Netflix is accused of 'eco-tragedy porn'

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That article is behind a paywall.

Unfortunately the charge is all too easy to believe. In 1958, Disney created the myth that lemmings mass suicide over cliffs, which spread like wildfire and became a "known fact" throughout the World, and picked up an Academy Award. Only decades later was it learned they had drove the lemmings over the cliff en masse themselves. So it wouldn't surprise me if someone in this business was trying to follow the example of these grifters hoping to create a similar cultural impact. If as the headline suggests the crew had something to do with it and weren't simply opportunistically taking advantage of polar bear predation to spin their own story.