Except Peck doesn't exactly seem to be ultraistic. It very likely was a threat to the environment, but the matter falls under the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, _not the EPA. And getting one guy in a hardhat to shut down sensitive equipment like that takes it from overstepping his bounds to wanton endangerment.
If anyone wants to see a bunch of dorks get way to into the matter here is a thread from SF Debris forum that it very neat. Peck certainly is part of that juvenile "snobs vs slobs" thing all the SNL cast who made Ghostbusters used regularly. However I don't think it was as indicative of anti-environmentalism as people think. Him being EPA was more incidental to the overall "government oversight sucks and hurts small business" attitude of the film which IS reactionary. doesn't Peck also tell the officer to shoot them if they get in the way?
Cute earth-day skit Ramos did back in the day, just to counterbalance Ghostbuster's treatment of the EPA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzivWmGsGbc
Except Peck doesn't exactly seem to be ultraistic. It very likely was a threat to the environment, but the matter falls under the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, _not the EPA. And getting one guy in a hardhat to shut down sensitive equipment like that takes it from overstepping his bounds to wanton endangerment.
If anyone wants to see a bunch of dorks get way to into the matter here is a thread from SF Debris forum that it very neat. Peck certainly is part of that juvenile "snobs vs slobs" thing all the SNL cast who made Ghostbusters used regularly. However I don't think it was as indicative of anti-environmentalism as people think. Him being EPA was more incidental to the overall "government oversight sucks and hurts small business" attitude of the film which IS reactionary. doesn't Peck also tell the officer to shoot them if they get in the way?
Cute earth-day skit Ramos did back in the day, just to counterbalance Ghostbuster's treatment of the EPA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzivWmGsGbc