Friday 17 June 2011

Climate Porn: Drowning Dogs and Exploding Children

In 2009 the UK government spent £6m on a TV propaganda campaign aimed at families. Energy usage, it explained in dulcet tones, is tantamount to murder. Those who consume energy, and create a heinous carbon footprint, will cause the seas to rise and drown us. A cartoon dog disappears beneath the waves, and a child with beautiful eyes sees how wicked it is to use energy.



Courtesy of Treehugger.com and Youtube, you can watch the most disgraceful example of propaganda since Goebbels:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/climate-change-tv-ad-investigation-scaring-kids-video.php

Running a close second is a UK TV advert by 10:10 Ltd. With wry sense of humour (/sarc off/) and high production values, the murder of citizens reluctant to moderate their carbon footprints is portrayed. A button is pressed, some sci-fi-fantasy subcutaneous bomb explodes inside the victims, and we the viewers laugh nervously at the black humour of filmmakers who would threaten the recalcitrant with violence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbJTNN8oPTs

These Greenshirts.... they wouldn't, would they? They couldn't, could they? But.... they'd like to, wouldn't they?

1 comment:

  1. hahaha, the new brent thread eh,

    g/day knackers, nice to see that you still haven't frozen to death in the stifling heat.

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