Thursday, January 24, 2008

Climate change denial adverts

Interesting to note that most of these examples of climate change denial adverts come from the motor industry in one form or another.

My fave is No. 5 - surely someone at EDF (or their ad agency) ought to have recognised the wonderful irony of using an image of the Easter Island statues?

CATEGORY - PR COVERAGE - FoE

Also known as 'backscratching #101'.

Noticed a surge in sign-ups, and lo, there is a reason; this nice plug from FoE in their 'Tip of the Day', a worthwhile daily.

Happy to return the compliment.

A debate worth having

I'm copping out here: SHOULD WE STOP CARING ABOUT GROWTH?

From the tag I have given it you'll see that it's an issue that needs focusing upon: (Eco)nomy vs. (when the naive hope would be 'with') (Eco)logy (well, Environment, but I'm playing with common spellings).

I don't know enough to really comment sensibly. The two do seem relatively hard to reconcile, especially in the face of growing populations, 3rd World countries turning 1st (is there a second?) and watching the coverage of Davos so hard on the heels of Bali. Apparently Al Gore is lobbing up.

So yes, a debate worth having. The conclusions will be... interesting.

I just hope they are worthwhile and don't represent an exercise in hamster-like wheel spinning that only serves those within the wheel who at least get paid to talk and report on the talking.

I just heard Aunty's reporter call them the 'Great and good'. Hmmn. The cars looked great and the bubbly looked good at all the parties, for sure.