The British environmental group 10:10, devoted to cutting carbon emissions 10 percent each year, created a message video that was a bit too explosive for its own good. The gist: any poor sap who fails to go along with the 10 percent cut, be it a schoolchild or a soccer star, is blown to smithereens. It’s been pulled from YouTube, and it has angered allies like Bill McKibben. The video can still be seen here; the bloodletting is graphic (if intended to be comical), so use your judgment before playing. [%comments]
Explosive Climate-Change Video a Bit Too Explosive
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If you grew up with Monty Python and Spike Milligan then this is a hilarious video. I love it. If you didn’t then you won’t get it. To help may I suggest you look up youtube, Monty Python’s “Salad Days”, or the Knight fight in the Holy Grail or all manner of clips. God, can you all just get a sense of humour will you. It’s not meant to be serious. Unless of course you think the Rabbit attacks in the Holy Grail was an attack on Christianity then there is nothing I can do to help you.
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You most probably think that the parrot owner should of been offered a complete refund with no question as an example of excellent customers service.
I enjoy provocative commercials and arguments, but I don’t think this one is getting the point across. The idea should be that if you don’t combat climate change, you are killing yourself. Instead, the message I got was “climate change would be easy to take care of if we just killed everyone who doesn’t agree with us.”
Well, if you think overpopulation is the problem…
Yes blowing up humans with explosives is abhorrent. And we are rightfully repulsed by even artificial special effects that simulate it.
But reality of Terrorism and IEDs has come to London, Paris, NYC, Moscow, Madrid, and Berlin.
Would that Extreme Islamic Terrorists were so condemned instead of imaginary eco terrorists with the same passion.
In the past 30 years, 95% of world wide terrorism comes from one source and it is not the Ecology movement.
Not a funny video at all. It was a message being sent to the non-believers; convert or die!
Idealists with agendas have begun to get real power in the UK. We should all be aware of what they are willing to do and combat them at every turn.
- 600 Spontaneous Wild Fires in Russia this summer.
- A drought destroyed wheat crop
- Pakistan flooded 20%
- Ice Sheet breakaway
That’s why they call it “Global” warming.
What do you expect to happen if Southern and Western farmland gets hit with 600 wild fires in America?
A Shutdown of Coal and Tarsand.
It’s time for the oil and coal industry to HEDGE into Green Technology. As much as 10% a year would be prudent.
“If you didn’t then you won’t get it.”
It’s not a matter of not “getting it.” It’s a matter of “getting it and understanding the underlying message that the creators didn’t realize was really, really ugly, and still don’t, even after it was pointed out to them.”
Sorry, Woq, but you’re the one missing it. There absolutely is no satirical component to the video. Monty Python sketches clearly send up the snobbish, the overbearing, the self-satisfied, the doltish. In this one, those blown up are meek, quite, and unassuming. Such are not pretentious enough to be the objects of satire. The are, however, the object of bullying.