Kill the children for Mother Gaia, episode CVIII

Environmental ad from Act Responsible

I guess blowing children up won't get them all, or something. (Via Don Surber)

This is the latest in a series of violent adverts by Environmental organizations, exploiting children in ever more hysterical appeals to us to shut up and do what you're told.  What's interesting is just how much of this is going on, and how ineffective it is.

Donna Laframboise rolls out a set of gone-but-not-forgotten gems from groups ranging from GreenPeace to the UK Government.  What unites them is their use of violent imagery, and their exploitation of children:

It is being alleged that conservatives are now ascendant because they’ve done something underhanded. They’ve invoked the politics of fear. (See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.)


That’s a good one. I mean, how else does one possibly describe that outrageous 2006 US television advert in which global warming is represented as a train about to run over a little girl? It’s only 33 seconds long. If you haven’t watched it in a while, it’s worth re-visiting.

It sure is.



UK residents, your taxes funded this monstrosity:



Don't make the cute bunny cry, you mean old Deniers!  And GreenPeace brings the subtlety :



The kids will grow up some day, and hunt you down.  Hey GreenPeace, why not just have them kill their parents in their beds tonight?  Come on, guys, where's your sense of urgency?

Or how about the Build-A-Bear video showing Santa's North Pole melting, and Chistmas being canceled?



Anthony Watts has even more.    Eric Raymond looks at the mindset that's produced all this smug Eco snuff porn, and sees something worse than your run of the mill Watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside):

There’s a mind-boggling disconnect from the feelings of ordinary human beings implied here, a kind of moral and emotional incompetence. It’s as though the 10:10 campaigners were so anesthetized by the secretions of their own zealotry that they became incapable of understanding how anyone not living deep inside their reality-tunnel would react.

In its own way, I think this is actually a more frightening possibility than the obvious hypothesis that these people are conscious eco-Stalinists who let the mask slip. C.S. Lewis has an apposite thing to say about idealistic tyrants: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

Fortunately, it's marketing FAIL.  Many fewer people use the term "environmentalist" to describe themselves, which is a reflection of "Climate Apocalypse Fatigue".  The Green Movement has been shouting too loudly, and for too long, about too many "crises" that have turned out to be nothing of the sort (alar, anyone?).  And so people tune them out, even when cute little girls are shown about to be run over by trains.  Or especially then.

The next step is satire.  Maybe along these lines.

Vote for Cap-And-Trade, or we'll kill the dog.  And your kids.  Or something.