by frog
The use of cute kids to sell products or ideas is questionable at the best of times, but I think this has to be the worst example of it I have ever seen. Watch as all-American cuties explain how the magic of coal can save America from the baddies and save the environment! Is there anything it can’t do?
Published in Environment & Resource Management | Media | Society & Culture by frog on Thu, May 18th, 2006
Tags: environment
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
So, you’re saying that environmentalists have never used this type of marketing? That images of cute children playing in natural settings haven’t been used here, in New Zealand, to advocate environmentally-friendly energy sources?
Pot, kettle, black.
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surely we’ve learnt to look past the spin!? each “side” will market as they please and thats fair enough. its legal (i assume). kids are not the issue. coal is. no point adding smoke to the smoke screen.
i posted a comment on their site which will no doubt be “excluded”. it read:
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this much is known: coal is dirty and finite, sequestration technology is emerging rather than proven.
question: why burn coal today and wait for proof tomorrow?
in all other “public health” fields, trials are mandatory. eg. a new drug must be supported by human trials to ensure risk free use. its illegal for pfizer/merck/etc to promote the use of a new drug before it has been approved.
surely the same “rules” apply???
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surely by now the public of the US have learnt that
coal-burning=smoke,
smoke +cities=smog,
children+smog=health problems for an entire generation of kids
If they don’t know enough about smog already, they should be able to work this one out! It’ll catch up with them very quickly.
Haven’t they had their own big mining disaster in Pennsylvania recently?
Maybe along with not being able to find healthy young people to volunteer for being shot up and coated in DU dust in Iraq, they’re having problems recruiting working class youth to go “doon t’mine “….. and develop coal dust psthisis (a lung disease of miners).
So many reasons not to use coal, so little willingness to accept finity of resources!
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“The use of cute kids to sell products or ideas is questionable at the best of times”
Did you even read the post Duncan Bayne?
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resistantsoy – I’d have thought so – especially with its implication that this is something environmentalists/the GPANZ haven’t done.
And frog – I thought ad hominems were above you.
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resistantsoy,
Yes, I did – did you understand mine?
What I meant was that the original poster was criticising the use of cute children in advertising – when environmental groups do exactly that themselves. This is somewhat hypocritical, don’t you think?
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I don’t see what the Greens’ blog has to do with these as yet unidentified environmental groups’ campaign. Any more than should we hold the ACT party acountable for Telecom’s deception of their customers – after all aren’t ACT the party of business? Perhaps the pot and the kettle are in diferent kitchens!
Regardless, thanks to the US crackdown on illegal immigrants, I think the actual funny of the site is enhanced by the thought of these pint sized coal proponents enjoying themselves when we put them back to work in the mines.
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Or as chimney sweeps…
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You think coal ads are bad – check this out: http://streams.cei.org/
CO2: we call it life
Found at http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic20368.html
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