GRRRRRRRRRRR!
Posted on 06/03/2008 9:54:48 PM PDT by wafflehouse
Carbon Cult sickos are under fire for an interactive website that tells children they should die because they emit CO2.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "Planet Slayer" site invites young children to take a "greenhouse gas quiz", asking them "how big a pig are you?". At the end of the quiz, the pig explodes, and ABC tells children at "what age you should die at so you don’t use more than your fair share of Earth’s resources!"
It's one of a number of interactive features that "Get the dirt on greenhouse without the guilt trips. No lectures. No multinational-bashing (well, maybe a little...). Just fun and games and the answers to all your enviro-dilemas," ABC claims.
The site is aimed at 9-year olds. However even a "virtuous" rating (e.g. not owning a car and recycling) is outweighed by eating meat, or spending an average Aussie income - with the result that many 9-year olds are being told they've already outstayed their environmentally-compliant stay on the planet.
"Do you think it's appropriate that the ABC ... depict people who are average Australians as massive overweight ugly pigs, oozing slime from their mouths, and then to have these pigs blow up in a mass of blood and guts?" asked Senator Mitch Fifield in the Herald-Sun.
The state-sponsored broadcaster (why is that not a surprise?) defended the morbid quiz, with ABC managing director Mark Scott insisting "the site was not designed to offend certain quarters of the community but to engage children in environmental issues."
Which is eco-speak for frighten them witless. However, as the excellent science blog Watts Up With That points out, the site clearly breaches Australian broadcasting guidelines on "harmful or disturbing" content.
Meanwhile, the site's designers are revelling in the controversy:
"Thank God for outraged senators - you can't buy publicity like that," PlanetSlayer's "creative director" Bernie Hobbs crowed to the New York Post.
So how, according to ABC, does one appease the vengeful Death God, Gaia?
Your reporter doesn't own a car, lives in an apartment, and discovered he should have died aged 3.9 years. After a couple of run-throughs, it appears that eating meat is a major factor. But this is overshadowed by claiming a) very low earnings and b) spending what remains of one's pittance on organic food and "ethical investments".
Whether that's a life worth living is another question entirely. But the message from the Carbon Cult seems pretty clear: humans are a stain on the planet and should die; yet should they be permitted to live, they should live a life that's as miserable as possible.
When you fill in the environmentally-correct answers - something extraordinary happens. Look -
A negative carbon rating is achieved, the pig flies up to heaven...
...and eternal life is attained.
(Where presumably you're surrounded by 72 naked George Monbiots. A Guardian-reader's idea of paradise?)
So when should you have died, dear reader? Take the quiz and let me know - and we'll try and think of some creative way of illustrating it. (Suggestions welcome). ®
Nuts like these are dangerous and they are organized. They are chasing fictional, contrived bogeymen that do not exist. Human beings are just parasites that destroy the earth. In their minds, it is last day, and all our crystals are blinking, red-black. Report to the sleepshop or the Sandman will come. There is no Sanctuary, Runners will be eliminated by the Sandman.
just damn.
My advise: buy guns.
The first child that kills him/herself because of this garbage, the entire bunch should be put against the wall and SHOT!
GRRRRRRRRRRR!
I answered the questions by pigging out on everything. As long as you spend 30% of your income on ethical investments, you live forever.
Explains Al Gore, I guess....
What sick freaks.
According to this PoS, I should die at age 3.7...
It is my pleasure to continue living, hopefully to my three score and ten or even four score, using “more than my fair share” of resources for the entire time.
The @$$hats don’t get it - I own all the resources I can pay for and have the right to dispose of ‘em as I see fit. There is no “fair share.” The people who put up this site are enviro-commies who are unable to realize this fact.
I should have died when I was 1.4 years old.
hmm post birth abortion.
The Ivory Tower preached no children population control because by 2000 the world would starve to death.
In the modern world we have more than enough food for the world, so much we are burning it in cars for fuel.
This die so algore can have a limo is about power grabbing. Crisis means power for politicians.
Heeeeeeey!
It seems that they are getting more upset about a cartoon pig exploding than the fact the quiz encourages kids to kill themselves for the ‘good of the earth’.
To which I say to the genius who designed this little quiz: “You first!”
I’m betting that these scumbags were unenlightened kids before they saw “the light”. All of them would have been dead by now. Put up or shut up. They are all living on someone else’s carbon so let them assemble as a group and kill themselves. Don’t forget their kids or their parents because they are all living with someone else’s carbon also. Let them recreate Jonestown and then I might believe that they are sincere; but still ignorant idiots.
Have they approached al gore to plead with him to off himself? There are not enough carbon credits in the world to make up for the habits of that fat pig.
Took the quiz. I should die at age 4.1 (I’m 60 now). What a POS.
Just damn is right.
Hope Rush et al. cache this on their sites.
Yep it’s all about how the nutjubs want you to spend your money. I did the opposite of you and did the “best” on everything even lowest income. Spent 0 money to “ethical investments”. 28 years.
How about the methane emitters?
Bullets are cheaper and more satisfying.
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