I still can't believe that this video is for real, I keep expecting someone from 10:10 to appear and explain how it is just a publicity stunt and not to be taken seriously. Now whilst 10:10 and Richard Curtis are, I am sure, not really suggesting people should be blown up for not agreeing to go along with the policies of 10:10, they are just trying to get our attention, I wonder how they will feel when some eco-nut is inspired by this film to blow-up something or someone that they feel are not supporting 10:10. I hope this doesn't happen but there are some very odd people out there and 4x4s have been damaged by ecomentalists in the past 'coz they are destroying the planet'.
Incidentally "Getting your father to insulate the loft"; sexist?
I note that IN The Guardian 10:10 founder and Age of Stupid film maker Franny Armstrong 'joked':
'Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody's existence on this planet? Clearly we don't really think they should be blown up, that's just a joke for the mini-movie, but maybe a little amputating would be a good place to start?
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But why take such a risk of upsetting or alienating people, I ask her: "Because we have got about four years to stabilise global emissions and we are not anywhere near doing that. All our lives are at threat and if that's not worth jumping up and down about, I don't know what is."
"We 'killed' five people to make No Pressure – a mere blip compared to the 300,000 real people who now die each year from climate change," she adds.
Jamie Glover, the child-actor who plays the part of Philip and gets blown up, has similarly few qualms: "I was very happy to get blown up to save the world."'
Ah the certainties of the true believers, they are right and any one who does not believe is a 'denier' and deserves to lose a limb or at least a digit, if not be blown up. What delightful people, in earlier times I assume they would have been in favour of burning heretics at the stake.
"...the 300,000 real people who now die each year from climate change..."
ReplyDeleteOxfam keep coming out with this pish as well. Big posters were up around the city a while ago saying something like it.
Evidence people?
Who gets included in this 300,000?
Like every other green assertion I suppose it is a religious statement which requires no justification and may not be challenged.
I wouldn't mind so much if they hadn't captured the Leviathan State which is busy impoverishing us all on the basis of this nonsense on stilts.