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Now this just pisses me off. Some environmentalist whackjobs with 0 reference to reality obtained government funding in australia to produce a TV show and website aimed at children, featuring essentially terrorist tactics to try and turn children into vegetarian carless low income charity donating crazies.

So what do you think? Is scaring the **** out of our children with tastless web games the way of the future? Or should we have the wombats eat the people what produced this?

The quiz referenced in the article:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/planetslayer/greenhouse_calc.htm

The article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/03/abc_planet_slayer/

Oz TV advises CO2-emitting children to die early

By Andrew Orlowski → More by this author
Published Tuesday 3rd June 2008 16:03 GMT

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?

Gaia's revenge on Reg reporter

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...


Be miserable - gain Eternal life!

...and eternal life is attained.

(Where presumably you're surrounded by 72 naked George Monbiots. A Guardian-reader's idea of paradise?)

The "Planet-Slayer" game occupied me for about 3mins.

I shoulda died 25 years ago.






Edited, Jun 4th 2008 2:38am by Elinda

I'm as big of a proponent of the "go green" philosophy as any other, and I think this is beyond stupid.

I should have died at 2.2 years old.

I was doing pretty well till it asked how much money I spent last year. Not sure what that has to do with my carbon footprint, but meh.

It's Australia. I assume you found this while trying to dig up the latest wombat dirt?

Heh, my first thought was, "Good riddance to bad rubbish." Then I had time to think about it and then thought, "Those poor poor Ozzie bastards." Algore foisting himself on hapless children across the world, his bloated face floating across the television screen, frightening little kids everywhere with the global warming boogeyman.

/shakes his head

Meanwhile we are deprived of wonderful Leo Decaprio lines like, "I'm king of the world!" because he's on his knees sucking off Algore cack. It's kinda hard to speak clearly when you're swallowing a load of carbon based Tipper batter.

"Immmmph bwa kwing uff duh wuwrld! <slurp> Mmmmph! <gag>"

Totem

Me too!

I do feel sorry for those polluting meat-eating, money-spending, house-living, car-driving, planet-haters though. They're probably all republicans, secretly.

Nepths, ready move to a commune in Venezuela?

I hear the petrol is cheap over there.