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Title: Any truth to this?
Post by: Kosh on November 01, 2009, 08:51:18 am
Granted it is from last year,  but still..... (http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=695916)


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In a recent series of ads aimed at school children, a leading British energy company has assigned a controversial summer project: police their family's global-warming crimes.

Launched last week by NPower -- the country's fourth-largest provider -- the campaign is part of a larger program to educate children about global warming and the wasteful habits that might exacerbate it.


Fact or fiction?
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on November 01, 2009, 08:58:17 am
Complete fact.
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Narvi on November 01, 2009, 09:10:50 am
What's so implausible about it?

Didn't they use to assign recycling reports to students as well? How is this any different?
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: NGTM-1R on November 01, 2009, 03:51:03 pm
Hey, it's perfectly reasonable. Their parents probably won't be around when the ice caps melt and the country floods, we gotta hold them accountable for the disasters while we can.
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Liberator on November 01, 2009, 04:30:59 pm
Sounds a lot like the secret police indoctrinating children to inform on they're parents to me.

Why does the environment need secret police?
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: NGTM-1R on November 01, 2009, 08:42:51 pm
Because the kids are still gonna be here when the environment goes to **** due to what their parents did, and their parents aren't.
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: iamzack on November 01, 2009, 08:51:21 pm
Sounds a lot like the secret police indoctrinating children to inform on they're parents to me.

Why does the environment need secret police?

Oh, please. The kids aren't reporting their family to an authority. Clearly the kids are just being told to inform their families about what they learn about being environmentally friendly. There's nothing secret policey about this at all.
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 01, 2009, 08:51:47 pm
Sounds a lot like the secret police indoctrinating children to inform on they're parents to me.

Why does the environment need secret police?

Not this Hitler Youth crap again... :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: mxlm on November 01, 2009, 10:12:33 pm
Sounds a lot like the secret police indoctrinating children to inform on they're parents to me.

Liberator, my...sources...tell me that, well, if you want to live, you need to leave. Now. Don't delay; not for packing, not for friends, not for family. As soon as you read this, flee. Flee the country. Flee for a nation with which we do not have an extradition treaty; Iran would be ideal.

Otherwise, on your own head be the consequences.
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Liberator on November 02, 2009, 12:13:49 am
 :wakka:
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Narvi on November 02, 2009, 01:11:36 am
Uneconomical bulbs?

Report them... to the climatechangastapo.
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: TrashMan on November 02, 2009, 01:19:06 am
ZILENCE!!!!
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Liberator on November 02, 2009, 02:34:58 am
/badgermanaccent

"PAPERZ PLEAZE!!"
"I WILL HAVE YOR PAPERZ OR YOU WILL NUT LIKE ME VERY MUCH!"
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Locutus of Borg on November 02, 2009, 03:20:57 pm
The minitrue does not approve of this thread
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on November 02, 2009, 03:38:28 pm
Off to room 101 please where you will meet my pump action housebrick.
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: McCall on November 03, 2009, 05:56:03 pm
WTF?!?!?!?!?

http://climatecops.com/

They even threw in a cartoon polar bear! Could possibly they lay it on any thicker?
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Flipside on November 03, 2009, 05:58:43 pm
'My parents are wasting resources on pointless toys and leisure items!' says Jimmy, before plugging in his I-Pod, pulling out his mobile phone, strapping on his Nike trainers made by child-labour and wandering off down the street....
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: McCall on November 03, 2009, 06:21:19 pm
So very messed up. That Climate Cops thing makes me want to give up recycling.

(Only kidding)
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Liberator on November 03, 2009, 06:31:16 pm
ZOMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!  THE EARTH IS GOING TO TURN INTO A GIANT BALL OF FIRE!
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: BloodEagle on November 03, 2009, 06:31:35 pm
WTF?!?!?!?!?

http://climatecops.com/

They even threw in a cartoon polar bear! Could possibly they lay it on any thicker?

Crappy video is crappy.  :blah:

Also, racial diversity ftw.  :drevil:
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: NGTM-1R on November 03, 2009, 06:33:18 pm
Because the kids are still gonna be here when the environment goes to **** due to what their parents did, and their parents aren't.

We gotta hold them responsible while we still can. :P
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Flipside on November 03, 2009, 06:38:23 pm
They've been born into a wasteful society, they are just as guilty as their parents of not understanding the balance. If it were suggested that products that waste energy or encourage poverty were banned, then all their toys, clothes and past-times would take a massive hit, and they'd be the first in line complaining about it.

Society has a cake and eat it mentality, and telling kids 'it's all your parents' fault' is not only a terrible bit of scapegoating, but it also encourages young people not to pay attention to their own wasteful activities.
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Locutus of Borg on November 03, 2009, 06:54:47 pm
Let us start a new one then

Blame your kids!
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Flipside on November 03, 2009, 07:00:58 pm
A better idea would be to blame ourselves, and stop pointing fingers at other people. In truth, the whole social level of environment awareness is mostly an attempt to make us feel guilty anyway, as one comedian put it, once you've looked at large industries, you'll realise that local recycling is like bringing a dustpan and brush to an Earthquake site.
Title: Re: Any truth to this?
Post by: Scotty on November 03, 2009, 07:12:31 pm
Let us start a new one then

Blame your kids!

BLAME CANADAAAAA! (cheery jingle)