Someone tell me this is a spoof

[jack]

I'm sorry for posting this late, and at all, but I was just gobsmacked. http://streams.cei.org/

"The Competitive Enterprise Institute has produced two 60-second television spots focusing on the alleged global warming crisis and the calls by some environmental groups and politicians for reduced energy use. The ads are airing in 14 U.S. cities from May 18 to May 28, 2006."

"There's something in these pictures you can't see. It's essential to life. You breathe it out. Plants breathe it in ... We call it Carbon Dioxide. Cee-oh-two ... Fuels that produce carbon dioxide have saved our world from a lifetime of back-breaking labour."

"Some poeple call Carbon Dioxide Pollution. We call it life."

All I can say is the "You breathe it out. Plants breathe it in." argument applies to bull shit too. Yes, bull shit is inevitable, and necessary, but that doesn't mean that covering the world in as much bull shit as possible would be nice or good or clever. I'm staggered at the amount of sense there isn't in that advert.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

You can bet your butt the people sponsoring the advert are buying self-sufficient houses up hills with their millions.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

That's it. I've had enough. What time is the next Turtle heading in any direction away from the human race?

[ilanin.livejournal.com]

It's a direct response to Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" which is, it seems, reaching a rather wider audience given the somewhat suprising numbers it's putting up in terms of box office sales.

The environmentalists are probably winning this one.