Got Blood?

The enviroweenies have recently switched their favorite color from green (as in grass and leaves) to red (as in blood). Apparently, all those images of clear skies and green fields just weren't getting the attention of the carbon class, and bucolic countrysides just didn't scare earth abusers into changing their evil ways. So it was time to ramp up the propaganda. And what better way to do that than to blow up a few schoolchildren?

In a pseudo-documentary pro-zealotry video entitled, ironically, No Pressure, a United Kingdom group attempts to persuade schoolchildren to reduce their carbon emissions by blowing up a few of the little darlings who didn't get on board fast enough. In its four minutes, the plan goes as follows: A school teacher, a business magnate, and some football (soccer) players make speeches and pictorial presentations showing how modern human beings are destroying the planet and causing global warming by riding in cars and using old-fashioned lightbulbs. But just in case they decide not to take the Ecoweenie pledge to return to cave-dwelling, a few of the recalcitrant little buggers are blown to bits by the activation of a red button on the teacher's desk.

Now I must admit that watching children get blown up, complete with flying body parts and geysers of blood is great fun. But I'm not sure it will convince anyone to buy into Al Gore's "Earth Is Unbalanced" philosophy. While watching children get dismembered and exsanguinated in a manner worthy of Quentin Tarantino is a real hoot, the message of lowering your carbon footprint seems to get lost in all the hilarity.

Sadly, there was an outcry from stodgy, humorless adult earth-killing carbon guzzlers. This resulted in the video being pulled. The producers of the video, 10:10 (shorthand for 10% carbon reduction by the end of 2010) are appalled. Oh, not about blowing up schoolkids, but rather about how the public simply can't see that using a gallon of gasoline is exactly the same as turning a child into a jigsaw puzzle, with lots of pretty red blood to put an exclamation mark on it.

Inevitably, the producers, via their spokesman Eugene Harvey, issued the standard we're-sorry-if-we-offended-anyone non-apology apology. Says good old Harvey: "This media coverage for this film was not the kind of publicity for the cause of saving the climate that we wanted (yeah, I'll bet it wasn't). We certainly didn't mean to do anything to distract from all the efforts of those in other organisations who are working so hard to secure effective action on climate change." In other words, the ends do justify the means, we unfortunately picked the wrong means--for now.

I'm going to assume 10:10 acted in good faith, and that in fact the video wasn't actually an ecoterrorist training film that accidentally got into the public domain. But it does demonstrate one truism--no thinking adult with an IQ above room temperature believes the ecohysteria about anthropomorphic global warming/climate change. So it is necessary to indoctrinate them while they're young, and find a way to make their parents irrelevant to their upbringing and thought development. And blowing up a few of the inattentive little bastards is not such a bad thing, either.

Meanwhile, the removal of the video from TV along with the non-apology has led to the video showing up on the internet. Millions of viewers who might never have seen it in the first place will now be watching it and forwarding it to their friends and contacts. Frankly, I'm not worried that it will actually convince any but the few crazed ecozealots who missed it the first time around. More likely, it will produce further revulsion in the hearts and minds of decent people who are daily assaulted by econuts demanding to know why they're not doing more to save the earth.

Of course, there's always that small group that actually enjoys watching little children get blown up for not doing what they're told. Like me, for instance. So just in case you've missed this Petit Guignol piece, here's the link: No Pressure. Knowing that not everyone has a cast-iron stomach, I chose the redacted, edited milder "PG" version. You're on your own if you want to see the really grisly "R" (for graphic violence) version.