{"id":10046,"date":"2010-10-04T17:51:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T21:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10046"},"modified":"2010-10-04T17:51:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T21:51:25","slug":"climate-change-evangelists-blowing-up-the-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/climate-change-evangelists-blowing-up-the-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change evangelists blowing up the opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A British ad for a climate change campaign shows corporate workers, a famous soccer player and even school children being blown up for not agreeing to cut their carbon emissions, a blood-splattering display that has drawn anger from critics and sheepish embarrassment from its supporters.<\/p>\n

The short film, “No Pressure,” which promotes the U.K.’s 10:10 climate change campaign, debuted on the campaign’s website Friday. It depicts a school teacher, a corporate boss and a soccer coach asking their respective students, employees and players to participate in the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon emissions. Despite being told there is “no pressure” to join the cause, those who say they don’t plan to participate are immediately blown up by their superiors with the push of a button; the others are left standing in awe and covered in bloody remains.<\/p>\n

he 10:10 campaign said that the video was intended to revive the issue of climate change in the media in a way that would make people laugh. To a degree, it said, it succeeded.<\/p>\n

“Many people found the resulting film extremely funny, but unfortunately some didn’t and 10:10 would like to apologize to everybody who was offended by the film,” 10:10 said in a statement Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It wasn\u2019t extremely <\/em>funny; for it to be extremely <\/em>funny, it would have had to have had Lord Moncton<\/a> blowing up Al Gore and David Suzuki.<\/p>\n

Here is the less than extremely <\/em>funny version:<\/p>\n

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