This is environmentalism jumping the shark:
Click image above to play the game
I don’t know where to begin, except to say that when we see things like this, we should complain loudly and incessantly. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has crossed a line beyond science, beyond decency, and beyond rational thought.
This is what you get after pressing “start”:
The screen above says: When you’re done, click on the (skull and crossbones) to find out what age you should die at so you don’t use more than your fair share of Earth’s resources!
Hat tip to CallonJim who writes:
This “kids” games at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Tell’s kids depending on their magical “carbon footprint” how long they should live?
The actual title is “Professor Schpinkee’s Greenhouse Calculator – find out when you should die!”
The thing I find amazing is the average foot print is 24.6 tonnes of CO2, which calculates out to 9.3 years old! Where it tells the child “YOU SHOULD DIE AT THE AGE 9.3!” Guess what age this kids games is marketed to? That’s right, 9 year olds.
What is most disgusting about this is that ABC ignores their own published Code of Practice
In section 2.12 they talk about content for children:
2.12 Content for Children. In providing enjoyable and enriching content for children, the ABC does not wish to conceal the real world from them. It can be important for the media, especially television, to help children understand and deal with situations which may include violence and danger. Special care should be taken to ensure that content which children are likely to watch or access unsupervised should not be harmful or disturbing to them.
I venture that any child who takes this carbon footprint test “unsupervised” without mommy and daddy around, and who may be old enough to read, but not old enough to understand he/she is being brainwashed by an agenda, would be “disturbed” find they should die at age nine, since just clicking through with default choices gives you that age.
Here is where you can contact the ABC and give them an inbox full of your opinion. This kind of propaganda needs to be removed.
http://www.abc.net.au/contact/contactabc.htm
UPDATE: There is a row developing in the Austrailian press over this.
UPDATE2: The New York Post highlights this site on June 1st with the headline “Enviro Mental Institution“
If my theology is correct, one day the earth worshipers/human haters WILL have the earth to themselves for a while. I doubt they will like it much though.
Did I miss something on the science behind the calculator portion? It says the ecologically sustainable level of CO2 is 3 tonnes a year. How in the world did they come up with that figure? And shouldn’t their answer be dependent on the number of people on the planet too instead of just a constant?
would not take australians take on global warming seriously: they are by far the most fanatical and misinformed = sheep. They will also be spending the most which will probably collapse their economy by 2030 when global temps will be -30C
also it seems May is coldest ever? temps plummet to -1.5C
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=3053#comment-255421 entry by D archibald with calculated temps 250MB check in case provisional data
hmmmm … pink floyd pig (or Animal Farm pig if you prefer), professor (commie) schPINKeee…. me thinks someone had a sense of irony in the creation of this page.
At least I hope it’s irony…
Holy cow! I should have died when I was just a wee bairn – 3.8 years! Oh well, guess I’ll go take my Humvee to the airport and fly to Los Angeles for a double cheeseburger. Yeehaw!
This is reminiscent of Hamas television in its bias and downright corruption of the truth. The producers should be fired and a public apology aired by ABC. There will never be another generation of legitimate scientists if the kids are brainwashed with this crap,
They forgot to include the number of times that you have exhaled each day so that would certainly shorten my 4.6 years. I must repent because at 77 I have used up about 17 lives that someone else could have enjoyed though in a very Spartan manner.
I’m just curious, speaking as an evil forester who has planted or caused to be planted tens of millions of trees, what’s the carbon footprint of the ABC Corp? Do they use energy? If so, how much? Do they plant trees? If so, how many?
While we’re at it, what’s the carbon footprint of the New York Times? How many metric tonnes of newsprint do they sell? According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations the NYT dispenses 1,077,256 copies daily and 1,476,400 on Sundays. Considering the cellulosic carbon weight per copy, and the carbon budget of distribution (they transport their newspapers all over the world), not to mention the C-budget of manufacturing the newsprint, and the loss of carbon fixation from the clearcuts in Canada to make the paper pulp, I’d say the NYT carbon footprint is pretty hefty.
Maybe the ABC Corp and the NYT should be dead. Nothing personal, mind you, but for the good of the planet and all. In fact, the entire TV and newsprint industries should probably be killed. We have nothing to lose doing that, IMHO. Regardless of their carbon footprint.
Anthony: The Austalian Broadcasting Corporation has crossed a line beyond science, beyond decency, and beyond rational thought.
How about a little awe and respect here for our (my) national broadcaster, Anthony?
This is what they do best.
Mr. Watts, am I “banned from your site”? Most of the 31 one responses here, after I wrote my little “Prayer” when there were “0” responses, are a heck of of lot more critical than I was, “Sorry if I offended you”.
REPLY: No you aren’t banned, but the automated spam filter sometimes removes comments indiscriminately based on certain words without looking at context. Since I get hundreds of SPAM messages a day, I can’t always sort out wheat from chaff. I don’t know what your post was about.
Evan:
Yes, Evan, I too am one of those liberal apostates. Sadly, Liberalism – even Fabian Socialism – as a big tents have fallen on bad times. Liberalism and the older, more moderate Fabian-style Socialism are being hijacked by nihilistic and misanthropic ideologues with a savior complex. Their vainglory is unlimited and they seek to galvanize the guileless and unsuspecting into an assault on a proxy foe that is just as empty and anecdotal as the Bastille.
They go about wearing Che Guavara shirts, apropos of nothing. They espouse Art Bell-level nut theories (like the Rosie O’Donnell “Truther” syndrome) as though no one would ever call them on it.
I interviewed for an afternoon with an enviro outfit here in Austin a few years back. I was subjected to some of the most inane soapboxing and grandstanding ever. Bush Eats Babies, 9/11 Truthers (it was an “Inside Job” you see) … I forget some of the rest. The inmates were running the asylum.
I *do* hope we can somehow defeat them sometime soon, but get on Daily Kos or Dem. Underground and the situation looks pretty grim.
Schwarze Tulpe:
Yes, the 500M types are loathsome. Why can’t they just go first, eh? Oh, I see, that wouldn’t work…. Shades of Pol Pot with those folks.
Gentlemen, you all lack ambition! I maxxed all of my CO2 allowances and I found my life almost ended before it began, at 1.1 years.
It dawned on me: CO2 is the original sin of environmentalism. We are all guilty of this sin and therefore, either through blood or indulgences, we must seek atonement for this original sin against Gaia.
China’s exempt, however. And funny, China’s run by commies. So tell me again, who rigged this circus? Uber-socialist Maurice Strong, right? The Canuckistani who’s hanging out in China now? He’s Al Gore’s buddy, right?
light bulb turns on inside head
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/china-culprit-us-created-global-warming
…. At times like this I think of what that old Jewish Concentration camp survivor once said.
He said… ” If somebody says they want to kill you….. Believe them.”
…. Well they’re tellin’ us.
It is so sad and so stupid.
The message is that you are not welcome to this world; you are a burden and will continue to be a burden until you die.
And this is open for everybody to read on the net. It is for children, for depressed persons for other stupid people and so on. I hope that someone can talk the authors to responsibility.
The oldest you can live before you live forever is 96.2 at 2.4 tons. With 2.3 tons you live forever. Seems quite a difference to me…
From now on I am going to go around leaving Carbon footprints everywhere I can.
I will deliberately use charcoal cooking beads, put charcoal filters into my shoes and drink as much carbonated drinks as I can..
In fact, this weekend, my mates and me, will be sitting around a wood fired BBQ, munching on big fat Pork sausages and burgers, with plenty of fried onions.
To top it off, we’ll all be washing it down with plenty of Beers that have stacks of Co2 gas in them.
And if that lot, doesn’t piss off those Fw*t Greenies at the ABC, then imagine the look on their faces as all that CO2 & Methane gas comes out of our ArseH*oles…
Cheers
Aqua Fyre
“The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has crossed a line beyond science, beyond decency, and beyond rational thought.”
Not only ABC. You could add hundreds to the list.
The level of preposterousness of this charade ought to convey even to the most diehard AGW believers what a kook train they’ve been riding on.
LOL! I just played the game and I’m proud to say I died a sudden bloody death at age 2.1!
But the message of this twisted game is that to live long you have to
1. Walk or bike everywhere
2. Never use a car
3. Never fly anywhere
4.
This not my day!
4. live under a bridge
5. share the bridge with 100 bums
6. use no energy
7. use no electricity
8. recycle your waste
9. eat grass
10. Spend no money
Actually there’s a place where we have this.
It’s called Darfur!
Now, just for fun,
I’m going to pretend I’m Al Gore:
…Dead at 1.2 years.
This is what my tax dollar pays for?
Someone just shoot me : )
This is the face of evil showing the times to come if the global warming religion is not checked. The Czech president knows this and sees this much like the communist methods of old. Thanks to Anthony and this site for alerting the public.
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I attempted to have a letter published about this abc site in the fairfax media some time ago; with no luck; the abc may be the front-runner in presenting AGW with religious fervour and bias, but it is aided and abetted by certain sections of the msm. This website is beyond the pale and I hope whoever is responsible has their livelihood ‘blown up’, just like a certain little pig.