O…M…G – Video explodes skeptical kids in bloodbath

I took a BA flight from LA to London a few weeks back. First Class. Sitting two rows in front of me was ….. Richard Curtis. Quite the regular traveller according to the cabin staff. I had a look at the 10:10 website but there’s no mention of how regularly travelling thousands of miles in First Class cuts your carbon use by 10%. Perhaps he used to do it more often than he does now. I hope someone keeps a record somewhere.
However, Fanny will have no problem with Richard’s frequent flying and multiple ownership of (seriously) prime real estate. Provided you are “actively tackling climate change” like Richard – or at least making movies about how other people should – you get your special exemption. Sometimes, if you want to save the planet, you just have to accept the fact that you have a gigantic carbon footprint. As long as you are a believer, that’s all that matters.

It has been pulled.
Now available here.

Ughh!

Someone has reuploaded it here:

Pulled by 10/10 but a copy here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSTLDel-G9k&feature=player_embedded

From Graeme on September 30, 2010 at 8:49 pm:

So what was the wholesale slaughter of millions of people in the death camps of Nazi europe in the 1940s – if not evil?

If you are of the Malthusian bent, you may consider it to have been an interesting start. The war did reveal many limits on resources that were previously considered plentiful. Yes, since then we have discovered more sources, developed increased reserves, located alternate resources while increasing efficiencies. But the time element was strongly revealed, resources that will be developed and made available in ten years are worthless when the demand must be met within a month. Thus the crisis capacity of the supply system needs be considered, how much is available right when it is needed. Our society is currently very vulnerable to crisis-based shortages, both immediate and prolonged.
It can also be seen that perhaps an improper metric is being applied. Energy Returned On Energy Invested (EROEI) does not properly reveal the whole picture. A better gauge is Resources Returned On Resources Invested (RRORI). For each life, relatively little resources were invested in the removal, with far greater resources returned to the Common Pool for use by society, in time frames ranging from those were being consumed in the short term during the crisis to those they would have consumed over their lifetime. In this way, society had benefited. However, the selection process was flawed. Some were saved for labor, for which more efficient and less troublesome machines were available. While strong backs may be considered a resource, strong minds also deserve consideration. Large quantities of intellectual resources were discarded based on an agenda. But still, with greater resources on hand there can be greater investments in education which will yield greater intellectual resources, and there were sufficient amounts for the crisis of the moment therefore it was acceptable to allow for the development time.
Likewise, we should consider Waste Saved Over Waste Produced (WSOWP). Think about the pollution one generates over a lifetime, including greenhouse gas emissions, and the conversion of resources from forms that may be readily used by society into less desirable forms. For example, steel suitable for producing vehicles for mass transportation that instead becomes old cans in a landfill. It is not hard to imagine such examples. Think of all such waste that could be saved.
The current crises we face, both real and soon-to-be-realized potential ones, demand consideration. We have many “Peaks” coming to a head at once. The Climate Crisis is also extremely important, as there is a very short time frame in which to act to avert catastrophe of a very disruptive chaotic nature. It has become clear that the standard response of the common people is sloth, they find it too bothersome to act and prefer to do nothing and wait, assuming the situation will either resolve itself without any personal impacts or the results will be a mere nuisance of less personal cost than that of active prevention. Therefore, the time of decisive action is upon us. Those who are both intellectually capable and can achieve sufficient emotional detachment to accept the science, to think logically about the issues involved, can consider and accept the solutions that will need to be pursued. It is now manifestly clear we cannot wait for the education of the young to bring about the required acceptance, as there are many not receiving the materials and many more refusing to accept enlightenment, and the time to act is short. Thus there shall be those who are enlightened who will willingly be part of the solution, and those who will be made part of the solution.
As to this video, yes it is humorous, not meant to taken seriously. Such work does serve a purpose. For example, during WWII Warner Brothers was doing their share of war propaganda. There were funny cartoons produced that are considered shocking and offensive by modern sensibilities. Yet think of the great benefit they provided. Children could see Bugs Bunny hurl grenades at those Japs, and laugh while imagining their fathers and brothers doing the same, fighting with Bugs against the yellow menace, and not have to face the reality of the dirty work. Those critical of this video should consider how it might serve the same useful purpose.
For those who have read this far and found this to be a refreshing discourse, a reasoned and logical examination of circumstances that must be addressed is a dispassionate manner, perhaps even find that it has intellectual merit, congratulations, you have made the list. Perhaps someday you will find out what that means. And remember, there is no evil, but there is necessity.

As I said above:
“I think 10 – 10 should ask for it’s money back because they have been well and truly shafted.”

I found it funny. The writer got away with selling this to that campaign group? Unbelievable – as it shows AGW promoters as smug psychopathic murderers.
BTW, they noticed already that they’ve been had and took down the video, i had to find a copy on youtube…

As a guide for them on how to mix (sorta) funny and serious they should have studied this advert for WaterAid.

SH says:
October 1, 2010 at 6:21 am
“Most teachers would indeed love such a red button. We all would.”
No; only the psychopathic amongst us. The others have a capability called “empathy”. Read up on it – you’ll be surprised!

The essential point of the video is to label a minority group as a danger to the majority and then ‘recommend’ elimination for the greater good.
I recall having previously seen a piece of propaganda with exactly the same message.
It was a prewar item from Germany in which the stereotypical facial features of a person of semitic background were gradually transformed into the features of a rodent. It was made clear that as vermin they were a threat to the racial purity of the majority such that elimination was proposed.
I’m sure the makers thought it quite a lark at the time and I can imagine the scenes in the production studio being identical during the creation of both that item and now this one.
The trouble is that with the benefit of hindsight we see that it truly was a precursor and represented something deep, dark and evil in the psyche of that society.
It is recognised within revolutionary circles that it only needs a small number of determined individuals (10,000 or so I believe) supported by lots of useful fools to overturn an entire nation and up to 1933 Germany was essentially democratic.
It is also recognised that a big lie if repeated often enough will prevail.
We need very few to be ‘inspired’ or ‘turned’ by the belief in a threat to society at large from so called ‘deniers’ for enough of a groundswell to develop for us to go down the same track as many past tyrannies.
The evidence is that the producer is already under the delusion that deniers present a clear and present danger to others. How many others have already formed that view and may be willing to group together to present a serious threat of widespread violence or political manipulation.
Amusing or not, this video is not a trivial phenomenon.

TomFP says:
October 1, 2010 at 6:02 am
“David Wendt – you do misunderstand me. I mean that 10:10 decided to produce a sanctimonious video, and commissioned Curtis to do it. Curtis accepted, stuck his tongue in his cheek, and produced a video he knew was poisonous to their cause. ”
Exactly what i’m thinking. Man, he pulled a real stunt there and probably even got paid for it!