My Inbox exploded with tips today, this one in particular. This unbelievably vile video from the 10:10 campaign takes the award for the most disgusting climate and carbon reduction video ever. It is in a class by itself, which is off the scale. See also Ryan Maue’s post below this one on the 350.org tie in for 10:10.
What were they thinking? They weren’t, because this is going to have the exact opposite effect they intended it to have. I don’t have words to describe my disgust with the video.
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO IMAGERY
Here is what they say about it on YouTube:
The1010Campaign | September 30, 2010http://www.1010global.org/no-pressure
Whippersnapping climate campaign 10:10 teams up with legendary comic screenwriter Richard Curtis – you know, Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, co-founded Comic Relief – and Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong to proudly present their explosive new mini-movie “No Pressure”. The film stars X-Files’ Gillian Anderson, together with Spurs players past and present – including Peter Crouch, Ledley King and David Ginola – with music donated by Radiohead. Shot on 35mm by a 40-strong professional film crew led by director Dougal Wilson, “No Pressure” celebrates everybody who is actively tackling climate change… by blowing up those are aren’t.
I know people will be upset by this, please keep your comments civil – Anthony
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UPDATE1:
Some people in comments whether this is some sort of horrible spoof. It appears to be direct from 10:10, as the URL highlighted in yellow below on the YouTube description links directly to the 10:10 promotional web page:
http://www.1010global.org/no-pressure
which is a subpage of their main website.
UPDATE2: They are so proud of this “mini-movie” they did a “behind the scenes” video of it.h/t to WUWT reader “scarlet pumpernickel”.
UPDATE3: Hot Topic (an AGW proponent site) in New Zealand thinks this video is “obviously effective“
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TomFP,
I had wondered about that, but I was assuming that not all of the posters here were American. Given it was written by the same guy who did Blackadder, you may well have hit the nail on the head.
Substitute any minority in the place of those who do not agree with 10:10 in this movie and it would constitute inciting others to hate.
Will charges be laid?
Anthony:
OK, my response was “over the top”. I thought that in a way, it hit the right button. My comparison between certain “sectarian violence” and what is shown in the video, I don’t think is entirely untrue. My worry is that, to put it in more mild terms, the video has the culpability of the old charge: “Incite to riot..” I think that if film video game makers are constrained to put, “Game includes violence and violent situations..” These “film makers” should have the same constraint.
In point of fact, why YouTube has not pulled this on “TOS” violation, somewhat stuns me. (Terms of Service.)
I hope that we can make this point, and as others point out….if we don’t, this may in the long run be done to the complete detriment of the AWG side. (For example, the local “peace groups” in Omaha NE, when I lived there (1980’s), announced they were going to bring in a speaker from the Soviet Embassy to “explain” how Korean Airlines Flight 007 was a “spy flight” and they had the right to shoot it down. The “peace groups” canceled that little exploit as soon as it EXPLODED on them, and then were “back peddling” to dis-avow association with the Soviet Union for a couple years thereafter.) Although I must point out, I take NO JOY in an opponent making such an error.
The good news is, of course, that the clip will serve perfectly as satire on AGW belief.
The bad news is that the warmists can’t see it.
It’s a clear sign that large numbers of the most influential and educated people are now irretrievably irrational and prepared to use or accede to violence in pursuit of their irrational beliefs. Again!
Cleverness was ever the enemy of wisdom. Sarah Palin isn’t the problem. Tina Fey is the problem.
The world will end not with a bang but a hipster.
“David Gould says:
September 30, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Jimash,
Yes, there are lunatics. Do we tiptoe around them all and ban comedy violence completely because it might tip someone over the edge?”
But David, It is not comedy violence. It is political intimidation. Aimed at children.
“Have you no decency, sir ?”
Sorry but I just had to add – one of the best ways to counter defective groupthink is through humour – but it does require that the audience actually has a sense of humour – what on earth’s the matter with you guys? We have our Josh to do our cartoons for us, now here comes a devastatingly, wickedly funny indictment of the warmistas, and you guys go all po-faced and want to trash it!! Talk about pearls before swine! I’m really very disappointed.
PATHETIC, DISGUSTING. BORDERS ON PATHOLOGICAL,….IF NOT PATHOLOGICAL. THESE FREAKS WHO MADE THIS VIDEO NEED SERIOUS HELP…
I CANNOT TELL YOU ON HOW MANY LEVELS THIS VIDEO DISGUSTS ME. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GREENIES….SICKOS…
I thought this was the worst I had ever seen: Animals committing suicide, discouraged by global warming
But that No Pressure video tops it all. I find it very hard to believe it was not meant as a satire.
I thought the leftist were the ones who always said that might doesn’t make right. Now they advocate killing those who disagree with them? Ha! This shows how intellectually devoid their argument is.
Sorry DDS, I think Spurs just moved ahead of Liverpool on my hate list. At least ‘Arry wasn’t in it. 😎
This cannot be real. Or can it?
I fully expect to discover this is a Skeptic “dirty trick,” attempting to make Alarmists look bad. If this is the case, I don’t approve. Let us keep the discussion rational and calm.
However if this truly turns out to be an Alarmist production, then I am alarmed. For it means they think, (or are at least “testing the waters” to see if,) rational and calm discussion can be abandoned.
No good can come of abandoning rational and calm discussion, in favor of blowing up those who have differing views. It is a step from peace into war, and all the misery that war entails.
If this revolting propaganda is truly an Alarmist production, then “it is worse than we thought.”
Jimasherman,
Can you explain how this intimidates children? My kids would find this absolutely hilarious, but then they have been raised on Blackadder and similar comedy. They also understand the difference between fact and fiction, which seems to be escaping some people, as they are conflating this video with actual atrocities.
Very disturbing … and very dangerous.
Adolf Hitler would love this stuff.
I wonder if the REAL scientists that are still actively supporting the AGW are aware of the true size of the monster they have contributed to feed.
Regards
I’m not sure which is more disturbing: the video or the responses to it, suggesting they be silenced or put on terrorist watch lists.
I don’t agree with any of it, but last I checked people had a right to express themselves freely. It’s sick, it’s psychotic, but the same freedoms that protect their right to say it is the same one protecting skeptics in what they say. And look at it like this… We must really be getting under their skins for them to produce this garbage. Take it as a sign that we’re winning, because that is what it is.
It occurred to me that there is a “Leftist Slogan” game that can be played with this video. What you do is recall or create a Bill Ayers type Leftist slogan that would be an appropriate “caption” at the end of each scene. To get us started, there is from the Sixties: “If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem.”
Brainwashing children like that is nothing short of child abuse.
It`s time politicians (conservative?) started proposing jail sentances for the people who do this to our children.
TomFP,
If that video is your idea of “humor,” just try replacing the people being murdered — including children — with any other group, race or religion.
Really, Tom, don’t you think there are any limits to decency? None at all?
Don’t lower yourself to Gould’s eugenics level.
Nice to see them being civil about the whole thing. Blow up the Deniers! ha ha ha.
Smokey,
You cannot simply replace the group; you need to have a similar context, as I tried to point out above, obviously badly.
As to limits to decency, there are things that I find offensive that other people find funny and there are things that I find funny that other people find offensive – case in point. 🙂 So I am not sure where you could set the limit. And do you mean a legal limit?
…….with music donated by Radiohead…….
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This shocking and nauseating video is ‘Coercive Persuasion’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_persuasion
But global warming has always been about alarmism to try to make people change their lives. So this falls perfectly to who they are.
And strangely Radiohead has a song that has an anti-coercion message in it. The song is “How To Disappear Completely”. It’s a song I like.
Now, I have to wonder if the members of Radiohead realize what hypocrites they are.
Smokey,
And can you clarify what you mean by ‘eugenics level’?
Hilarious video, but I think this actually makes me want to increase my carbon footprint.
Well, I promised my heart to only one woman.
But, on review, I find I have promised my head to three. A sculptor, an occultist, and a forensic pathologist.
Anyone can find out who the contributors to this 1010 charity farce are? It would be interesting to publish names here. Did they get tax credits for contributing to 1010? If so, this is partly financed by the taxpayers. Cute.
The eight stages of genocide (1996) are the steps that every genocide goes through. Gregory Stanton, who had studied the genocide in Cambodia for the American State Department, noticed this when he saw the genocide in Rwanda unfold in just the same way. He wrote up his findings shortly afterwards in 1996. Genocide always follows the very same 8 steps in the very same order:
1. Classification: the division into us and them. This is extremely common in human society. While it is not a sign that genocide is on the way, genocide would be impossible without an us and a them.
2. Symbolization: words or symbols are applied to the them: the yellow star that Jews had to wear under Hitler, skin colour, classifications put on ID cards. Again, this is common and is not a sign of genocide, but genocide cannot proceed unless there is some sure way to tell people apart.
3. Dehumanization: the them become pariahs: they are seen as less than human, as animals or a kind of disease. The Tutsis in Rwanda were called cockroaches before they were killed by the thousands. Killing them was no longer murder – it was just ridding the country of something bad. Dehumanizing words, like “gook” and “nigger”, belong to this step. Unlike the first two steps, dehumanization is not common! It is the first sick step on the road to genocide.
4. Organization: To kill people in large numbers you need organization: leaders, followers, a chain of command, duties, meetings, guns, training, hate speeches. Sometimes it is the government that does this, but often it is a paramilitary group that seems to be acting on its own (but which the government is either secretly helping or at least turning a blind eye towards). The killing might start at this stage, but not on a huge scale. Examples: the SS in Nazi Germany, the Ku Klux Klan in America, the janjaweed in Darfur.
5. Polarization: The first people killed in any genocide are not the pariahs themselves but those in the mainstream who speak up for them. The voices in the middle are silenced through threats, arrests or even killings. Now the message of hate goes unchallenged.
6. Preparation: the pariahs are often separated from the rest of the country – into ghettos, camps, reservations or some undesirable part of the country. Their property is taken from them (they are not coming back!). This step leaves them defenceless.
7. Extermination: the mass killings, the genocide proper.
8. Denial: The leaders of the genocide downplay it or tell complete lies and say there never was a genocide. As long as they are in denial the killings can go on.