Guest post by Alec Rawls
Is this video below child abuse? Instead of children exploding or polar bears falling like victims of 9/11, this time it is spectral children hating on mom and dad from a supposedly desolate future. Such childish doggerel can only be the product of earnest adults:
We haven’t killed all the polar bears
But it’s not for lack of trying
Big Bird is sacked
The Earth is cracked
And the atmosphere is frying
Apparently it is an anti-Romney ad, listing destruction of the planet by global warming as just one item in a laundry-list of petty demagogic cliches. Was this paid for by Obama?
Full “lyrics” here. Nice propaganda to put in the mouths of the innocent.
Hurry up and unplug our existing coal-generation electricity infrastructure, for the children, to keep them cold at night.
“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” for the children (Obama 2008), so they won’t have too much light.
Hurry up and quadruple gasoline prices, for the children:
“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
—Obama’s Energy Secretary in-waiting Stephen Chu in December 2008 when U.S. gas prices were below $2/gal and European gas prices were $8/gal.
And don’t forget that killing debt, for the children, the gift that keeps on taking.
Some kids will have good reason to blame mom and dad if they find the future impoverished (and cold instead of hot), like those kids in the video, who were undoubtedly put up to it by their own eco-leftist parents.
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Reminds of the Soviet child hero, so-called, Pavlik Morozov who was promoted as a model for all Soviet children to emulate for ratting out his parents:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov#The_propaganda_story
http://goo.gl/iNX7r
49 likes, 940 dislikes. It’s not going over well.
Deja vu……all over again…..
Sickening and depressing beyond words.
This is the same tactic used by the Soviet to murder 35 million people. Students turn their parents into the teacher who relays the information to the commissar. Next morning mommy and daddy are gone.
The thing is, it will be about 8 years and those kids will also be driving, flying, buying consumer goods, switching on air-conditioners and heaters etc independently of Mom and Dad. I didn’t watch the video I must admit, but I’m prepared to bet these kids were performing in it one minute and nagging mom and dad for the latest gadget the next – just like kids anywhere, given half a chance. Kids don’t stress about contradictions – it’s part of what we refer to as their innocence.
My own son was a child just a few years ago, but now he out-flies, out-drives and out-consumes me by a frightening margin. So who exactly are “the children”? I think “for the children” is at best meaningless (the children won’t be children anymore when the supposed benefits kick in), and at worst a piece of cheap propagandistic emotional manipulation.
Scott says:
October 27, 2012 at 9:06 pm
49 likes, 940 dislikes. It’s not going over well.
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Que ?
I want to know where the switch is that will turn the thinking back on in these children, because looking into their eyes it had been switched off by their parents/guardians and teachers.
OK I have watched it and as a child-lover I’m shocked to say it made me thoroughly dislike those insufferably smug holier-than-thou kids who I have no doubt enjoy all the benefits of the modern world and have more than their fair share of the latest gadgets and fashions.
Give up your X-box or whatever it is you have these days and then lecture me on how you think I am deliberately killing polar bears. Sorry, I shouldn’t be so angry with the kids, just their parents and whoever put them put them up to this sanctimonious and offensive nonsense.
Who is it that calls them “skulls full of mush”? I see now they are right, and I’ve no problem identifying the source of that mush. We need to overhaul the education system in the US – the last overhaul went off the wrong direction. Can you imagine how embarrassing it is going to be for those kids with they reach the age of reason and discover they were used like toilet paper.
Well the dislikes have gone over 1000 now. But take heart who ever funded this in an attempt to boost Obama’s popularity, as against Mitt Romney, hasn’t done the President any favor really.
Pat complains of: “Street lights turned off in their thousands to meet carbon emission targets…”
Most street lighting is grossly excessive, and most street fixtures put much of their light straight into the sky without illuminating the roadway below. Worse, many fixtures shine into the eyes of drivers and pedestrians, interfering with their ability to ‘dark adapt’ enough to see at all.
Carbon is not a good reason to cut down on the waste, but that doesn’t mean we should waste energy in the first place.
Here are some comments on you tube before Obama disabled the comment feature:
http://www.youtube.com/user/FutureChildrenProjec/feed?filter=1
What a sick piece of crap.
These kids will develop into very angry adolescents when they realize they were duped and the embarrassment kicks in.
u.k.;
That’s on the YouTube webpage. The red/green bar beneath the video.
Here’re the lyrics, shown with the “Show More” button”
Street light turn offs. You are lucky you have street lights, in our 20,000 population city in Northern NSW, we have a few lights in the streets outside the CBD. Non on the highways outside the city. One time a few years ago, after complaints of few street lights, some champions actually went out with a light meter of some kind, and few street even registered any light at all.
I think this is a case of child exploitation and brain washing.
SAMURAI says:
October 27, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Deja vu……all over again…..
“Sickening and depressing beyond words.”
Agenda 21, and that’s the 1st thing you should really know, and not be told you can’t research the topic, is Nazism in disguise.
Agenda 21 For Dummies
As a parent – this just is just sick; what sort of mental state must the parents be in to justify having their kids used in such a way? They do not want to be there, this has been forced upon them.. somebody call social services..
Brian H says:
October 27, 2012 at 10:58 pm
u.k.;
That’s on the YouTube webpage. The red/green bar beneath the video.
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Thank you for that info !
pat says:
October 27, 2012 at 8:32 pm
one day these children will redirect their song to the architects & engineers of CAGW:
27 Oct: UK Telegraph: Claire Duffin: Street lights turned off in their thousands to meet carbon emission targets
Huge swathes of Britain are being plunged into darkness as more and more streetlights are switched off by councils and roads authorities.
Over the last couple of years, in the UK, the long term declining trend in vehicle deaths and serious injury has stopped and may even have reversed, particularly for cyclists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/feb/02/road-accident-statistics-cyclists
I couldn’t find any data on drownings, but during WWII when all streetlights were turned off, drownings rose sharply as people fell into rivers, canals and lakes in the dark.
And in 2012, in the UK, pedestrian deaths in vehicle accidents rose 12%.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2166274/Road-death-toll-rises-time-decade-worrying-increase-cyclist-pedestrian-fatalities.html
More evidence of how Warmists are killing people.
Two points.
1 – Julian Simon addressed all these issues, and more, a long time ago, with his Cornucopia Theory. Google it. It has the merit of being based on meticulously researched fact…….
2 – Why should the ‘Children of the Future’ ™ have all the fun? I offer a challenge to all the doggerel poets who haunt WUWT. Can you write a better set of lyrics which WE could sing to OUR fathers? Perhaps complaining that not enough was done to stop protesters destroying our civilisation….
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360%5D
I know the ‘N’ word, (no, the ‘other’ ‘N’ word!), is frowned upon but the suffocating similarity is just too hard to ignore. Subverting/brainwashing an entire generation was one of the most FUNDAMENTAL requirements for ‘success’. Do not trust your parents, they are lying to you. Your parents are the reason things are bad and you must reject them for the common good. ETC.
Nature tried a few thousand years ago and failed. It swept the Arctic free of ice and the hardened polar bears survived.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.016
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AGUFMPP11A0203F
Imagine at the very start of grid electrification an agency produced a report that co2 would lead to us frying. As a result governments around the world abandoned the use of electricity. Would the following generations be pleased that their grandparents reduced them to be still using candles and paraffin?
Fossil fuels have contributed greatly to the shift of humanity out of darkness, disease and misery. It has lifted our standards of living to the highest levels evahhhhh.