Again the plastic bag issue rears its head on the BBC, but in so doing rather highlights another 'Two 'E's' issue, this time Ecology vs. Environment.
I was moved to request that this dilemma at least be better addressed:
I see the BBC again plugging the notion that celebs buying designer reuseables at 'only ' £5 a pop is the best 'awareness' way to be greener.
Having done the free commercial for the luvvie brigade's profits, on a more pragmatic level we have the reporter standing in Oxford Street. But then we get into semantics. He is bang on when he says that retailers are responding to 'solve' the 'ecological' problem with... paper bags. No choking a turtle there.
However, I'd be keen for the national news broadcaster to inform me as to the 'environmental' impact of this switch...
I believe the greenhouse gas consequences of this option might be of relevance in the mix.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
You're 'aving a larf'
My view on this From Emo to Ego from Grist about another celeb awareness... er.. effort
'What will be the fallout?', they ask.
Let's see...
'...the band will board a private jet...' as the first line in the PR seems to set it up.
Kinda compounded, if explained by '...MTV News will be with the band every step of the way..'
But it's OK, because 'This certainly outdoes last February's FOB stunt, Infinity Flight 206...'
Boggling the mind, mind, is that this is billed as '..teaming up with Greenpeace for the concert, in the hopes of raising awareness about global warming.'
Know what? I think folk may be pretty 'aware' about Probably Man Worsened Climate Change (Global warming is, so like, last year... if not plain inaccurate) by now, but celebs and eco-elites and rating-priority media swanning about in jets to do it all may well be the bigger message that gets sent around the world, and hence again give cause to ponder the value of many self-appointed messengers. And those who give them page space. Like us. Funny old word, eh?
What next? Hey, I have an idea! Leonardo, Tamsin, Madge et Al can hook up with Top Gear and fly (commecial of course) their Priuses to the Antarctic for a Celebrity Destruction Derby!
This is getting so bizarre I figure there is method to this madness, but it's so subtle I am missing it.
'What will be the fallout?', they ask.
Let's see...
'...the band will board a private jet...' as the first line in the PR seems to set it up.
Kinda compounded, if explained by '...MTV News will be with the band every step of the way..'
But it's OK, because 'This certainly outdoes last February's FOB stunt, Infinity Flight 206...'
Boggling the mind, mind, is that this is billed as '..teaming up with Greenpeace for the concert, in the hopes of raising awareness about global warming.'
Know what? I think folk may be pretty 'aware' about Probably Man Worsened Climate Change (Global warming is, so like, last year... if not plain inaccurate) by now, but celebs and eco-elites and rating-priority media swanning about in jets to do it all may well be the bigger message that gets sent around the world, and hence again give cause to ponder the value of many self-appointed messengers. And those who give them page space. Like us. Funny old word, eh?
What next? Hey, I have an idea! Leonardo, Tamsin, Madge et Al can hook up with Top Gear and fly (commecial of course) their Priuses to the Antarctic for a Celebrity Destruction Derby!
This is getting so bizarre I figure there is method to this madness, but it's so subtle I am missing it.
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