Originally Posted by
Hobbit
The following is a link to a CHILDREN'S web site run by ABC Australia. Let me repeat that important part there, a CHILDREN'S web site that's supposed to teach kids about the environment and emissions. More specifically, this link is to a carbon emissions test. This one, however, has the SICKEST final score of any of these tests I've even heard of. I know stuff like 'tons of CO2 per year' or something similar would be lost on little kids, but this is just sick. It tells you at what age you used up 'your fair share' (I'd like to know how they decided how much is fair) of the planet at your current rate. But, it gets worse. It doesn't state it that way. Instead, it tells you at what age you should have died to ensure that you didn't kill the planet. It even depicts you as a pig and show the pig in your score bracket exploding (with quite a bit of gore splattered on the walls). Is this really what we should be telling little kids?
It gets worse. The thing's heavily weighted towards telling you you're a terrible person. I scored better than the average Aussie, and the test still told me I should have died when I was 10. I tried again while filling in numbers for my dad (approximate) who flies a lot for his job, and even when I assumed he saves half his paycheck (I don't know the Australian-US exchange rate, but they say on the site that every dollar spent is 1.6 kg of CO2), it says he should have died at age 3.
Is this really the message we want to be sending to CHILDREN? Isn't this a little gruesome and, well, wrong?
http://abcaustralia.com/science/plan...house_calc.htm
I haven't watched the video yet but isn't that the logical conclusion to abortion and tree huggers beliefs. That human life has less value than a tree.
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Samuel Adams
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