Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda

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All Your Carbon Are Belong To Us

Evil carbon lurks everywhere throughout the atmosphere - even within the cells of every living thing! Oh noes, we gotta do something!?!

Do not fear, Cap'n Trade is here! If Congress doesn't pass legislation to save the planet, the Cap'n and his scientists at the EPA are going to raise taxes on corporations! In other words, the Obama Administration and the EPA are determined to destroy The United States of America as we know it:

 "This is the largest assault on democracy and freedom in this country that I have ever experienced," Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) said at an Energy and Commerce Committee hearing last week, adding that he feared the cap-and-trade proposal more than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and former President Clinton's impeachment trial.

Rep. Shimkus forgot to add...worse than the Fox Network's early cancellation of Arrested Development and worse than Barcelona defeating Arsenal in the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final.

Aah, it's just another squishy totalitarian solution that will one day bring us environmentally sustainable warfare. 

When The Going Gets Tough, Americans Go Shopping?

Last week I received the following email.

Subject: CELEBRATE EARTH DAY

APRIL 22, 2009
Buy yourself a Motorola ReNew

The Motorola W233 Renew offers an easy way to help you proactively protect the planet without compromising the quality of your phone. Exclusively from T-Mobile, the environmentally responsible Motorola W233 Renew is uniquely designed to reduce environmental impact by using sustainable materials in its design and packaging while at the same time delivering performance and quality customers rely on. Minimizing its carbon footprint through energy, transportation and material efficiencies, the Motorola W233 Renew does its part reduce its climate impact.

Really? How in Mithra's name is a buying a new cell phone going to save the planet? The most environmentally responsible thing to do would be to use your current cell phone until it craps out beyond repair. Just think how much energy was exhausted in the Motorola plant to build the millions of W233 Renews that are being scattered across the planet. And how exactly does sending my old cell phone to the landfill reduce environmental impact?