Comments on: WWF: Gotta Exploit Someone http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/11/10/wwf-gotta-exploit-someone/ Since 2002, News, Technology and Pop Culture, 24 Hours a Day, Live and in Stereo. Editor of the PJ Lifestyle Website. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ed Driscoll » New Silicon Graffiti Video: Hide The Decline! http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/11/10/wwf-gotta-exploit-someone/#comment-11708 Ed Driscoll » New Silicon Graffiti Video: Hide The Decline! Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:03:13 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/?p=25283#comment-11708 [...] The WWF imagines a green 9/11, and then deploys the human shields. [...] [...] The WWF imagines a green 9/11, and then deploys the human shields. [...]

]]> By: Michael E. Lopez http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/11/10/wwf-gotta-exploit-someone/#comment-11125 Michael E. Lopez Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:59:03 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/?p=25283#comment-11125 I don't know if this is exploitation or not. It probably is, at least in some marginal sense. But one thing I DO know is this: as an adult, there is very little that I pay less attention to than the pontificating of young children on matters political and scientific. Are they supposed to be authority figures on climate change? I can't imagine so. Yet here they are, telling me what's going to happen to the planet. So why use the kids at all? Apparently because the facts by themselves won't suffice to move us to action. Which means one of two things: 1) Either the authors of this message think we're idiots who can't reason to the right conclusion and thus need to be pulled along by our heartstrings; or 2) The authors of this message know that their arguments are no damn good on their own. Either way, color me unimpressed. I don’t know if this is exploitation or not. It probably is, at least in some marginal sense.

But one thing I DO know is this: as an adult, there is very little that I pay less attention to than the pontificating of young children on matters political and scientific.

Are they supposed to be authority figures on climate change? I can’t imagine so. Yet here they are, telling me what’s going to happen to the planet.

So why use the kids at all?

Apparently because the facts by themselves won’t suffice to move us to action. Which means one of two things:

1) Either the authors of this message think we’re idiots who can’t reason to the right conclusion and thus need to be pulled along by our heartstrings; or

2) The authors of this message know that their arguments are no damn good on their own.

Either way, color me unimpressed.

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