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   TariffDude Posted 6:22 am
   20 Feb 2007

   Take a nap, maybe?Greenpeace just wishes kids were that pissed off.  

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   Baby Boomer Posted 7:34 am
   20 Feb 2007

   This will really reach people - notI just want to slap the kid.  Does that make me not environmentally sound?

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   wiscidea Posted 8:03 am
   20 Feb 2007

   La la la... fingers in ears... I can't hear you.My speakers aren't working, but I suspect that individuals skeptical about global warming will not be persuaded to change their minds after this sort of video. Indeed, they will probably blame liberal environmentalists for creating a generation of uppity children who have no respect for their parents... one more reason for the right to despise the left and totally ignore those flaky penguin huggers.
   There aren't many opportunities to quote Don Rumsfeld, but...
   Videos like this are "not helpful".
   
   Forward!

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   kmp Posted 8:05 am
   20 Feb 2007

   Creepyreally creepy.
   Why does he look like a "this is your brain on drugs?" commerical?  Like a future heroin addict?  Like a shifty little punk who spends his time dealing dime bags on the corner and stealing Slurpies from the 7-11?
   Bizarre way to convince "you adults" to fight for "his" future.  If it were only about him, I'd say "Sucks to be you!"

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   GRLCowan Posted 9:11 am
   20 Feb 2007

   Does it remind you ...of the stop-smoking ads that tobacco companies were forced to run? Their narration seemed to be aimed at parents, and there were actors representing the parents receiving the advice, but they also showed polite, cheerful ... teenagers.
   The narration was counselling the parents on how to advise their children not to smoke. The adult actors were delivering the recommended advice, and the child actors were gratefully and happily accepting it. How many actors they went through before finding ones who could refrain from turning their heads 360 degrees before the shoot ended, I don't know.
   --- G. R. L. Cowan, former hydrogen-energy fan
   
   Oxygen expands around B fire, car goes

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   caniscandida Posted 10:11 am
   20 Feb 2007

   I love that kid!He is brilliant!  "Either you are for our future, or you are against it" -- take that, W.!  "We won't be cute.  We won't be patronized."  The zombie-oid hood, make-up and lighting sure help make that point.
   This is a terrific message, and I hope those with ears to hear hear it.
   Is it fair?  Hard to say.  It is indeed ironic that so many parents are fiercely acquisitive and competitive, with the motive of raising their children well, supporting them, and giving them every advantage in the future.  Should they be blamed, because their very acquisitiveness and competitiveness have resulted in a world that is increasingly miserable for their children and grandchildren.  Probably.  But the poignancy of their self-accusing anguish should not be overlooked.
   Anyway, this brilliant kid certainly does NOT deserve to be silenced and banished.
   
   Chickens are our cousins!
   
   So are other sensitive animals!
   
   Enough is enough!
   
   No more factory farms!

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   Emily O Posted 11:30 am
   20 Feb 2007

   Hey, I AM that kid!TariffDude, I am a kid, and I AM that pissed off.
   I agree that this video wasn't really effective, though. What would've made it more satisfying, for me, anyway, is if he'd said something like, "So all you adults that didn't work to change anything, don't give up now! You aren't dead yet. And all you kids my age that think it's not in your control...if you're able to  make decisions for yourself and the ways you want to live your life, and I'm sure you want to think you're able to do that, then you aren't that helpless. I mean, give me a break."
   I realize that not all positive actions that may be taken to curb climate change are options for all people. But, I think this over-simplified message may have gone over better than the one used for this video did.

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   cieldumort Posted 2:06 pm
   20 Feb 2007

   mehI wondered what Britney Spears would be doing with all that free time in Rehab.
   Seriously tho -
   
   "Either you're with our future, or you're against us! The youth is already galvanizing a coalition of the willing!"
   Delighted the kid is showing us how he is personally using candles for lighting, riding his bike to and from school - never riding in cars - using chalk and chalkboard to do his homework on. Meh.
    The video stuck me more as something Inhofe would love to grab a hold of and trumpet around as evidence of that vast left-wing conspiracy to brainwash the youth. And frankly, watching this video, I would even have to somewhat agree with such a charge.
   The odds of the things having come to pass that he claims are going to happen "by the time I grow up" are so absurdly slim to none that I would sooner take out insurance against a direct hit by a large asteroid.
   Yes, the add is a turnoff. Even to someone like myself who is extremely concerned about AGW. It is just too heavy on finger-pointing and hype. And from a snotty kid, no less.

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   amazingdrx Posted 3:46 pm
   20 Feb 2007

   I agree Canis!This is a great message and a great performance.
   The rest of you adults STFU and go to your rooms!
     You can take the confedrate out of the confederacy, but all you have left is a faux intellectual whose real mantra deep down is "git-r-done".  Hehehey.
   
   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

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    dpstrauss Posted 4:37 am
    24 Feb 2007

    Re: Climate change awareness video featuring pissyYou must be kidding!!  I would and do happily encourage my chldren to be just that "pissy" about the future we have created for them.  Those of us who are Baby Boomers had the luxury of being born into a planet that was still in relatively decent shape.  Yes, it was a bit beat up, but nothing compared to what my youngest child was born into.  The fact is, we could cut our carbon emissions to pre-industrial levels tomorrow and the consequences we are witnessing now will still continue to unfold for hundreds of years.  How could you ask such a question?  This kid is expressing moral outrage, and well he should because this is a moral issue.  You may think it's excessively dramatic to say this, but we have no right to destroy anyone's future or to take from them  the possibility of the comforts and privileges we have been afforded. Those we have brought into the world and those who come after them have every right to be pissed off.  I would be filled with a great sense of hope if every twelve year-old kid sounded like that.  We need to prepare ourselves to hear all voices and not tell a single one of them to STFU.  Listen up!!!

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