That Carbon Trust Advert

[andytk]

AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG

That advert is doing my nut in.


anyone else seen it. I really do like the music but advert does my head in.

The Carbon Trust, making life more complicated/expensive somewhere near you soon.

Andy

[omitchell]

i like the parallel drawn between Robert Oppenheimer and ordinary car drivers, it just makes me think they are another bunch of lentilist nutters

[v8thunder]

I think the problem is that the people who put together campaigns like this haven't a clue what on earth they're talking about. I am frequently amazed by the total lack of car knowledge, proportional to the number of sweeping statements made about them, made by these environmentalists. Sorry, but if you're going to comment, you've got to know everything first.

Robert Oppenheimer created the most fearsome weapon ever known to mankind, with the sole purpose of completely destroying everything in its path and vanquishing the enemy, bringing it to it's knees. How dare they suggest that people just trying to get by day-to-day in cars are exacting the same damage with the same intentions and effects.

Just reminds me of the 'melodramatic victim support' units you get on TV after a car crash who make it out as though drivers' intentions are to crash and cars are designed to mangle flesh and destroy lives in the most violent way possible

[andytk]

Its not so much the advert and the parallel that it draws between the motorist and the nuclear bomb, its the fact that the carbon trust is being advertised.

There is now a mechnism in place to make it more difficult/expensive to do business.

The battle has been lost, the lentalists have won.

We might as well give up now.

Andy

[yertis]

They misquote Oppenheimer too. He actually said "Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds..." - which makes the context they've used it become utterly nonsensical...

[400sedave]

The irony of it is Oppenheimer, through his invention of the bomb has probably indirectly saved more lives than taken!

[yertis]

Quite so, and the impetus his work gave to our understanding of nuclear fission accelerated the development of the only realistic short-term alternative to fossil fuels.

People who work in advertising - stupid.

[mybrainhurts]

andytk said:

That advert is doing my nut in......anyone else seen it.....

If you mean the big hoardings....yes, get on my tits.

One dark night, I'm off mit zer combustible stuff to turn 'em into.....

CARBON.

[rude-boy]

I might be the only one but I can't take this ad seriously, not because of its content but because every time I see it it reminds me of that Inventors Guild ad.

Now they (the Inventors Guild) might be fine chaps and chapesses, but I get the imperssion that they are the sort that are one step up the food chain from "How to make a million in 5 days" book people.

Therefore, whatever their message is I'm not receptive.

[off_again]

To be honest, I dont mind the use of adverts on these issues. As long as these independent organisations feel they can justify the cost of national TV advertising then fine (why not spend the money on actually doing something?).

Anyway, it beats legislation and enforced environmental controls. And as a result, long let the adverts continue - keep the status quo....

[Rob-C]

off_again said:

As long as these independent organisations feel they can justify the cost of national TV advertising then fine

Unfortunately,

Carbon Trust website said:

The Carbon Trust is an independent company funded by Government.

They can justify spending as much of OUR money as they can blag.

[Witchfinder]

Rob-C said:

Carbon Trust website said: The Carbon Trust is an independent company funded by Government. They can justify spending as much of OUR money as they can blag.

In fact, isn't this the biggest oxymoron ever?