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Do those industry-funded ads painting the oil sands as some kind of Ecotopia make your stomach churn?
Looks like they had the same effect on the folks at Greenpeace Canada.
They put on a contest to "culture jam" the ads by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
The spoof ad above is the winning entry by former chemical engineer Bryn MacDonald of Alberta.
Greenpeace says the ad has been plastered around Ottawa.
You can follow Stephen Hui on Twitter at twitter.com/stephenhui.
Comments
4 Comments
A.S.
May 25, 2011 at 1:42pm
I wonder how long the folks at Greenpeace could survive without petroleum products...last time I checked, almost everything is derived from petroleum products. A life without plastic or polyester seems downright impossible.
Angus McAllister
May 26, 2011 at 1:02am
Well Thog, I haven't been out of my cave for a long time, but last time I checked almost everything was derived from whatever I could chase down with a pointed stick or hit with a rock.
Yup. A life without pointed sticks and rocks seems downright impossible.
KMack
May 31, 2011 at 1:30pm
A.S., petroleum based products haven't been around for that long. A hundred years ago our civilization was thriving without the use of petrochemicals, period. Hemp can do everything oil can do, and it did. And more. This whole "without oil we'd be lving in the stone age" attitude is such a joke.
And omg, this poster is so funny.
TOADster
Jun 6, 2011 at 2:25pm
I challenge all the opponents of oil and nuclear to go off grid. We can live without... but what quality of life? How many freeze and die in the winter? How many would starve without modern farming methods? What about deforestation and erosion... because that's what happens when people cut all the trees for fuel, or clearcut them to plant 'hemp'. Look around the world where there is no modern industrial society... desertification, poverty, starvation and despair... Instead of joining them we should be trying to help them.