Posts Tagged ‘satire’

There’s an organization called 10:10, which is dedicated to reducing carbon emissions.  It’s based in London, but has global reach.  It’s organizing a day of action on 10/10/10.  And it just released (then pulled) a truly awful video to promote its work.  I’m not using ‘awful’ because of its content: you can decide for yourself what you think by watching it here.  (There’s also short description after the break, which you may prefer if you’re of a nervous or delicate disposition.)  I suspect the intersection of the set of people who grew up with Monty Python and the set of people who find this funny (or inoffensive, at least) is pretty much the union of those two sets.  So, other considerations aside for now, what is unequivocally ‘awful’? Read on to find out...