Aussies say TV advertising is killing the environment

Here is a story that I just don’t understand. I’ve read it several times and it still blows my mind that an Australian marketing and consulting firm is claiming that TV ads are contributing to carbon emissions and are killing the environment.

Personally, I think this is just an excuse to get rid of TV advertising. Sure they can be annoying while you are watching your favorite show or sporting event, but to say they are contributing to the destruction of the environment is just ridiculous.

Maybe they should take this a step farther and say that it’s not just the ads, but the programs themselves that are causing too much carbon emission. Perhaps we should just stop using television altogether. Or better yet, let’s stop using any device that uses electricity. That’s brilliant! I’ve just solved the environment issue: Put a ban on the manufacturing and usage of all products that use any source of power and can possibly emit carbon. We can go back to living in caves and hunting for food with clubs and spears. It will be great!

Now, if only we can figure out how to get people to stop exhaling…

Read this nonsense here.

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Tags: Australia, carbon emissions, Environment, global warming, television, tv ads

2 Responses to “Aussies say TV advertising is killing the environment”

AreYouInsane! Says:
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:59 am
TV Advertising is a pain in the bollocks, not ‘can be annoying’.
Fuck TV I say get rid of it altogether, we’d all be better off.
Areyouallthere! Says:
July 31st, 2008 at 4:06 am
How short sighted are you?

The best thing we can do is to report on these things and make it open to the public - then public then gets to make an informed decision. If you continue to verbally batter any form of transparent reporting that gets published then you dumb down a society that is already struggling to come to terms with bias reporting and over the top interest groups.

No one is saying stop watching TV but perhaps it time we put pressure on these industries to develop better tools to show us their ads. Who knows, we might get to enjoy the environment and watch ads.

You don’t seem to think this is possible and you don’t seem to value transparency in these things. Negative and corrupt!… not a good combination. Free speech is great but back it up with some logic and not just blatant sensationalism. You can talk all you want but start the sentence with “I’m not an expert”.