Falling elephants

View the winners of the '60 Seconds to Save the Earth' ecospot contest

Posted by Joseph Romm (Guest Contributor) at 5:43 PM on 03 Mar 2008

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The Alliance for Climate Protection and Current TV had a contest for provocative ecospots: short video messages to motivate friends, community, and government to get involved in solving the climate crisis. The winner created a great visual metaphor:

You can see all the winning videos here.

This post was created for ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

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This is dumb.

The joke might have worked in the 1950s.

Plus, there is a powerful animal-exploitive theme which is most regrettable.

The suffering of animals is NEVER irrelevant.

Environmentalists must understand: Environmentalism fundamentally is the concern for the well-being of all the community of living creatures on Earth.

Dropping elephants from the sky is a dumb joke, a joke that has little or nothing to do with environmentalism.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

by caniscandida at 6:02 AM on 04 Mar 2008

Quit your whining

And enjoy the cartoon, canis. That's right- CARTOON. Plus, the elephants weren't suffering- they looked happy crushing humans and cars.

by cavecanem at 8:46 AM on 04 Mar 2008

I Did Noth'n

I liked the 3rd place winner much better.

I agree with Canis that the winner is rather stupid - and it brought to my mind the old story of Chicken Little and the "Sky is Falling," which is of course the opposite impression we want to make.

by kmp at 9:05 AM on 04 Mar 2008

caniscandida is right!

Poor image of an animal being the one that is killing people. Actually it is people are killing people and people are killing animals! - by the billions per year!

I can see the play on words, - but that theme of "elephant in the room" is really not a universal understanding. A person in another part of the world would not make the connection right away!

Not cool!

by javaearth at 1:14 PM on 04 Mar 2008

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