Oh happy day, mates, for the little panda bear logo of World Wildlife Fund has chosen to enlighten our closed-up minds by informing us of the following:
The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.
Fuck the WWF for pulling this stunt. What do these two tragedies really have in common besides large-scale death that could possibly justify the implication that those who died during those terrorists attacks are somehow less important and less deserving of respect than those who were killed by the tsunami? Furthermore, no one could have prevented the massive earthquake that triggered the tsunami. In stark contrast, those who died on 9/11 were intentionally murdered by deliberate acts of will. The WWF just pissed all over these victims and their families.
Interestingly, this piece of crap reminds me a whole lot of Ill-Advised Adverts #1. Just another illustration of douchebags thinking alike.
Imagery: AdWeek
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Wow. Just… wow.
What do these morons suggest we could have done to prevent the tsunami? Are earthquakes George W. Bush’s fault along with hurricanes? If so I believe this it the first time I’ve seen someone idiotic enough to advance that hypothesis.
Oh, no, we could’ve prevented the earthquake that caused the tsunami. How? By respecting nature. See, all those earthquakes, and tornados, and hurricanes, and wildfires, and volcanic eruptions–those are all caused by white Westerners and their impertinence in re nature. I’m surprised you don’t know that. What did you think caused them?
wow. they really went there, didn’t they?
that’s… that’s some shit right there. i do not even have further words.
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They are in a serious state of DENY…DENY…DENY…right now, claiming they had nothing to do with it and that they are “repulsed” by it.
I call bullshit.
They get the P.R., good or bad, and they get to deny it. It’s a little like sneaking some shitty statement into cross-examination and then having it “stricken from the record”. It’s out there now.
These are the same bastard who keep running those friggin polar bear commercials which are blatant fucking lies.
They have an agenda and a certain class of peoples to whom they must appeal: the same kind of people who will find this disgusting fucking ad cutting edge and courageous.
I say, if the polar bears are having trouble finding food to eat, there are several thousand pounds of flesh out there that virtually nobody would miss.
Fuck em.
I’ll reiterate what my fellow astute bedheads have already pointed out: That we can control the planet’s weather systems – calm the seas, cool the atmosphere, steady the tectonic plates – by whatever petty, minuscule actions our “respect” can generate. They actually believe those metaphors are real. And by doing so we can prevent the deaths of many more people than if we attempt to alter the behaviors of evil humans. Only from the “enlightened” can we expect such brilliance as this ad.
Never mind that earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, hurricanes, and the like all occurred well before humans ever walked the Earth.
That was in anticipation of the day that humans actually walked the earth…
I’ve thought this before, and I’m glad someone communicated it with such a powerful image.
9/11 was NOT the worst tragedy to ever strike the world, and it was frustrating to watch America treat it as though it was.
I’m sure a lot of people understand that deaths outside of the US still “count”, but some people need to be reminded. While so many are focused on vague terrorist threats, much greater danger is going unchecked and much greater disasters are unfolding without aid.
Nowhere does this add say “fuck the people who died in the towers.”
Calm down.
The “Americans think 9/11 is the worst thing that ever happened” is a big, fat strawman. So your frustration is a waste of time.
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