British Kids Encouraged to Become “Climate Cops”
July 29th, 2008Via: Prison Planet:
A leading British energy company blitzed the newspapers with full page colour advertisements this weekend which encourage children to sign up as “climate cops” and keep “climate crime case files” on their families, friends and neighbours.
The ads, run by Npower, promote a website at www.climatecops.com where “trainees” must complete three missions before they can join the “elite cadets” and “train to become a climate cop”.
These missions basically consist of a barrage of eco propaganda which the child must simply engage in in order to be accepted as a special agent of the green brigade.
The site offers a selection of downloads, including a pack of “climate crime cards“, which instruct recruits to spy on families, friends and relatives, encouraging each of them to build up a written “climate crime case file”.
“Report back to your family to make sure they don’t commit those crimes again (or else)!” one section states, before reminding recruits to keep a watchful eye on parents and even extend their web further. “What about the homes of aunts and uncles, or friends from school?” it suggests.
The concept brings to mind George Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty Four, in which children are encouraged by authorities to spy on their own parents and turn them in for minor transgressions against the State.
The site also has sections for teachers to gather materials from.
I am amazed that anybody anywhere thinks that encouraging this sort of behavior is an effective answer to our planet’s environmental problems. The authoritarians who came up with these ideas probably know it isn’t and just want to condition people to be all nice and controlled/controlling, but I really have to wonder about the rank-and-file citizens who fall for this crap.
This is the sort of story that convinces me the English have just gone plum fucking daffy