So NBC changed the color of its logo green for this week while they had little segments in commercials telling people to save energy. Does anyone really think that accomplishes anything other than yelling, “Hey! Look at me! I’m environmentally conscious!” It’s just so masturbatory. People have been using little variations of the same tune since I was but a wee boy, and it’s nothing but people pretending that their meaningless efforts really matter to the world so they can feel good about themselves. The truth is, for the most part, the planet couldn’t care less whether you exist or not. Also, the biggest solutions to pollution come from innovations brought on by market forces that have nothing to do with good intentions (pollution is waste and thus inefficiency).
If you really want to do something to help the planet right now, kill a terrorist. Otherwise, being a productive member of our consumer society is good enough.
Oh, and properly dispose of hazardous chemicals.
Did anyone else notice that on “sunday night football” they did the same thing? They lowered the lights in the studio to “conserve” electricity, giving them selves a major pat on the back for doing so…….. and then panned to a blimp shot of the old stadium which was fully empty and yet fully lit up, just for NBC! f-n hypocrites!
Is that why the peacock was green? I thought maybe he got a look at the ratings. I noticed there wasn’t a single suggestion to turn a GE product off, or use it less…
“NBC” stands for “Nothing But Crap”
I was disappointed after reading the title to this post, then the article. Talk about having to “stand down”…
Alan, fortunately, the words Masturbation and NBC came close enough together in my field of view that I understood the topic quickly. Even so, for a split second, I though I (or Frank) was doing something wrong.
NBC cooked up this campaign using the only ingredients television knows how to use: superficiality, triteness and cheesiness, topped with a healthy dollop of arrogance. Didn’t anyone else find it a wee bit ironic that a television network — totally dependent on electricity for its survival, much of which is generated from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas — spent so much time lecturing viewers on how they must change their ways?
If NBC wants to find a way to keep the lights on in the SNF studio, perhaps the network should harness Keith Olbermann’s verbal flatulence as a supplemental fuel source.
If NBC wants to pat itself on the back so bad, I think they should lead by true example and just shut the network down altogether. Think if the energy savings. Think of the sanity savings. Think how much money I would save on Maalox when I no longer accidentally flip to NBC and get nauseas…
The ‘environmentally friendly’ episode of Scrubs was weird.
Thankfully, The Office was the least enviormental of their episodes that night, which made it the funniest.
I was watching “My Name is Earl” and Earl is talking to the warden and the conversation goes like this.
“Warden: Earl, I want you to include enviromental themes in your “scared straight” program.
Earl: Those don’t seem like they go very well together Warden.
Warden: I don’t care, must make it work.
Earl: But won’t we just be wedging it in there?
Warden: Yah, so?”
Does anyone else feel like this was the writers making fun of the idea of a green week? Perhaps they noticed the ridiculusness of this whole thing.
[LOL! Chuck had Adam Baldwin (who is conservative) tell a hippie to save the planet by taking a shower. -Ed.]
Masturbation week – I thought one-handed typing was for Fark kiddies and Paulbots?
Seriously, snakesavage, I noticed the same thing on SNF – it was more like ‘WTF’ last Sunday (Olberman? Give me a f***in’ break).
Glenn (Instapundit) sums up the current level of nitwittery pretty nicely: “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who keep telling me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”
The best part about the SNF lights off stunt was that they still had the giant TV behind the heads turned on and the stupid marquee running. Screams hipocrisy.
The second best part is when Tiki Barber complained that no one could see him.
I particularly appreciated the environmental message of sending douchebags and douchebagettes all around the globe. I guess the rest of us are supposed to be so appreciative that we’ll live in caves for a few years as “carbon offsets” for them.
Why couldn’t they just buy a few carbon credits and carry on as usual?
Jay Leno does put at least a bit of his money where his mouth is. He does, after all, have a wind power turbine for the garage that holds his dozens of gas-powered vehicles.
Sadly, he does better than most celebs.
“Oh, and properly dispose of hazardous chemicals.”
Good for soaking your old hippies in and making fertilizer to save the virgin forests.
One man’s hazardous chemical is another man’s Saturday afternoon fun….
North Korea does the most to “conserve electricity” of any country on the planet!
“night time satellite photo of North and South Korea”
Fight Global Warming!
chopping down all the Earth’s trees would help fight global warming! (scientific study)
Does somebody think that Jay Leno goes out to the garage, starts those dozens of cars up, and just lets them run? Car collectors drive one car at a time, same as conscientious movie stars. I have ten: guess how many I can drive at once? Compared to any California asshole with a four-hour a day commute, Leno’s an environmental saint.
The Prophet George’s Apostolic Recommendations for Helping the Environment:
1: Consume more paper products. This will force the paper companies to grow more trees in their farms.
2: Stop recycling plastic and glass. There’s plenty more where it came from, and at the moment it’s more wasteful burning all that gas driving the trucks around to gather up the so-called ‘recyclables’.
3. Burn lots of carbon. Trees eat carbon, and you want to feed them, right? If not, why do you hate trees?
So let it be written, so let it be done.
I was an idiot and clicked on that link about cutting down trees. It’s an attempt at spyware or something.