Pure Evil

[piz 0]

This is one of the most evil web sites I've ever seen. When I answered the questions honestly (vs. answering as un-green as I could to see what would happen), it told me I should have died at age 9.7 because I would have used up my "fair share" of the earth's resources by then.

Yes, it actually tells you WHEN YOU SHOULD DIE based on your "environmental impact."

[piz 0]

I forwared the web address to Little Green Footballs. Sometimes the things they blog about get attention. They posted something about a Dunkin' Donuts online ad that had Rachel Ray wearing a kaffiyeh, and the outcry was so great that DD pulled the ad.

[Tito 0]

Disgusting, it says I should die at 5!

Your "Share" of the planet is 0; but what you make for yourself is yours and yours alone.

[JRoberts 0]

I should have died at age 18.9. I guess that's because I'm poor lol.

Disgusting site. I hope LGF takes it up.

[PhilO 0]

Note that it's a product of the ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - and I would guess that it's another government funded clone of the BBC (there's also CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and probably others.)

[GUY A 0]

I should have died at eight.

Also, based on my life style I "totally suck".

[Ed from OC 0]

Looks like I'm in the lead: I got age 4.9. Woo hoo!!

[bborg 0]

Let's do a little simple arithmetic. They're saying that my "share" of the planet was used up after only 9.9 years. Another way to put this is that according to this website there are only enough "resources" for the world's population to have my energy usage habits for 9.9 years. The world's population is about 6.7 billion, which means the total number of human years made possible by the Earth's resources is 66.33 billion. However, my energy habits are, according to this thing, still below the average Aussie (and probably the average American). The US population is about 304 million, with an average lifespan of 77-80 years. This means at my energy usage, which is still lower than average, the US alone will use up about a third of the world's resources within a generation.

So we have the US at 23.9 billion total years in the current generation.

Australia, 1.6 billion years

Canada, 2.6 billion

UK, 4.7 billion

France, 5 billion

Italy, 4.6 billion

Spain, 3.5 billion

Germany, 6.4 billion

Scandinavia, 1.9 billion

Japan, 10 billion

That comes to 64.2 billion years of human life in countries where the average energy usage is likely around my own. In other words, 97% of the world's resources will be gone in a generation, if you exclude the energy usage of the other, oh, 5.8 billion people.

[alann 0]

Apparently, I should have died at age 5.2, but, then, I wouldn't have been driving or spending on rent and, when I was 5.2, an "ethical investment" would have been any that didn't involve one to a politician or the Mafia and I spent my allowance on other, more important things, like Bazooka bublegum and baseball cards.

This is so abysmally stupid I don't see how they can pretend that it means anything at all. The number of facile, specious assumptions is greater than the number of nouns and verbs it took to make them up. It's just an opportunity to rage against the machine -- any kind of machine. Of course, we know that a White Lab Coat = Incontrovertible Scientific Truth. I'm gonna pull mine out of the closet for Halloween, I can go door-to-door as a Global Warming Expert and advise people that opening their door wastes energy and releases greenhouse gases, contributing to Global Warming, and handing out candy pollutes the environment and causes little human bodies to emit more heat, hence contributing to Global Warming.

If a tree fern or a Jersey cow were to take this test, both would fail abysmally, since they both emit greenhouse gases, contributing to Global Warming, the tree through the dark cycle ("dark" = evil), the cow via 10**4 liters methane/year. What we really need is to declare war on Nature, which is the biggest damned emitter of water vapor, CO2, and methane of all.

[PhilO 0]

What we really need is to declare war on Nature, which is the biggest damned emitter of water vapor, CO2, and methane of all.

They are - at least, Human Nature.

[bborg 0]

Of course, we know that a White Lab Coat = Incontrovertible Scientific Truth. I'm gonna pull mine out of the closet for Halloween, I can go door-to-door as a Global Warming Expert and advise people that opening their door wastes energy and releases greenhouse gases, contributing to Global Warming, and handing out candy pollutes the environment and causes little human bodies to emit more heat, hence contributing to Global Warming.

It looked like a poorly drawn McGruff the Crime Dog clone to me.

Incidentally, I walk past quite a few people every day who would, according to this game, represent the ideal "green" lifestyle. They're called panhandlers.

[MichaelJ 0]

Note that it's a product of the ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - and I would guess that it's another government funded clone of the BBC (there's also CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and probably others.)

Yes, the ABC is a government ran station, but it is very small in comparison to the BBC and there is a strong movement that wants to privatise it.

Anyway, it is something we have been aware of in Australia(I have been campaigning on it over the past 2 weeks, bringing it to the attention of as many people as I can down here, and causing a big uproar).

Recently, the Liberal party brought the ABC leadership to answer before the government, and condemned that program. The ABC leadership tried to wriggle out of it by saying it was a childrens program and the intent of it was misunderstood, but it has really hurt their image.

Anyway, the program itself is properganda, if you play with it, you can see the rules by which it works.

Almost all the choices have no impact at all, until near the end where you are presented with 2 questions.

The first is how much money you make, and the second is how you spend it.

If you answer it that your a single mother, trying her hardest to give her kids a good life(i.e. $40,000 and no money on anything other than ordinary spending), you will be told that you should be dead.

If you are a rich person such as Al Gore who spends a few thousand on 'ethical' investments, you can live forever, no matter what your other choices are.

Note at the end that they encourage you to play with the questions to see how different choices affect things.

The point of such a program in my view, is to try to induce guilt for not donating to green causes.

(If you should be dead at x age due to over using resources, then you 'must' be taking other peoples resources but with this simple choice, you can be guilt free!)

It seems that enviromentalism is morphing into a religion more and more, with the original sin that we got to pay penance for, being that we change the Earth.

[bborg 0]

By the way, if you choose all the "right" answers except on the last one say you spend all your money on "ordinary stuff (eating, drinking, going out, clothes, car, rent, etc.)" your proper lifespan is still only 30 years. The difference between living only 30 years and living "forever" depends on how much money you give to environmentalists. I think even Al Gore has a thing or two to learn from them about "science"!

[Ed from OC 0]

By the way, if you choose all the "right" answers except on the last one say you spend all your money on "ordinary stuff (eating, drinking, going out, clothes, car, rent, etc.)" your proper lifespan is still only 30 years.

Well of course.

P.S. The top of my browser reads "Replying in Pure Evil." That's a little strong, I think. "Replying in Slightly Sarcastic Tone" is more accurate.

[realitycheck44 0]

By the way, if you choose all the "right" answers except on the last one say you spend all your money on "ordinary stuff (eating, drinking, going out, clothes, car, rent, etc.)" your proper lifespan is still only 30 years. The difference between living only 30 years and living "forever" depends on how much money you give to environmentalists. I think even Al Gore has a thing or two to learn from them about "science"!

Even worse, in my opinion, is that if you choose all the wrong answers, and at the end say you spend all (or most) of your money on "ethical investments" you still live forever. As if that somehow magically reduces your "carbon footprint" - the thing the enviros are screaming about on the top of their lungs. This is so ridiculous I'm not even sure you can call it evil. (But then again, I guess lots of things are ridiculous that somehow made enough impact to merit the term "evil".)

[Stussy88 0]

This is one of the most evil web sites I've ever seen. When I answered the questions honestly (vs. answering as un-green as I could to see what would happen), it told me I should have died at age 9.7 because I would have used up my "fair share" of the earth's resources by then.

Yes, it actually tells you WHEN YOU SHOULD DIE based on your "environmental impact."

Assuming this is not a spoof....

1.9 years.

Apparently "spending money" is bad?

and two quotes

Find out when you should die?

How big a greenhouse pig are you?

Hmmm.... someone presuming to know when I should die based on his view of my life? Seems to me I have heard that somewhere before? Now who was it?

At least they are becoming more open about the aspiration to get us all into concentration camps

[Thales 0]

By the way, if you choose all the "right" answers except on the last one say you spend all your money on "ordinary stuff (eating, drinking, going out, clothes, car, rent, etc.)" your proper lifespan is still only 30 years.

Well of course.

Haha, I guessed right before clicking on the link!

P.S. The top of my browser reads "Replying in Pure Evil." That's a little strong, I think. "Replying in Slightly Sarcastic Tone" is more accurate.

I'm getting hit with the same message right now.

[ewv 0]

Assuming this is not a spoof....

Environmentalism is so extreme you can't possibly satirize it -- whatever you think of, they have already exceeded it and mean it.

Here are the headers in the web page source for "greenhouse calculator". You get to the same web site by going to http://planetslayer.com, which redirects to the Australian Broadcast Company site and which is also registered to the ABC. There is a lot more there than the "calculator" that tells you you should die for living too much. A lot of resources are going into this movement.

		<title>Planet Slayer - Greenhouse Calculator</title>
		<meta name="Title" content="Planet Slayer">
		<meta name="Description" content="Planet Slayer is the world's first
irreverent environmental website. It's an interactive website that tells the shocking 
truth about how the environment is affected by the way we live and what we buy, 
but without the tedious, worthy greenie attitude.  Planet Slayer puts our actions and 
choices into perspective - the style is irreverent, but the facts are right. ">
		<meta name="Keywords" content="Planet Slayer, Planetslayer, 
environment, environmental, greenie, Greenhouse, greenhouse calculator, CO2, 
greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, Greena, Schpinkee, X-on, Australia, Kyoto protocol, 
IPCC, ethical investment, Worrier Princess, Eco Worrier, Eco Warrior, greenhouse facts">
		<meta name="Date" content="27/02/2003">
		<meta name="Language" content="English">

		<meta name="Publisher" content="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">
		<meta name="Publisher" content="(SCHEME=EMAIL)planetslayer@your.abc.net.au">
		<meta name="Publisher" content="(SCHEME=URL)http://www.planetslayer.com/">
		<meta name="Rights" content="Copyright 2003 Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 
Other rights may be held as detailed in text. www.abc.net.au/common/copyrigh.htm">
		<meta name="ABC-DateReversed" content="20030227">
		<meta name="ABC-Gateway" content="Science">
		<meta name="ABC-Site" content="Planet Slayer">
		<meta name="ABC-ResourceType" content="0">
		<!--Javascript-->

		<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="/science/planetslayer/js/planetslayer.js"></script>
		<!--Stylesheet-->
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/science/planetslayer/style/planetslayer.css">

[bborg 0]

P.S. The top of my browser reads "Replying in Pure Evil." That's a little strong, I think. "Replying in Slightly Sarcastic Tone" is more accurate.

How is it possible that I've never seen Logan's Run?

[Rose Lake 0]

Did everyone get the pool of blood with the beckoning finger sticking out of it? I wasn't scheduled to die as early as poor Stussy. I was magnanimously allowed to live to the ripe old age of 2.8 years

A few months ago I decided that I should strive to leave the biggest carbon footprint possible. But I really had no idea that I'd succeeded so well. I was figuring that I was at least going to have to get an S.U.V., and maybe take a few trips to Australia before I could expand my footprint to any kind of reasonable size. But apparently, if you pay all at once for building a porch on your house, that'll do instead. Such a momentous event appears to enlarge your footprint to approximately the size of a small state.

For all those who can simply wait no longer to stop leaving their dirty carbon footprints everywhere, I recommend a visit to your local Mosque. Bring a certain little cartoon with you and make sure to tell all your new 'friends' how much you love it. Then (if you still have your head, and are not yet a little pile of ashes) act out your love by kissing the cartoon fondly. And make sure to bring hundreds of copies printed out on post-it notes, so that you can attach them to every surface in sight. In no time at all, your carbon-footprint worries will be over!

[Paul's Here 0]

I am dead at 7.8. I find this site to be quite selfish, only concerned with me, me, me. It would have been much better to show how my piggishness decreased the lifespan of other people. What's the difference to you if I only live to be 7.8 years old? You'd really be upset if I killed your kids at 7.8!!! Now that's true altruism!!

[JRoberts 0]

Did everyone get the pool of blood with the beckoning finger sticking out of it? I wasn't scheduled to die as early as poor Stussy. I was magnanimously allowed to live to the ripe old age of 2.8 years

A few months ago I decided that I should strive to leave the biggest carbon footprint possible. But I really had no idea that I'd succeeded so well. I was figuring that I was at least going to have to get an S.U.V., and maybe take a few trips to Australia before I could expand my footprint to any kind of reasonable size. But apparently, if you pay all at once for building a porch on your house, that'll do instead. Such a momentous event appears to enlarge your footprint to approximately the size of a small state.

For all those who can simply wait no longer to stop leaving their dirty carbon footprints everywhere, I recommend a visit to your local Mosque. Bring a certain little cartoon with you and make sure to tell all your new 'friends' how much you love it. Then (if you still have your head, and are not yet a little pile of ashes) act out your love by kissing the cartoon fondly. And make sure to bring hundreds of copies printed out on post-it notes, so that you can attach them to every surface in sight. In no time at all, your carbon-footprint worries will be over!

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