CEI reports today:
New Video Campaign—Global Warming Regulation Will Lead to the Next 1984
Washington, DC, May 13, 2009 - Global warming regulation is the target of a new 90-second video campaign released on YouTube today by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
CEI’s video follows in the steps of Apple Computer’s 1984 Super Bowl ad and the 2007 take-off on it, the anti-Hillary Clinton “Vote Different” spot that become an election year viral hit.
CEI’s release comes at a critical time:
• House Democrats are expected to soon mark up the Waxman-Markey climate change bill;
• The EPA, in a decision with major economic ramifications, decreed that carbon dioxide is a pollutant; and the agency’s so-called “Endangerment Finding” has been released for public comment;
• Scientific dissent continues to mount against the alleged “consensus” that we face a global warming threat;
• In classic Orwellian double-speak tradition, President Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality is reportedly meeting with a marketing group to re-work phrases like “global warming” and “cap and trade” and transform them to something else;CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman stated: “It is especially ironic that Al Gore serves on the Apple Computer’s board of directors. Here’s the company that, 25 years ago, warned us of the dangers of a ‘1984’ Orwellian mentality regarding computers, and on its board is the man most likely to lead us in a new ‘1984’ regarding energy use.”
Can Big Brother be green? Absolutely. If carbon dioxide were the planetary poison that global warming alarmists claim, then every aspect of our lives would be fair game for government control: the homes we build, the cars we drive, the light bulbs we use. Even the number of children we have—because lets face it; any reduction in CO2 that we achieve will be more than offset by the households our kids will create when they grow up.
There are already proposals in Congress and federal agencies to vastly increase taxes and regulations in order to address the so-called global warming crisis. But as a growing number of scientists are openly declaring, there is no crisis.
To take action, and to learn more, see http://cei.org/1984
South Park fans—this clip has a special treat for you.
Irony aficionados—In its original 1984 ad, Apple Computer warned of a totalitarian threat in computing. Today Al Gore sits on Apples Board of Directors. The company that warned of 1984 25 years ago now has, as one of its directors, the man most likely to lead us into a new 1984.
History students—Apple Computer ran its ad, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV…, only once, during the 1984 Super Bowl, to introduce its new Macintosh computer. In 2006, during the primary battles, a pro-Obama YouTube take-off of the Apple ad was created by an independent solo video artist,.casting Hillary Clinton in the role of Big Brother. The ad was titled Vote Different—apparently parodying Apples Think Different slogan. It can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-l…
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