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"Who speaks for Earth?"

Who speaks for Earth?

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Aboriginal elder speaks out

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You know, just today [10/09/16], I overheard someone at Stanwell lookout say “Awww. You know, we live in the best country, don’t we?”. And looking around at this horrible new ‘development’ consisting of an ugly concrete non-functional ‘aesthetic’ wall including horribly kitch mosaic tiling, concrete car park & benches, stainless steel railings, stupidly symmetrical plantings (barely alive), I just had to bite my tongue and walk in the other direction. Because in that moment, I realised that we’d made that lookout way, way uglier than it did before. Seriously. Some people must be blind.

The veneration of crap.

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[it’s not actually me who said that]

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Design wise, there is nothing actually ‘wrong’ with this advertisement. I’m liking/sharing this post, because designers & creatives need to see how some of their ads are being perceived out there in the real world. There’s nothing actually ‘wrong’ with the design. It’s the content that is the problem.

What I would like to see is creatives grow some balls for once, stand up and say to these companies:

“you know, it’s getting harder for us to be able to sell these fossil fuel vehicles”.

People just don’t want them. Pretty soon, graphic design alone will not be enough.

“The veneration of crap.” — Cathal Rabbitte

 

Jim Hansen vs Ron Johnson

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Well with IGNORANT senators like this, we’re all fückéd:

I don’t think imbeciles like this should be in such high positions in government. No one is saying that the climate doesn’t change on its own over the long term. But there is such a thing as a RATE of change. And the rate we’re headed on is not good. If you have read about chaos, then it is normal for systems to behave erratically and fluctuate more as they change from one state to another. I think if politicians disrespected accountants and financial planners to this degree, there would be outrage. I’m actually glad I’m not a scientist today, if this is how we get treated.