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Artists Fill Paris With 600 Fake Ads To Protest Corporate Sponsorship Of Climate Conference
Paris is grabbing the world's attention again, but this time, it's with environmental messages aimed at the world leaders, including Obama, that gathered for the COP21 climate conference on Monday. 600 fake posters denouncing major corporations were installed behind the glass at bus stops around the city by Brandalism, a UK-based project. 82 artists from 19 countries joined them to help fight corporate control in advertising.
"By sponsoring the climate talks, major polluters such as Air France and GDF-Suez-Engie can promote themselves as part of the solution - when actually they are part of the problem," Joe Elan from Brandalism said in their press release.
"Because the advertising industry force feeds our desires for products created from fossil fuels, they are intimately connected to causing climate change," Elan said. "We are taking their spaces back because we want to challenge the role advertising plays in promoting unsustainable consumerism."
More info: brandalism.org.uk | Twitter (h/t: colossal)
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MaciekRavs 9 years ago
Check out the "COWSPIRACY" documentary to see the number 1 reason of climate change.
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SharonCampbell 9 years ago
Oh yes, weren't those big white bears cute? My former Member of Parliament assured me that polar bears were once brown bears and would adapt!!! Wel, he's no longer my MP and no longer the party in power so let's see if we can change this notion of, "we will adapt".
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ChrisCountey 9 years ago
Huge fan of Bored Panda, but to say that "Paris was bombed again" isn't very cool.
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ClaireLawrence 9 years ago
The line about Paris being bombed again is seriously bad taste. People died. Change it.
JulijaTelevičiūtė (Post author) 9 years ago
Yes, you are absolutely right, this was a mistake and we have corrected it. Thank you for the feedback!
MaciekRavs 9 years ago
Check out the "COWSPIRACY" documentary to see the number 1 reason of climate change.
RichardBartolák 9 years ago
Not true. The Earth's climate is constantly changing and will change. There was ice age for example.
DonaldMcClane 9 years ago
At last someone with some brains. Thank you for injecting some reasonable thinking into the sheep herd.
ChadRoberts 9 years ago
How about taking some personal responsibility? Christ, you demand these products made by fossil fuels. It's not the advertisers fault. Pahlease, people have become entitled to faster and more convenient transportation (ubers, vehicles); people need more fragmented information at higher speeds...Corporations feed off of the public's demand. You don't want it then stop buying into it. The same people bashing corporations are the same people who will go out and buy the new iPhone, and indulge themselves with products after product after product. Talk about bribed politicians, well go to town hall meetings and voice your anger. If people really took responsibility we wouldn't indulge in Black Friday, Cyber Monday etc etc... This whole corporations is the enemy is such a hack. Trade, trade, trade that is how the world will turn. You don't like how it's being turned well first look into the mirror and asks yourselves why does it work? Why do ads impact our opinions, attitudes and behavior?
AdrienRapoport 9 years ago
The thing is people will say it has to stop and take that decision, but only after (of course) everyone else does. If laws and better regulations were put in place, everyone would have to stop at the same time (and not after everyone else)... Why do you think we need governments in the first place? So that anyone can do whatever they want? I'm certainly not willing to trust others to be less selfish and look at themselves in the mirror to make mindfull decisions. Moreover, corporations and politicians can lie to the public and guess what? People believe those lies and go on with their consumer's lives. People need to know and to be slowly influenced into a change by bigger institutions such as the governments and the very corporations that are at the root of the problem. - We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
PriyankaJatan 9 years ago
It's good that people are raising awareness about major life hazards
Long Joan Silver 8 years ago
It's sad, what we are doing to this world. Something must be done to better the world that we live in.
KalaxanHarleqane 9 years ago
Global Warming is a Total Scam and a Fraud! These Ad People must actually be working for the Corporations!
DanielMatei 9 years ago
When YOU understand where ALL the "problems" comes from, it all from you, this explain how to STOP all of that: https://youtu.be/6zsNI4mfLQ4?list=PLeb5EDBrGrOK3_len9EYpLu1XRY3d5Ywh
LiekeMuller 9 years ago
What about the tress that have been cut down to make these posters? At least there's a climate conference and there is attention for the subject.
EvanPetrakis 9 years ago
anthropomorphic climate change is a scam. It is perpetrated by big money and big politics. the worlds climate has changed and will continue to change on its own.
Thegreatcountryofverden 7 years ago
Oh goodness. How many scam conspiracy flat earth videos have you been watching lately?
DonaldMcClane 9 years ago
Climate change is one big scam. It's amazing to see how people are fooled into believing they are causing the earth to heat up or cool down (like 20 years ago). This is about money. The extortion of the middle class to enrich the political class, like Al Gore!
ClaireLawrence 9 years ago
The line about Paris being bombed again is seriously bad taste. People died. Change it.
JulijaTelevičiūtė (Post author) 9 years ago
Yes, you are absolutely right, this was a mistake and we have corrected it. Thank you for the feedback!
MaciekRavs 9 years ago
Check out the "COWSPIRACY" documentary to see the number 1 reason of climate change.
RichardBartolák 9 years ago
Not true. The Earth's climate is constantly changing and will change. There was ice age for example.
DonaldMcClane 9 years ago
At last someone with some brains. Thank you for injecting some reasonable thinking into the sheep herd.
ChadRoberts 9 years ago
How about taking some personal responsibility? Christ, you demand these products made by fossil fuels. It's not the advertisers fault. Pahlease, people have become entitled to faster and more convenient transportation (ubers, vehicles); people need more fragmented information at higher speeds...Corporations feed off of the public's demand. You don't want it then stop buying into it. The same people bashing corporations are the same people who will go out and buy the new iPhone, and indulge themselves with products after product after product. Talk about bribed politicians, well go to town hall meetings and voice your anger. If people really took responsibility we wouldn't indulge in Black Friday, Cyber Monday etc etc... This whole corporations is the enemy is such a hack. Trade, trade, trade that is how the world will turn. You don't like how it's being turned well first look into the mirror and asks yourselves why does it work? Why do ads impact our opinions, attitudes and behavior?
AdrienRapoport 9 years ago
The thing is people will say it has to stop and take that decision, but only after (of course) everyone else does. If laws and better regulations were put in place, everyone would have to stop at the same time (and not after everyone else)... Why do you think we need governments in the first place? So that anyone can do whatever they want? I'm certainly not willing to trust others to be less selfish and look at themselves in the mirror to make mindfull decisions. Moreover, corporations and politicians can lie to the public and guess what? People believe those lies and go on with their consumer's lives. People need to know and to be slowly influenced into a change by bigger institutions such as the governments and the very corporations that are at the root of the problem. - We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
PriyankaJatan 9 years ago
It's good that people are raising awareness about major life hazards
Long Joan Silver 8 years ago
It's sad, what we are doing to this world. Something must be done to better the world that we live in.
KalaxanHarleqane 9 years ago
Global Warming is a Total Scam and a Fraud! These Ad People must actually be working for the Corporations!
DanielMatei 9 years ago
When YOU understand where ALL the "problems" comes from, it all from you, this explain how to STOP all of that: https://youtu.be/6zsNI4mfLQ4?list=PLeb5EDBrGrOK3_len9EYpLu1XRY3d5Ywh
LiekeMuller 9 years ago
What about the tress that have been cut down to make these posters? At least there's a climate conference and there is attention for the subject.
EvanPetrakis 9 years ago
anthropomorphic climate change is a scam. It is perpetrated by big money and big politics. the worlds climate has changed and will continue to change on its own.
Thegreatcountryofverden 7 years ago
Oh goodness. How many scam conspiracy flat earth videos have you been watching lately?
DonaldMcClane 9 years ago
Climate change is one big scam. It's amazing to see how people are fooled into believing they are causing the earth to heat up or cool down (like 20 years ago). This is about money. The extortion of the middle class to enrich the political class, like Al Gore!
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