It’s mid-summer and global warming alarmists are going right into the tree house to recruit your children to their never-ending, the-sky-is-falling cause.
This time it’s the well-paid bureaucrats at one of Britain’s biggest utility corporations.
Launched in the weekend papers, full colour ads by “Britain’s brightest energy company,” npower, urges vacationing school children to sign up as “climate cops”.
By now your bored-with-summer, freckle-faced, 9-year-old Tom Sawyer of the ‘hood could be keeping a secret file on your environmental sins.
“In a luridly-designed website, mimicking the style of “yoof” cartoons, it offers a bundle of downloads, including a pack of “climate crime cards”, urging its recruits to spy on families, friends and relatives, inviting each of them to build up a “climate crime case file” in order to help them ensure their putative criminals do not “commit those crimes again (or else!)!” (
eureferendum.blogspot.com, July 27, 2008.)
They leave it to the imagination what they mean by “or else”!
In not so long ago generations, the “bad guy” was the bank robber, the burglar or the vandal, today it’s the environmentally insensitive monster that leaves in his tracks, a giant carbon footprint.
Don’t be surprised if your in-house wannabe Sherlock Holmes is no longer welcome at his favourite aunt’s and uncles. The ads urge the Kool-Aid set to spy on their aunts and uncles when they’re done taking stock at home!
Would be in your best interests to find out what npower bureaucrats intend to do with information forwarded on in their “climate crime case files”.
Climate criminals can hold onto the vague hope that it will be nothing to do with future brownouts or power shortages.
This is a gamesmanship that offers nothing wholesome for youngsters, who are being given goals to turn in their parents with a promised reward of being able to “train” in the “Climate Cop Academy”.
Touted in advertising campaigns as “clean and green”, npower, which supplies electricity and gas to homes and businesses, boasts some 6.5 million customers.
According to
umbrellablog.com,. “The designation of certain lawful actions—desirable or not—as “crimes” is an unwholesome distortion of our moral code.
“It confers moral equivalency between not turning off a light and, say, shoplifting or vandalism. It seeks to impose a moral judgment on a normal activity, blurring the line between something, which is lawful, and something, which is not. This confusion, especially when children are the focus, cannot help define and communicate our moral code, with which many children have only a distressingly limited acquaintance.
“Secondly, the recruitment of children to pass judgment on their parent’s “crimes” is wholly malign, not least in undermining the authority of adults.
“Third, in that the campaign seeks to align children with an external agency, which is setting the parameters by which the children should judge their own parents and other adults, it creates an alternative authority which purports to be superior to that of the parents and other authority figures. That is confusing to the child, and also creates a potential area of friction…what if the parents object to this overt attempt to undermine their authority?”
The ad campaign advises children to be on the lookout for things such as parents putting hot foot into a freezer.
Architects of saving Planet Earth from Carbon Footprints, such as former Kyoto Protocol booster Maurice Strong, are against refrigeration period.
“Use your skills of investigation to help the Climate Cops cut down on the climate crimes that are taking place in your home,” the ad campaign, asks in an unabashed attempt to lure children to The Cause.
The npower campaign is part of a growing fad and that shows global warming alarmists have no qualms about using children in a variety of schemes.
In Canada, it’s Global Warming warrior numero uno, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) poster boy David Suzuki encouraging children to rat out their own parents in a treehouse setting televised advertisement (The David Suzuki Foundation YouTube).
The Australian parents of 9-year-olds waking up screaming with nightmares of exploding pigs dying in pools of blood can blame their state-run television network.
Meanwhile, in England “Climate Cops HQ” waits to hear from its new recruits.
And just to think you thought the cost of having Npower supply your gas and electricity was the worst thing about them.
Judi McLeod——
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-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
