GPY&R Sydney climate change campaign reaches climax at UN summit
Political, business and religious leaders have been told by the world’s young to stop dithering and take immediate action on climate change as a campaign orchestrated by GPY&R Sydney climaxed at the UN Climate Change Summit.
A video was played at the opening ceremony of the summit in which eight youngsters from across the globe posed questions for world leaders and urged them to take action. They were chosen from 2,500 people aged 13 to 21 who submitted videos for the Why? Why Not campaign.
It was the culmination of a crusade stitched together for Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project by eight WPP agencies and affiliates who were appointed to create a campaign earlier this year.
Marketers beware: take note of the agencies who have drunk the Kool Aid here, and are making value judgements about you and your customers who – like 95% of the population, do not support this religious zealotry dressed up as environmentalism.
Thanks for that Mike.
I hope you feel better.
Now do us all a favour and move on and let some of these young ‘uns get on with doing something positive about a very serious issue.
Very moving. Well done GPY&R !
As soon as I saw “youth” and “climate change” I turned off completely. “Climate change” was invented by Al Gore to boost his business interests. He owns companies which plant trees to provide carbon offsets and he is involved with merchant banking firms which benefit from futures markets dealing in emissions trading schemes. I certainly hope the people behind this ad do not try and rort the broadcasting laws by trying to get it classified as a community service announcement forcing TV stations to show it for free. I’m proud to say I got those “One Million Women For Climate Change” ads taken off the air in 2010 after I complained to ACMA that they were not community service announcements, but were in fact political advertising and the “One Million Women” had to pay to get them shown.