Things I don’t understand ||

This takes my breath away - see if the assumptions of this “model” are not an affront to science or even logic.

In Australia, the programme “Planet Slayer” is a popular children’s show on ABC. It appears to be thinly disguised environmentalist propaganda and that “Greenhouse Calculator” took my breath away.

For some reason the less money you spent in a year, the greater the carbon footprint. Does anyone know why?

An Aussie lawyer blogger put it this way

What an evil, evil little application! Just imagine that some impressionable child comes along to the website and finds out that his family should have “died” at the age of 4.3. That is just despicable. It actually reminds me of an incident which occurred when I was 6 years old, involving a Religious Education teacher telling me that my parents were going to hell because they were heathens. (Incidentally, being a logical type, I worked out if she was right, I’d rather be in Hell with Mum and Dad, but if she was wrong, who cares, so either way, I may as well reject her religion with impunity).

These are the kinds of things which just should not be put to a kid. Or to anyone really. The notion of calculating that someone should die because they consume too much carbon is immoral and revolting in the extreme.

Incredible.

By the way, I died at 5.3 years - or at least the pig did. Apparently this means that my share of the carbon pie (this being a zero-sum game) meant that I could only consume at my current rate for 5.3 years before I would “run out”.

If I was a peasant in the third world by comparison, I could live forever!