Read this excerpt from a post on Light Refreshments (link on the left side bar):
What is annoying to me is how environmentalism is everywhere and preaches to you like you’re some kind of idiot. Do you remember when NBC “went green” for a week? What, you don’t watch a lot of TV? Let me fill you in. For one entire week, the Thursday night line-up (from My Name is Earl to the Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs, and ER) talked about ways we can save the environment. Even the peacock at the bottom of the screen was all green. (Hmmm, not the color of the rainbow, but one singular color. I’m sure there’s some symbolism there). The writers wrote little sub-plots that incorporated tips for all of us common-folk to use in our daily lives. Our favorite characters talked about how much energy was saved by changing a simple light-bulb or how riding a bike or taking the bus to work saves both money and the WORLD. The entire world. It was pathetic and so heavy-handed that its infomercial script took me out of the story. (Only 30 Rock really pulled it off effortlessly, but that’s because Tina Fey’s a genius). It made me want to litter. I didn’t, but I totally thought about it.
I believe the above mentioned "green" week happened in November while I was in Utah eating Brick Oven take out and Giant Journaling with the besties. I also believe I stated more than once that I was so annoyed with the constant pressure to "go green" that it was actually having the opposite effect on me. I am pretty sure I told Miri and Megan it made me want to go outside and litter.
I'm glad I wasn't alone in my desire to do so. I think NBC missed the mark on that one if their attempt to encourage environmental awareness actually made people want to leave their homes for the sole purpose of littering as if by doing so they would be saying "Take that NBC!"
2 comments:
I hate that too. They try to make us feel so guilty for any slight whatever. I just want those people to actually GO to the Amazon, or even the midwest US and THEN tell me that we're running out of trees... Trees are growing faster far than we could ever cut them down. Anyway, this experience resembles the same one I had when watching the special features for Evan Almighty, which is apparently the first "all-green" movie made. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for taking care of the world God has given us, but seriously, some people take it so far, and are so heavy-handed. Bleh.
so the last two weeks or so that Megan and I lived together, we developed a routine in which we watched What Not to Wear every morning and made fun of all the commercials that drove us crazy. we found ourselves talking almost every day about how weird it was that, even though we are totally in favor of "going green" and helping the environment, we hate the Hollywood campaign for it and it makes us want to not cooperate.
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