Sex sells…but will it get people to contact their political leaders in the name of climate change?
That’s what 22 year old model Cameron Russell was aiming for when she produced the video below of models stripping in the name of climate change. Cameron explains,
We were so inspired by the pictures we saw coming in from around the world on 350.org , that we wanted to help. We figured we’d try to get the point across the best way we know how–with clothes, or really, with the lack of clothes.
Who ever said that 350 parts per million is our “natural state”? After all, the past million years or so has CO2 levels see-sawed between about 180 and 285 parts per million. The 350 is a ‘best estimate’, best calculation as to the safe level of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere for a prosperous human civilization.
Right now, humanity is adding enough Co2 into the carbon cycle (mainly, but not solely, from burning fossil fuels) to add about 2 ppm per year. We need to drive down our emissions that drive increased CO2 levels and then continue the process so that we are actually reducing CO2 levels.
So what next, pole dancing for climate change ? (I’m imaging polar bears in bikini’s. Is that sick and wrong?)
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October 28th, 2009 at 12:08 am
I love that image of polar bears in bikinis. I hope an illustrator reads this and submits a rendering of it.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
not enough sacrifice, not even nude, don’t they care about the planet!?
November 4th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Climate Change made the typhoons in the south pacific very destructive. Typhoon Ketsana made a lot of mess in Philippines and Vietnam
November 6th, 2009 at 5:14 am
[...] by endangered adults in 181 countries. Or, might be all we need have been the little supermodels stripping for the consequence of meridian shift [...]
January 24th, 2010 at 11:46 am
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