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green-agenda
June 2nd, 2008, 01:49 AM
Planet Slayer - a “kids” games at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It tells kids depending on their magical “carbon footprint” how long they should live!

The actual title is “Professor Schpinkee’s Greenhouse Calculator - find out when you should die!” - quote: "When you are finished click on the skull to find out what age you should die at so you don't use more than your fair share of the Earth's resources."

The images depict humans as carbon-emitting pigs. Play it and see what they are doing to your children! I answered the questions and was informed that I should have killed myself at age 4.8!!

The thing I find amazing is the average foot print is 24.6 tonnes of CO2, which calculates out to 9.3 years old! Where it tells the child “YOU SHOULD DIE AT THE AGE 9.3!”

http://www.abc.net.au/science/planetslayer/greenhouse_calc.htm

jayel
June 2nd, 2008, 04:10 AM
Yeah, that's pretty messed up. Silly expendable humans, going around actually doing stuff on earth.:rolleyes

According to this, I should have killed myself at 8.9. On the bright side, if you answer all the questions the way they want you to, it tells you you can live forever. How sweet of them!

saulteux
June 2nd, 2008, 09:38 AM
I should have croaked at the age of 3 :D

Wonder how mad they'd be if they knew I'm an avid hunter and fisher?

Barachem
June 2nd, 2008, 10:42 AM
9.1 for me.

What nonsense.
Carbon footprint my donkey's behind... :tsk
Environmentalism at its worst. :thinking

icebear
June 2nd, 2008, 11:03 AM
mine said i get to live forever :idunno


i must have done it wrong?:scratch

Southern Lady
June 2nd, 2008, 01:32 PM
7.2 for me. Thank the Lord I outlived myself.

lyngraphics
June 2nd, 2008, 01:38 PM
5.7 for me....

NewWorldOrder
June 2nd, 2008, 01:39 PM
I'm sorry, but this is just sick and demented. How horrible to send a message to children that they should only live a certain amount of time, or the they'll be destroying the earth. That is very irresponsible. I think the people who put this together have been alive too long, and it's time they took themselves out, they're using up valuable oxygen the rest of us could be using. :doh

jds6958
June 2nd, 2008, 01:41 PM
I should die at age 2...my pig exploded and left a mess...

I should be flying less, buying less, and driving less this year (just started taking the bus/metro) as a means to prepare better for the economy. I could care less about a carbon footprint.

KBKMNN
June 2nd, 2008, 03:10 PM
3.8 for me. Ugh! Awful! They're so full of......well, you know.................