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October 3, 2008
Britain's NPower Sponsors 1984, the Ecoversion
Posted by Dave Blount at October 3, 2008 7:42 AM
Welcome to 1984, the ecoversion — sponsored by Britain's NPower:
Kids are expected to keep diaries in which they record their families' environmental sins — a "climate crime case file" — and are urged to talk about the offenses in their classrooms.
It's just a way to raise awareness of global warming and how waste contributes to climate change, nothing more, NPower says, and children won't really be telling on mom and dad anyway.
Don't be duped. One, the threat of kids informing on their parents is implied and should make anyone uncomfortable. Two, the campaign puts into place a foundation — and a mind-set — that a future informant program could operate on.
For example, before long kids might be turning in their parents for eating meat more than four times a week, which we're told will make it be too warm out.
Incremental totalitarianism isn't any easier to live under. It's just harder to fight.
On a tip from General Jack D. Ripper.
