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The other day we told you about Google’s Earth Hour silliness, which probably ended up wasting more electricity than it saved. And you know that Google, despite its eco-friendly lip service (click service?), is an energy glutton. Well, the search-engine titan still isn’t done using up vast resources to tell everybody else how to live. According to Fishwrap:
A group of environmental activists has enlisted Google to help flood the congressional switchboard with one million phone calls on Earth Day urging lawmakers to enact eco-friendly measures.
“We’re really excited about this because Congress keeps saying they don’t hear from the American public on climate change,” said Kathleen Rogers, president of Earth Day Network, which bills itself as an eco-activism group connecting some 17,000 organizations in 174 countries. “The [presidential] candidates are not being asked about climate change. Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity that we’ve ever faced.”
Rogers said her group is finalizing talks with Internet giant Google to coordinate online advertisements and other publicity measures in support of the calls. Details of the arrangement are still being worked out and are scheduled to be released on April 14.
Yay, screechy Global Warming hysteria. If we don’t flood Congress with artificially generated phone calls, WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!! Hey, do phones use electricity? They’re solar-powered or something, right?
Maybe this is another one of Google’s April Fool’s gags. If so, ya got me.
(Thanks to Deceiver reader Jenn for the tip.)
P.S. Thanks to reader Jailbones for reminding me about Google co-founder Larry Page’s trip to Richard Branson’s private island in the Caribbean last month to discuss Global Warming. They were joined by several other rich jerks, including none other than Tony Blair. (Do you think they all swam there?) Here’s the lede from the New York Times story:
Richard Branson was lounging under the starry midnight sky on this palm-dappled speck of an island recently when he popped a sobering question.
“So, do we really think the world is on fire?” Branson, the British magnate and adventurer, asked several guests, as a manservant scurried off to fetch him another glass of pinot grigio.
Read the rest, if you can stand it.
