Posted by Armando Alves | 22-01-2008 00:52 | Category:
The video below reminds us that we’re all responsible for gases released into atmosphere, thus causing global warming.
The end rhyme goes something like this: “Fart fart, and the greenhouse effect goes up the chart”
Advertiser: Quercus Agency: BBDO Lab, Portugal Additional credits:
By João Ribeiro and Nuno Fernandes for environmental group Quercus.
Comments
jeej! There should be more farting in advertising.
They are kind of losing me by ending with visuals of cows taking a shit and a (human?) farting (hard!) in his bed.
Makes it look like our farts and not our shitty use of natural recourses are to blame.
Posted by jeroen | 22-01-2008 03:21
eat activated charcoal ;-)
Posted by ipub | 22-01-2008 21:29
the cow shit is responsible for lots of CO2 emissions. Its a message to eat less meat. The human fart is a metaphore. I like this ad very much!
Posted by Luis | 6-02-2008 16:27
Indeed the emissions from cows (methane - often more problematic than c02)) are one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases produced in agricultural countries, such as New Zealand. I guess this add does remind us that there are many different faucets to global warming.
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