Layers and Nuance
and bovine flatulence
Audi’s “Green Police” Super Bowl ad was clearly out to mock environmentalist fervor --
...if you say so
The implication: You can only escape the zealots if you buckle under and forego plastic grocery bags for paper (when you should be bringing your own, but you knew that).
said the compliant ‘zealot’
One moment in particular resonated with San Franciscans: A man standing at a sink prepares to dump a rind in his sink’s disposal unit—an act ostensibly banned by San Francisco’s new composting mandate, one of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s many green initiatives.
No, rly.
[teh ad] was enough to get Newsom, who has pushed for the type of recycling and composting mandates that give the spot its believably authoritarian edge, was moved to tweet, “Ok .. That “green police” Audi commercial hits home."
Then the author of the piece presents his own credentials:
Jackson West laughed when he heard “clean diesel,” because you only need to see one blasted mountain range to never believe the “clean coal” lie.
Posted by Claire on 02/09 at 07:43 AM
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