Appalled at youngsters lack of interest in climate change and greenery the presenter went looking for a solution and found it in academia.
5 Universities, no less, have projects inviting Young People to come up with 'cool gadgets' to get other youngsters engaged and make Green Cool, "that is the key, not us oldies preaching at them". One such gadget places sensors all around the home, these detect the young persons power useage from ipods, X boxes, TVs, phone chargers and, if it decides the Young Person is being Green it lights up a "happy icon" on their Facebook Status page.
How fucking cool is that!!!
Another nerdy child (US Dorky kid) came up with clothing that has photo-electric cells attached to power up your phone on the move. Now it's been some decades since I took an interest in Yoof Fashion but I can imagine no generation that might think it cool to arrive with bits of metal dangling off you and with wires sticking out (post-punk irony perhaps?).
He also found someone who has developed a computer strategy game based on Climate Change and all things Green who again feels that it is important not to lecture Young People but to let them discover for themselves the consequences of mans recklessness through gaming. For instance if the player opts for a strategy of promoting biofuels to stave off peak oil and save the environment that will lead him to discover consequent starvation in the third world but, "oh no, it's not lecturing, they discover it for themselves."
He conceded that he might struggle in a market dominated by the likes of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario Galaxy and World Of Warcraft but thinks that Young People might take it up if they were given it as a present (yeah, just like I was given 'improving' books as a child which went unread).
They managed to corner one child who said that he "might take a look at it to see what he needed to do to "turn the world into a burning hell-hole". His very words, bless.
4 comments:
This sounds like something Van Jones would like.
The bottom line is that they target the youth who they can manipulate.
Banned, this is by far your gayest post, except for maybe the one before.
GREEN is GAY!
What a bunch of greenie crap. I'm sure the brats won't like it, if they are on their x-box all day, surely using all that energy can't be 'green".
This is pretty gay, hee hee. Well, if it came from o, van J & co., how could it not be?
Many watches are now kinetic powered, with a miniature electrical generator.
Simply hook up the output from the generator to the National Grid, give the kid a copy of Playboy & every time he has a five-finger shuffle, we save a gram of CO2.
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