Humor
Environmentalists (and Feminists, not coincidentally?) are often accused of being humorless, even prophets of gloom. Nonsense, humor is a key way to stay sane in the face of the daunting forces and problems we are standing up to (in fact ridicule is an important weapon, as we recently saw when the Heartland climate skeptic conference went bellyup when they overplayed their hand with silly billboards (generate your own!).
See also Culture Jamming.
The Yes Men did a talk at ESLP at UCSC. Their new (3rd) movie is The Yes Men Are Revolting launhced 6/15.. Community Studies graduate Jen Lopez ('07) talking about her career and working as a line producer with The Yes Men on their recent movie. video interview.
Trump and Exxon discuss Arctic drilling.
Funny or Die has a stirring climate denier anthem 12/15. ***
Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley, Jr. Mock Fossil Fuel Industry in Funny or Die Video;Hidden Camera Prank Exposes Absurdity of Climate Deniers’ Arguments , alt link.
Aziz Ansari Blasts Factory Farming for Cruelty to Chickens see Food.
Jon Stewart Has The Perfect Response To Florida's Climate Change Denial 3/15.
John Oliver and Bill Nye Put the Climate Change Debate to Rest (video); More on Daily Show and climate.
Al Gore will rule the world 10/15.
Festival of Fake Hypotheses Generates Real Laughs a sort of spinoff of the Ig Nobel Prize competition.
Comedians Andy Cobb and Mike Damanskis have a new video about the ExxonMobil oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas called Exxon - Energy Everywhere. See Oil.
"Science Fair Nightmare," conceived and directed by Andy Cobb, takes on climate change denial.
Guy Stuck Alone In Airport Remakes Entire Celine Dion Music Video, Has A Great Time.alt
Louis CK on land use and climate change (strong language).
Frakalypse Now: DeSmogBlog partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore to produce this spoof video in the vein of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now." Making its debut in honor of Gasland 2, which features the details of the gas industry's psychological warfare scandal.
“Head-Bangers” In Mark Fiore’s new cartoon, he pokes fun at the backward logic of those who want to maintain the fossil fuel status quo in the face of climate change.
While away the pre-apocalypse laughing at these randomly generated eco-doom headlines.
Mr Burns speaks up for Chevron: We Agree
Coal powerplant snow globe. Canadian tar sands globe.
What cities are really made of (red pill warning)
Shell Arctic drill fail video. Yes Men also have a billboard. 7.12 Weather girl goes rogue video.
Humor: video. Evil mad scientists are clearly behind all energy innovations humor/. US is T-Rex of energy use.
All the insanity of modern car culture, in one image
Penn and Teller's humorous take on the subject of bottled water.
Good use for plastic bottles? (humor).
Fun mockumentary on the plastic bag. alt link
Stephen Colbert appeared with United Farm Workers (UFW) President Arturo S. Rodriguez today to testify before Congress about a day he spent working in the fields, having taken up the UFW on its dare to American citizens "take our jobs." (Humor)
Lord of the Rings recycling parody (video).
The Ig Nobel Prizes for science that cannot and should not be replicated. video. Humor for geeks. The mayor of Vilnius ran over a Mercedes parked in a bike lane USING A TANK? (video) He's just won an Ig Nobel prize, the coveted award for research (or, you know, a mayoral publicity stunt) that first makes people laugh, then makes them think.
How Not to save the world (humorous short animated video)
The I'm-a-PC guy explains design. TEDtalk.
Writing Commas save lives. Typo costs man three years in prison. Loss of half million dollar spacecraft. sign fail.
Bulwer-Lytton bad writing prize for 2012.
