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'Greening' our children: screens and ads don’t help : Comments

By Barbara Biggins, published 27/5/2010

Children are being socialised to consume from an early age: we need to be encouraging them to consume less.

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tongue in cheek no doubt?? I hope.. havent you read clive hamilton?
Posted by sharan, Thursday, 27 May 2010 10:57:54 AM
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Haven't you read Aldous Huxley?
Posted by Houellebecq, Thursday, 27 May 2010 11:02:34 AM
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tongue in cheek was to Houellebecq..just in case of misunderstanding
Posted by sharan, Thursday, 27 May 2010 11:33:05 AM
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What about the children? The future is really going to be a terrible, frightening place .... with people writing articles like this.

If it's not the anti-pops telling us to cut immigration, get rid of the baby bonus, paid maternity leave and international students because the earth's poles are melting, then we have Babs who wants us to stop our kids watching TV because they might buy stuff and by doing so, will destroy the earth.

It's a long, long, long, long, long bow to pull there.

I'm a proud growthist. I want people to have more babies not less. I want kids to play dangerous games, preferably with toys that cost heaps, and have the time of their lives. I want to see a world where intelligence and intuition can immediately see through hokum arguments such as Babs.

I don't want them sitting around in a circle talking about what it means to be a man or woman ala Steve Biddupp and the cult of navel gazing.
Posted by Cheryl, Thursday, 27 May 2010 1:00:57 PM
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The whole of western society is geared toward consumption as an end in itself. As Houellebecq says, it's "the bedrock of economic and social stability" - we have fashioned it that way.
Cheryl may wish for children to enjoy a warped version of life - constantly entertained, force-fed information - at home and at school, no creative input in their lives and a resulting total dislocation from the knowledge that sustains life.
Poor western consumer society - when the bubble bursts, we will be the ones who are helpless.
Posted by Poirot, Thursday, 27 May 2010 3:46:54 PM
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Au contraire Poirot, you know little about kids. They are discriminating little critters who can see through a ridiculous soft soap sell a kilometre a way.

This is going to come as a hell of a shock to some but in the main, we drive one car, eat three meals a day, own or rent one house or abode and generally adhere to a mean when it comes to consumption. The anti-pops have gone down the anti-people path when wiser heads know the issue is energy.

Does this article by Babs not seem to you, well, odd? It's tenet is that we need to indoctrinate kids not to be consumers (quality? quantity? - what metrics does she use?) in order to save the planet from ..... what?

I personally like these articles. They take a certain form. Posit reasonable suggestion, add layer upon layer of unsubstantiated rhetoric and then make a wildly sweeping statement that vainly tries to tie the original premise with a barking mad conclusion.
Posted by Cheryl, Thursday, 27 May 2010 4:12:50 PM
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