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ArtDeco's avatar

No comments yet ? The "use less paper" woman is brilliant. But no April Fools Day joke can compare to a certain "Bible Salesman " whose been in the news lately.

There should be plenty of SolarPunk humor available, and it's certainly needed.

Most anything coming from any fossil fuel company marketing department today would be funny if it wasn't so serious... I have some old ads from the oil companies somewhere that I'll post if I can find them ....

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Found a whole feature from the Guardian on old oil company ads ... not really funny but it's a start. I'll keep looking...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/18/the-forgotten-oil-ads-that-told-us-climate-change-was-nothing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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SolarPunk Stories's avatar

That Humble added about burning through the glacier is darkly humorous

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Probably seemed quite ironic to the "C level" oil executives at the time, since they were aware of facts and projections unknown to the marketing people.

The "make a better world " cartoon is much better known...I have re-posted it myself . "Better for whom?" Is the underlying question the one percent will always ask themselves...

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meant to write *advert

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Advertising from the turn of the century is humorous to anyone except an oil company executive in our era. The "guilded age" of big oil and big pharma still runs.

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