Blogger A. Siegel has stumbled across a pretty embarrassing spectacle put on earlier this year byย Lexus.
As part of the launch of their โDarker Side of Greenโ Campaign, Lexus held a debate, hosted by comedian Sarah Silverman about whether climate change is actuallyย happening.
Pretty unbelievable that this would get through their vetting process, unless of course they thought it was edgy or shocking enough to sell moreย cars.
Either way the debate did nothing more than propagate the myth that climate change is somehow not happening or something we need to worryย about.
I would expect this kind of thing from the likes of former tobacco company spindoctors like the Heartland Institute than I would a company trying to promote their hybridย car.
You would also think that a debate about a complicated scientific issue like climate change would involve actual scientists who do research in the field. Instead, Lexus chose to have a filmmaker, whoโs last film was a propaganda piece paid for by a mining company and a journalist (who made the best of a sillyย situation).
And the filmmaker, Phelim McAleer, does a good job embarrassing himself but that is beside theย point.
Whatever carbon emissions Lexus thinks itโs going to reduce with its new hybrid were probably equaled out by the hot air produced at this ridiculous debate over something the likes of NASA and the US Academy of Science say is a real problem and something that needs to beย addressed.
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