# Spare me the doe-eyed children pontificating on global warming
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 7, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886 "2007-07-07T18:40:47Z")
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### Author:  [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/1 "2007-07-07T18:40:47Z")
I KNEW it would come!
The predictable dreck that is Live Earth finally made good one of my earliest predictions…the use of adorable kids to impart their knowledge of what is best for our planet.
Just before 2:30 EST there was a commercial - I guess it wasn’t really a commercial at all, but anyway - with close ups of precocious youngsters pontificating about what global warming is. My GOD how did these children get to be so _WISE_?
Conveniently there were children of sufficient intelligence and photogenenic prowess of diverse backgrounds available to shoot this spot.
A nerdy looking white kid explains how the green house gases wrap the earth in a blanket, a glass-eyed asia girl looks concerned as she tells us that our society today is causing the problem (she bites her lip in worry). A little black girl informs us that this isn’t good for human beings (big pause…) she looks into the camera and says “like me.”
I predicted this saccharine approach, down to the background music…spare tinkling piano in a minor key.
SPARE ME!
Sorry I have to run. I can hear the band on the TV in the other room and he said today they are making history. I have got to see it! I think they are…PLAYING MUSIC!
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/2 "2007-07-07T18:53:38Z")
**Spare me the doe-eyed children pontificating on global warming**
**Nope**.
I had to put up with that ‘wisdom of children’ crusade Bush put on after the events of 9/11, so _you’ve_ got to put up with it when it’s used by _your_ enemies.
Anything less would be _unfair_.
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### Author:  [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/3 "2007-07-07T19:00:05Z")
[QUOTE=Squink]
**Spare me the doe-eyed children pontificating on global warming**
**Nope**.
I had to put up with that ‘wisdom of children’ crusade Bush put on after the events of 9/11, so _you’ve_ got to put up with it when it’s used by _your_ enemies.
Anything less would be _unfair_.
[/QUOTE]
Who are my enemies?
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### Author:  [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/4 "2007-07-07T19:32:21Z")
[QUOTE=newcrasher]
Who are my enemies?
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Clearly, the people who are putting on Live Earth, as evidenced by your [two](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=427854) whiny threads you have started on the subject in the last couple of hours. Just turn off your damn TV and take a walk or something.
Unless it’s too hot out.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/5 "2007-07-07T19:44:21Z")
[QUOTE=newcrasher]
Who are my enemies?
[/QUOTE]
[These people will tell you.](http://www.foxnews.com/)
…so their minds are soft and lazy.
Well, hey, give 'em what they want… ☹
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/6 "2007-07-07T19:51:15Z")
I don’t care who’s trying to push what agenda. The use of earnest cutesy kids in schmaltzy commercials to ask why I won’t think of them makes me want to roll my eyes so thoroughly that they might get stuck that way. Ugh. Probably just simpler to throw a brick through my TV and go for a walk, though.
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### Author:  [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/7 "2007-07-07T19:52:51Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher]
[These people will tell you.](http://www.foxnews.com/)
…so their minds are soft and lazy.
Well, hey, give 'em what they want… ☹
[/QUOTE]
So I have to be a conservative Fox watcher to have a critical thought about GW or how it is presented vis a vis Live Earth? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/8 "2007-07-07T19:58:34Z")
Oh man you can keep that treacly shit.
When I think about the perfect kid it’s the [11-year-old drunk driver girl](http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN7643378320070706?feedType=RSS) in Alabama.
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### Author:  [@alreadymichigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alreadymichigan)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/9 "2007-07-07T20:00:10Z")
[QUOTE=newcrasher]
So I have to be a conservative Fox watcher to have a critical thought about GW or how it is presented vis a vis Live Earth? :dubious:
[/QUOTE]
Yes, this is correct.
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### Author:  [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/10 "2007-07-07T20:12:45Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane]
Clearly, the people who are putting on Live Earth, as evidenced by your [two](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=427854) whiny threads you have started on the subject in the last couple of hours. Just turn off your damn TV and take a walk or something.
Unless it’s too hot out.
[/QUOTE]
I am just glad someone out there is paying attention.
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/11 "2007-07-07T21:40:15Z")
If anything, smaltzy kids make me\* less \* want to give to a cause, purely on principle.
And before anyone starts, no, this doesn’t mean I won’t give anything at all. I just choose a different organisation.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/12 "2007-07-07T21:54:08Z")
It’s bad enough when the juvenile save-the-earth crowd appears on _radio_ public service announcements.
While addressing climate change is on my list of environmental concerns, when I hear these programmed little turds going on about what I need to do, it makes me feel like jumping in my (nonexistent) Hummer and storming down the Interstate at 90 mph, squashing Bambi and doing triumphant wheelies as I go.
The producers of these spots need to consider the backlash effect.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/13 "2007-07-07T23:59:28Z")
[QUOTE=Frank]
I don’t care who’s trying to push what agenda. The use of earnest cutesy kids in schmaltzy commercials to ask why I won’t think of them makes me want to roll my eyes so thoroughly that they might get stuck that way.
[/QUOTE]
Same here. It doesn’t matter if I happen to agree with whatever agenda they are selling. Besides the cutesinesss, it bothers me that the kids are almost certainly being used. Oh, in this case and some others, they are in the right; they are the ones who’ll pay the price for our actions. Thing is, that’s not why they are doing stuff like this; they are just serving as mouthpieces for adults, as tools.
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### Author:  [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/14 "2007-07-08T00:16:43Z")
The peturnaturally wise child got old about 15 minutes after _Dune_ was published. And, oh yeah, that was fiction. No more faux Alia marketing tools, thanks.
_The Zoom-Zoom kid is first against the wall when the AdBusters revolution comes_
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/15 "2007-07-08T01:40:29Z")
If we can learn to tolerate doe-eyed children shilling for the AARP, we can learn to tolerate anything.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/16 "2007-07-08T02:06:59Z")
On the news last night coverage of the event featured some cute preteen attendee earnestly saying in extreme close-up, “Our earth rocks. If we destroy it we will have no where to live.” I laughed.
Later footage showed one of the acts telling the audience, “We have to protect the planet, it’s the only one we’ve got.”
It was only then that I understood the depth of their intellectual commitment.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/17 "2007-07-08T02:12:50Z")
[QUOTE=El Cid Viscoso]
Oh man you can keep that treacly shit.
When I think about the perfect kid it’s the [11-year-old drunk driver girl](http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN7643378320070706?feedType=RSS) in Alabama.
[/QUOTE]
I know the ads will change for the next user, but I almost swallowed a taco when I saw that the
**11-year-old charged with driving drunk**
News article has right on top the text:
\*\*Smart Thinking Stories, brought to you by Hundai. \*\* :eek: 🙂
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/18 "2007-07-08T02:17:55Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask]
On the news last night coverage of the event featured some cute preteen attendee earnestly saying in extreme close-up, “Our earth rocks. If we destroy it we will have no where to live.” I laughed.
Later footage showed one of the acts telling the audience, “We have to protect the planet, it’s the only one we’ve got.”
It was only then that I understood the depth of their intellectual commitment.
[/QUOTE]
In terms of the level of intellectual commitment we can reasonably expect of preteens, you should be very highly impressed indeed.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/19 "2007-07-08T05:15:54Z")
In all fairness, the children should be a helluva lot more worried about the way we’re wrecking the planet than us old fogeys. I’ve got about 40, 45 years left in me, and I think things will stay together for that long. 80 more years? I don’t know about that. Poor little shits. (This was serious sarcasm, for anyone wondering.)
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spare-me-the-doe-eyed-children-pontificating-on-global-warming/410886/20 "2007-07-08T05:51:23Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs]
Same here. It doesn’t matter if I happen to agree with whatever agenda they are selling. Besides the cutesinesss, it bothers me that the kids are almost certainly being used. Oh, in this case and some others, they are in the right; they are the ones who’ll pay the price for our actions. Thing is, that’s not why they are doing stuff like this; they are just serving as mouthpieces for adults, as tools.
[/QUOTE]
I couldn’t have worded it better. People who use kids as tools are _tools_ themselves.
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