Tag: wwf

I need to do another Countup from Dystopia post…

…because this problem isn’t going away.  And by ‘problem’ I mean ‘the rolling date for Apocalypse’ that seems to exercise a certain class of perpetual professional activists.  Latest version: we have eighteen years to find a second Earth to live on.  That is, if we listen to the World Wildlife Fund, which apparently also thinks that we should all use the average Indonesian’s ration of resources.  Indonesia, where the average per-capita GDP is $4,700 and half the population lacks basic sanitation.

Ach, well, the WWF needs to eat, too. I mean, have you seen the price of fair-trade coffee, lately?  That lifestyle ain’t cheap to maintain…

Moe Lane

BBC’s Chris Packham calls for panda’s extinction with dignity.

(Via AoSHQ Headlines) I know that I’ve made some pointed comments about Ailuropoda melanoleuca’s collective will to live, but I never dared take it to the next step. Chris Packham, on the other hand…

Giant pandas should be allowed to die out as they are stuck in an ‘evolutionary cul-de-sac’, according to BBC presenter Chris Packham.

The conservationist, 48, said the species was not strong enough to survive on its own and it would be better to let nature take its course.

This got a response from the WWF, once they could find a spokesman who didn’t have an aneurysm on the spot at the thought of letting their logo go extinct. Said response more or less boils down to this:

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“See The Panda. It’s Our Fault. Love The Panda. We’re Taking Their Mountains Away. Protect The Panda. Give Us Money. Money For The Pandas.”

Well, at least they aren’t taking NEA payola.

Probably.

Moe Lane

PS: I wasn’t joking about the dignity thing, although I thought that I was. Packham, again:

‘I reckon we should pull the plug. Let them go, with a degree of dignity.’

These people are hard to parody, sometimes.