Ford to World: " Global Warming, Melting Glaciers and Stranded Polar Bears"

[IChing]

Ford doesn't have a clue



The complete full-page ad from The Hindustan Times, June 25, 2007.
An ad campaign launched today by Ford India seems to be making a mockery of worldwide resistance to global warming. It shows an iceberg apparently destroyed by the SUV and a couple of polar bears stranded on a thin ice sheet.







See full photo here in zip form plus the add at Ford's site.

http://orangehues.com/blog/2007/06/ford-to-world-we-promise-global-warming.html

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. May the Polar Bear of Happiness bite them in the ass.

[Uncle Joe]

2. What are all the Xs for? n/t

[IChing]

3. 4X4 if you see the zip format it has destroyed a glacier

[Uncle Joe]

4. To say they're shortsighted

is to say the Titanic had an accident. I can't believe the levels of stupidity, insensitivity and just outright greed they've surpassed!:wow:

[rec_report]

5. OMG!!! K&R.

And, I am going to keep kicking this one.
:mad:
Polar Bear

[LSK]

6. doesnt a lot of India flood if the oceans rise?

:shrug:

[IChing]

7. Yes and the Indian blogger was outraged

Bangladesh would most likely have 13 million people displaced because of flooding.
US auto makers either have no clue or don't care. I go with don't care and the bottom dollar.

[bananas]

11. That looks like an interesting blog

I just read another entry "The failure of non-violence":

<snip>
In a way, Roy predicted - three years ago - the changing face of resistance movements around the country that we're witnessing today in Nandigram and elsewhere.
<snip>
http://orangehues.com/blog/2007/06/quote-on-failure-of-non-violence.html

[texastoast]

8. Deplorable

The creatures behind such marketing astound me. I don't guess they ever think about what is going to happen to their children. Or maybe they really, really don't care. I hope they are written up in history as such, naming names.

[rec_report]

9. Great! This thread got 5 recs; It's on the 'Greatest' page!

:) -Polar Bear

[Mind_your_head]

10. The people who designed and approved this ad

are clearly out of their freaking minds!!! (or they secretly work for one of Ford's competitors? :shrug:)

This ad is all at once obscene, grotesque, deplorable, and vile!

[Chulanowa]

12. "Freedom"?

I hate how America turns meaningful words into meaningless and jingoistic ad campaigns.

[PBS Poll-435]

13. I just have ONE thing to ask you.

Why do you hate our "Freedom?"

:evilgrin:

[Chulanowa]

14. Because I'm an unwashed hippy socialist secularist

who loves abortion and wants to convert the world to Islam while spitting on an American flag with a bunch of gay Mexicans.

...Haven't you heard?!