1984: Lies they tell our children (Mobil)
Why Are They Lying to Our Children?
"I don't have a future." With tears streaming down her face, a 13-year-old girl made this bleak assessment to her father. To back up her pessimism, she had brought home from school a mimeographed sheet listing the horrors that awaited her generation in the next 25 years: Worldwide famine, overpopulation, air pollution so bad that everyone would wear a gas mask, befouled rivers and streams that would mandate cleansing tablets in drinking water... a greenhouse effect that would melt the polar ice caps and devastate U.S. coastal cities... a cancer epidemic brought on by damage to the ozone layer. Moved by the girl's misery, her father, Herbert I. London of the Hudson Institute and New York University, wrote a book, Why Are They Lying to Our Children? The book documents how some of the myths of the 1960s and 1970sā¦
Who: Mobil
Advert: New York Times, 1984
Methane: 1644.85 ppb
Source: The New York Times
1985: Land will be replanted (Chevron)
The explored land will be replanted so it will soon look as if no one had ever been there.
In a den high in Montana's black feet country a Grizzly settles for a long winter's nap unaware that down below people with motors and machinery will explore for oil through deep winter but before she wakes the people will be gone. The explored land will be replanted so it will soon look as if no one had ever been there. Do people sometimes work through the winter so nature can have spring all to herself... people do.
Who: Chevron
Advert: National and Regional TV networks, 1980ās
Methane: 1657.29 ppb
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