Okay, it’s not really called the “Green Arrogance” ad, but it might as well be. This is a print ad that’s in the August 1, 2011 issue of The New Yorker magazine, and it just shows a cell-phone that looks like a little Blackberry with solar panels on the back of it. Oh, and there’s that 3-D cartoon rendering of the “Droid”, representing (I guess) the android operating system that the phone runs on. But that “Droid” has always looked to me more like an Iron Man-type suit for a little green Martian, rather than a droid anyway. I say it’s here to take over Earth, not to help save it!
Oh, about that “not to help save it” part: I forgot to mention that the headline for this ad reads: “Let’s save some money. Oh, and the planet.” That’s why I call it the “Green Arrogance” ad. As if using a solar-rechargeable cell-phone would “save the planet” any more than not having a cell-phone to begin with. These guys are just shameless liars! Buying a product that’s slightly less poisonous than their other ones will hardly “save the planet”, unless what they mean is that it will save the planet from the pollution from their own products! And it won’t even do that; it will simply poison Earth a little bit less. The nerve of some people/companies!
I can’t find this ad online either, but you can see it in the new issue of The New Yorker magazine on page 7.
