Monday, December 30, 2013

"Frozen" Climate Change PSA (Proposed)

The recent Disney animated movie Frozen has a character (Elsa, Queen of Arendelle) who can cause things to freeze, including her entire kingdom. This is treated as a negative thing in the movie, and at the end she thaws everything out. Oh, but we know that thawing out the Arctic is having some, shall we say, unintended consequences in the real world. And since Elsa is the Ice Queen, I think she would make a good ambassador for the issue of climate change for PSAs aimed at the younger generation.

Here's how this PSA would work: Elsa, Ice Queen of Arendelle from the Disney movie Frozen, would be playing and having snowball fights with her friends out in the beautiful frozen land of Arendelle, and she would notice someone is filming her, stop playing and speak to the camera, saying: "Hi, I'm Elsa. In the movie Frozen, I have the power to freeze the whole kingdom, but in real life, I don't have any super powers. So the more the climate warms up, the more we lose our beautiful winter wonderland. And while I can't do anything about it, you can! Please join with us to help save the climate at (whatever organization), and help keep the Arctic Frozen!"

(And yes, I see the irony of writing a climate change ad right now.)