by Alessio Sciurpa
The protests raised against the WWF campaign that has covered Manhattan in the last few days (there is also a video version), sparked the ire of many New Yorkers who were preparing to commemorate 9/11, opens an interesting question:
It is lawful manipulate an event like this?
I can still make two comments:
- The first is: equate the two events, 9 / 11 and the tsunami of 2004, and the difference in their victims, allow also to equate the brutality of the earth (as stated in the campaign’s payoff) with the brutality of man. 9/11 is a deliberate act, the tsunami is a fact of natural origin. Albeit with the same brutality, the nature of itself does not kill intentionally, though the impact human activities on the natural cycles is well established.
- The second is that on the wave of the campaign, several media have also reported the new warning on climate change launched by the WWF at the Geneva Conference: approximately one quarter of world population (1,687,704,845 people) is threatened by flooding (tsunami, etc ) due to the melting of Arctic glaciers. Only the 2004 tsunami did 28mila victims.
The ratio between the data is obvious. But without this campaign, this new alarm would go unnoticed? Or the outrage at a campaign strongly emotional, risk rather damaging the image of who proposes it and the message you want to convey?
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