green peter
By alice | May 25, 2006
I have heard various pieces of worrying news from England since relocating, some from a certain younger member of the family whose finger is so much on the pulse I sometimes wonder if there is such a thing as having your finger too much on the pulse. For example, some months ago my source revealed that everyone is going to be forced to wear necklaces with their name, address and personal details printed on. Thankfully this has not yet come to pass, although perhaps one day it might.
But this morning there was much worse news than ID necklaces: Blue Peter, the popular children’s magazine show renowned among old folk like me mostly for the time when an elephant used it as a rest-room (scroll down a bit, or to the bottom for a video clip) and for Mr Noakes’ world record-breaking bruises (was he the first ever TV presenter to show his a** on television without being arrested?), has now been renamed Green Peter in order to save the world. Apparently this had been announced on the news and everything, and been witnessed in the flesh (or on the TV) and was therefore incontrovertibly correct.
Fortunately my own young folks are not especially terrified of the planet turning into a ball of fire. Original Daughter joined the global warming campaign in a constructive way yesterday by making a green lunch (apple, peas in pods, pasta with basil pesto): then switched sides and became an advocate of he planet’s heat-generation today, with an orange lunch (satsuma, carrots, pasta with sun-dried-tomato pesto).
And I notice that even the BBC now seems to have noticed that scaring the hell out of the young, who can’t do much about it anyway, may not necessarily be the way to go:
“We know from the thousands of e-mails we get that they are passionate and active about green issues,” he added. “Many are understandably scared about the future of their planet and how this will affect them. “Green Peter won’t be a list of scare stories – the purpose will be to focus on what is being done, what can be done and what needs to be done.” I do hope so.
Anyway, I decided to check this horrifying tale out on the interwebs, and was most relieved to discover that as it turns out, the recolouring of Blue Peter was only a temporary mishap. So we may all rest easily in your beds for a little while longer. Nightmares of being roasted alive aside, of course.
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May 25th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
“Global warNing campaign”?
If it was just that, we all could safely ignore the annoyance and procede with our daily activities at our own risk.
No, it’s a bit more than that. Here’s a great series on the topic (if in not-perfect English) I highly recommend.
May 25th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Ah, a Freudian slip! Amazing. I suppose I’d better correct that now, although it seems a shame…