Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / July 2008

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051816/posts
Global Warming Game Tells Children They Should Die
HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ^ | August 2008 | Maureen Martin and Aleks Karnick
Posted on Saturday, July 26, 2008 4:25:55 PM by Delacon

Are global warming alarmists encouraging children to commit suicide
because their carbon footprints supposedly are harming the planet?

It certainly appears so in a children's game concocted by the state-
funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Science Department,
available online.

'Pigs' Should Die Young

The game is called Planet Slayer. Using it, children can calculate
their carbon footprint--how much impact their carbon emissions
allegedly have on global warming. The purpose for doing so, children
were told in a version of the game that was online in early June, is
so they can "find out what age you should die at so you don't use more
than your fair share of Earth's resources." The game now asks only,
"are you a carbon hog?"

After answering 11 lifestyle questions, children click on a skull and
crossbones. If a child is an "average" greenhouse "pig" or worse, the
cartoon pig explodes into pieces, and its blood drains from its body
and pools on the floor. Average "pigs," according to the site, should
die at 9.3 years old. The worst possible "pigs" should die at 1.3
years old.

"It is an insensitive game," said Ronald Bailey, science correspondent
for the Reason Foundation. "It implies that it is better for the
planet that children die before they can grow up to harm the
environment."

<rest of article at link above>

The game, which I do NOT recommend for kids, is at
http://www.abc.net.au/science/planetslayer/greenhouse_calc.htm ,