As many as 22 civil society groups in South Africa want PR and ad agencies to stop doing business with fossil fuel companies.In an open letter, 22 civil society organisations call on public relations and ad agencies to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry.
The letter, organised by Clean Creatives South Africa – part of a global movement of advertisers and PR professionals and their clients cutting ties with fossil fuel companies – was published on Human Rights Day, 21 March. the Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation, the Centre for Environmental Rights and shareholder activist group Just Share.
It shows that more than a century of burning fossil fuels, coupled with unsustainable energy and land use has escalated global warming which is around 1.1°C above pre-industrial levels. As part of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, 195 countries in 2015 agreed to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Speaking to News24, Clean Creatives SA country director Stephen Horn said that the civil society organisations are on the"frontlines every day pushing a message of climate responsibility and other human rights-related issues", but their work is"undermined" by the advertising and creative industry which is promoting fossil fuel companies.
_Business AND if you look at the photo there's always one with green, pink or blue hair and a handful of masked musketeers. Always.
_Business Carbon con. What a load of bs.
_Business WOKENESS the new curse of humanity
_Business So advertising industry should stop advertising Japanese's, Germany's, USA's fossil cars that are currently occupying 98% of SA road's🤔🤔
_Business Really? We have so little to be concerned about that we will allow this to occupy our minds?
_Business Pathetic..we are not a wealthy country. Try telling a taxi driver to give up his petrol skedonk when it's the only means of income.
_Business No one will listen to them,mark my words,they is no impact there
_Business Have they and their children given up their cars yet? What about all air travel and their luxury yachts in the Bahamas?
_Business All antiwhite scientific arguments fall apart if you disconnect them from the victimization of White people and the destruction of Western Civilization. White men promptly proceed to apply the scientific method, unencumbered with white guilt.