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Greenpeace: Cleaner oceans. Renewable fuels. Greener consoles?
McSnow | 6:23 PM on 12.13.2007 9 comments


So not only does gaming make kids fat, train killers and destroy society as a whole but now it also pollutes our environment.

Greenpeace have initiated a scheme that is calling out to all o-zone loving, tree hugging gamers to write to their favourite platform holders to politely ask them to start making eco-friendly consoles.

"In gamespace, everybody wants to save the world. But back here on planet Earth, your favourite games console contains deadly agents of real destruction: toxic chemicals that shouldn't be there and may be contributing to mountains of e-waste when thrown away. Clash of the Consoles is the website where you can check out how your favourite game heroes stand up against their rivals, and how you can help battle the boss monsters to green their game."

There is even an informative video!

It is a noble idea and I respect Greenpeace for at least attempting to do something, but I just cannot see them being successful with this campaign. I'm sure their funds could be better spent elsewhere.



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wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 19:05
wardrox
Shit, they're not trying to make the world a nicer place again? Fucking hippys.
atheistium's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 20:07
atheistium
ahha i like your banner now :D
awesome post ;P
Knivy's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 21:08
Knivy
Was that a RRoD on the 360 shown in the video?
boatorious's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2007 08:32
boatorious
Why is it when religious folk, moms, or politicians attack video games there is uproar, but when hippies attack video games everyone's like "aww, how cute."

Step one is rating console eco-friendliness. Step two is throwing blood on you when you leave best buy with a Wii. You have been warned.
ceark's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2007 20:31
ceark
? Sony isn't even close to being ass bad as microsoft or nintendo on that chart. what the heck were they being fussed at about?
Twiggy's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2007 20:34
Twiggy
o-zone loving? do environmentalists now rock out to the sweet sounds of Romanian pop? numa numa numa yay!
ceark's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2007 20:35
ceark
oh nevermind. energy usage. Still, a couple million ps3's isn't comporable to the fact that just about every pc in the world has probably a minimum power supply of 300 watts.
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