Coca Cola (UK) has sold its soul to Big Environment, specifically WWF. According to a friend in London, the ads are fairly frequent and always state
The Arctic is being affected by climate change and sea ice is vanishing at a rate of around 11 per cent each decade
The company is fully into the great polar bear scare. It’s ironic that Coca Cola is selling a product that releases vast amounts of CO2 if used as directed.
Well let’s help Coca Cola in its objective by not buying its products which are a great way of sequestering CO2.
Pepsico is far left shiller too.
Dr. Pepper is our only hope.
Infidel Tiger
4 Feb 13 at 6:18 pm
Yes those poor vanishing polar bears…
Gab
4 Feb 13 at 6:23 pm
The cognitive dissonance involved in liking soft drink and believing in the AGW scam is NO PROBLEM for the average Green teenager — until and unless you suggest that they stop drinking Coke.
Fortunately both of mine think it’s crap, so I don’t have to cut off their supply. Not sure about a boycott, I think revolution might follow.
Cato the Elder
4 Feb 13 at 6:28 pm
Really?
I’m sure beer produced in Asia won’t play to these Surry Hills wankfests.
Tiger may be our only hope.
.
4 Feb 13 at 6:36 pm
Bbbut the poley bears love it … well they did.
Rudiau
4 Feb 13 at 6:42 pm
Sorry. Can’t do it.
C.L.
4 Feb 13 at 6:52 pm
It would be a real sacrifice. Coke is the only soft drink I like and life just wouldn’t be the same without it.
How about a write-in campaign instead to let them know that they’re alienating a lot of customers. What odds that when its a choice between profit and “the environment” they’d go for business over the planet?
I’d bet a fair amount that the WWF association is nothing more than a publicity stunt to appear cool and trendy to their target audience – young people. Unfortunately, they’re waltzing with the devil.
Iren
4 Feb 13 at 6:54 pm
Yea dunno about a boycott. The problem is that you like certain products but not the politics of the company, so you hope that a personal boycott may make them change their behaviour.
More often than not though, it only hurts the boycotter. I boycotted Cadbury’s chocolate for a while because it had kowtowed to the Muslim lobby and paid for Halal certification.
This lasted for a while but I noticed that everyone else was still buying it as much as ever. Then I notice Vegemite also had the Halal sticker and there was no way I was going to give that up, so I weakened and bought a block of Cadbury’s chocolate.
It will take a few million (billion) more people than readers of the Cat boycotting Coca Cola, to make it change its stupid behaviour.
jupes
4 Feb 13 at 6:55 pm
I dislike companies that jump on the bandwaggon of some political issue.
I didn’t even look at a Mercedes for my new car after the Alan Jones ‘die of shame’ advertising withdrawal fiasco. I was at the pointy end of purchase when it all blew up and others would have been too. Glad I got a cute little Audi anyway.
I’ve calmed down on that fiasco now, as people do, and I am buying once more at Woolworths ‘cos I like their Select brown rice crackers in preference to anything else in that line.
Coke should become more aware that less and less will poley bears fly.
I only drink it with rum in it anyway which at least gives the bears lift-off.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
4 Feb 13 at 6:56 pm
Easy peasy, don’t drink any of the sugar bombs in bottules. Hydrogen dioxide is my tipple.
Louis Hissink
4 Feb 13 at 6:58 pm
Drink water! Save the planet?
stackja
4 Feb 13 at 7:00 pm
Never drink the bloody awful crap anyway.
Here’s a list of the products they sell in this country:
Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero, Fanta, Sprite, Sprite Zero, Lift, Mother, Kirks-brand varieties, Mount Franklin water, Powerade, Pump water, Nestea, SPC and Ardmona packaged fruit and vegetables.
They also distribute premium beers including Peroni, Pilsener Urquell and Miller.
I am not giving up Peroni.
Rabz
4 Feb 13 at 7:08 pm
Ah but Louis Hissenk. Didn’t you know that Di-hydroxy Monoxide is a major pollutant in all our rivers and streams. We really need to band together and do something about it. A lot of greenies at least thought so!
Stacka, Beer is far better. It makes lots of plant food in it’s production and is far better than water. Remember that fish have sex in that stuff!
Fred Furkenburger
4 Feb 13 at 7:08 pm
Apologies all – Miller is not a premium beer, it’s merely rebottled urine.
Rabz
4 Feb 13 at 7:09 pm
Stick with Schweppes. They’re owned by Asahi.
Gab
4 Feb 13 at 7:09 pm
How about a glass of Ben Ean?
Clancy of The Underpass
4 Feb 13 at 7:13 pm
Sorry Rabz but that’s putting a premium on it! Sadly though Peroni is not really that flash either. At least Pilsener Urquell is held up as a standard for the beer style pilsener around the world.
Fred Furkenburger
4 Feb 13 at 7:15 pm
Stick with Schweppes
They sell Passiona.
Cold-Hands
4 Feb 13 at 7:17 pm
No it isn’t
Grey
4 Feb 13 at 7:22 pm
Or beter yet, just drink Asahi.
Carpe Jugulum
4 Feb 13 at 7:24 pm
Greenies are supposed to hate big business. Who’s selling out, Coke or the WWF?
Harold
4 Feb 13 at 7:26 pm
Done! rape’em.
Rabz:
These are beer? Who knew? I always thought they were horse urine in a bottle.
Mk50 of Brisbane
4 Feb 13 at 7:33 pm
Can it, Grey. You’re as dull as a rainy Sunday.
Oh come on
4 Feb 13 at 7:34 pm
Labor just wishes everyone would shut up. They now have their lovely Scam Tax – so just be quiet.
The ALP is soon to announce a wide ranging & ingenious method of purchasing their way back into the next government & if people will just shut up
the flood & fire effected people won’t start screaming about Labor not using the Scam Tax money for its intended purpose – like flood mitigation for example – or even fire fuel load reduction!
maurie
4 Feb 13 at 7:41 pm
I
I think you meant to write feral goat urine.
Carpe Jugulum
4 Feb 13 at 7:43 pm
Would that be a dihydroxy monoxide day? No, I think not.
Grey
4 Feb 13 at 7:44 pm
If you have a problem with polar bears may I suggest a Barrett .50 cal in the semi auto version is the best way to deal with them.
Eyrie
4 Feb 13 at 7:46 pm
And bring back Robocco.
lotocoti
4 Feb 13 at 7:51 pm
If it could only cook too. *sigh*
Carpe Jugulum
4 Feb 13 at 7:55 pm
Emotional blackmail is what it is. Beth-Din, Halal, PETA rely on emotional blackmail. May just have to send lots of emails in protest. It will be difficult to dump Coke-what will I have with Bourbon? Mind you, the stuff is not exactly an essential item. I regard it as black poison, so we boycotters will find ourselves better off without it.
High Treason
4 Feb 13 at 7:56 pm
They also distribute Jim Beam bourbon.
Steve at the Pub
4 Feb 13 at 7:56 pm
Must be summartaahm, fishin is excellent.
Louis Hissink
4 Feb 13 at 8:05 pm
Coca Cola (UK) has sold its soul to Big Environment
Coca Cola doesn’t have a soul it’s a firm not a living being. It hasn’t sold it’s soul it’s just launched a marketing campaign where it gets to promote goodwill and link it in with a ninety year old mascot type trademark.
Big Environment?
This post was really not worth writing.
Maybe you coulda spruiked Pepsi but they’re on the wrong side of Israel/Palestine brouhaha. So hard being ideologically correct innit?
Adrien
4 Feb 13 at 8:11 pm
Louis, yes, they’re certainly jumping onto the hooks.
kae
4 Feb 13 at 8:11 pm
Listen Sam J
You are being a bit narrow minded about Coca Cola supporting climate change…
Dont you get it?
Coca Cola dont give a flying fuck about your politics or beliefs and they just want to sell as much of their drinks as they can. If some people people believe in global warming and some dont Coca Cola doesnt give a rats.
It wants all of you to keep buying its products so its also targetting the people who are concerned (you may not be one of them so tough).
God there are some damn silly people here calling for a boycott of CC.
How many companies are now advertising on the green sustainable thing…?? too many to count.
Take that as a warning some people are onviously concerned. The market is way ahead of you boyo and is leading the way n’est ce pas?.
Aliice
4 Feb 13 at 8:23 pm
Another live one.
kae
4 Feb 13 at 8:30 pm
So typical of righties – if it moves can we shoot it. If we can’t start moaning about greenie leftard swill.
Polar bear, they say your race is run.
Can we undo the damage that’s been done?
And will anyone care when there’s no polar bear,
Polar bear, tell us what went wrong?
I see, being so ignorant so as to not know what a hydroxy group is, is an example of the art of trolling. Clearly I am out of my depth amidst such brilliance.
Grey
4 Feb 13 at 8:30 pm
Coke? You’ll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
boy on a bike
4 Feb 13 at 8:31 pm
Grey – you are not making any sense.
Aliice
4 Feb 13 at 8:41 pm
“These are beer? Who knew? I always thought they were horse urine in a bottle.”
Pilsner Urquell? Wash your mouth out with horse urine!
The Beer Whisperer
4 Feb 13 at 8:42 pm
“Grey – you are not making any sense.”
Why start now?
The Beer Whisperer
4 Feb 13 at 8:46 pm
That’s what I call a “must have”!
Rabz
4 Feb 13 at 8:51 pm
The funny this is that Coke, like all soft drink companies, don’t use the CO2 that is a by-product of industry, as it is, not surprisingly, not of food grade standard. Instead, they produce CO2 especially for use in soft drinks, and most beers.
As for most mass-produced
swillbeer, rather than add malt or sugar for bottle-fermenting, they carbonate the beer with CO2. Fortunately anthropogenic CO2′s impact on globull warming is negligible.The Beer Whisperer
4 Feb 13 at 8:53 pm
Beats the crap out of being eaten by it.
boy on a bike
4 Feb 13 at 8:53 pm
Don’t confuse Coca Cola with Coca Cola Amatil, two very different companies.
Old Fridgie
4 Feb 13 at 9:02 pm
Pokari Sweat.
Pickles
4 Feb 13 at 9:03 pm
People are more loyal to drug dealers than anything else that is why we have a virtual duopoly around the world for cola or caffeinated water with sugar and a little CO2.
kelly liddle
4 Feb 13 at 9:05 pm
Here are Coca Cola’s brands – most of the drinks reappear.
Rabz
4 Feb 13 at 9:06 pm
From the Coca Cola website – all brands, Australia:
Bonaqua/BonaQa
caffeine free Coke light/Diet Coke
cherry Coke
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Zero
Crusta
Diet Coke/Coca-Cola light
diet Lift
diet Vanilla Coke
Fanta
glacéau vitaminwater
Goulburn Valley
Goulburn Valley Dairy
Hi-C
Lift
Mother
NESTEA *
Neverfail
Peats Ridge
POWERADE
POWERADE LIGHT
Pump
Pumped
Relentless
Sprite
Sprite Zero/diet Sprite/Sprite light
Vanilla Coke
Rabz
4 Feb 13 at 9:09 pm
Bloody hell – there is not a single product on that list I ever buy.
Rabz
4 Feb 13 at 9:10 pm
It doesn’t matter can just use another reason then. CC Amatil employs David Gonski who has thought of new and inventive ways to spend our taxes so boycott them for this then.
kelly liddle
4 Feb 13 at 9:18 pm
Bring back Lemon Coke.
Clancy of The Underpass
4 Feb 13 at 9:23 pm
I’ll buy Peroni for Miss November, if nothing else.
http://www.zeusbox.com/wallpapers/peroni_november_calendar_1920_x_1200_widescreen-1920×1200.jpg
duncanm
4 Feb 13 at 9:28 pm
Wish they’d make a sugar-free Cherry Coke.
Gab
4 Feb 13 at 9:28 pm
I dont any of those either Rabz but my other half cant go a week witout drinking a carton of coke a week.
Given my father used to clean his car engine with it I do wonder whats its doing to my hubby but there is just no convincing him now (there never was any convincing him anyway).
Aliice
4 Feb 13 at 9:30 pm
Yes Grey, yes you are.
Carpe Jugulum
4 Feb 13 at 9:30 pm
Coke has sold out to Big Environment but of more concern to me is its push to impose Systems Thinking on everyone. That we are all interdependent. That people that think of themselves as individuals are selfish. That we must put the Common Good as told to us ahead of what the facts around us tell us actually matters.
When I wrote this post http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/second-order-change-why-reform-is-a-misnomer-for-the-real-common-core/ on what Otto Scharmer and Peter Senge were pushing on business executives and teachers and administrators all over the world, it was partly based on a 2005 book they wrote called Presencing. It talks a lot about Coke’s efforts globally and makes them sound like pliable fools accepting every bit of propaganda thrown their way. But they have power in these countries because of the amount of water it takes for a bottling plant. They can change the development priorities of an entire region and that’s apparently exactly what GreenPeace and WWF and Senge and Scharmer push them to do.
About a week ago I wrote about something called the International Human Dimensions Programme and its work with Paul Ehrlich’s Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior.MAHB. Supposedly to transform human behavior globally. More than a little hubris there. The IHDP documents lay out how to use education to get there and they cite Senge and Scharmer as among those futurists actively engaged in transformation towards a desired global vision. All tied in with the UN as always.
Coke then is among a large number of global corporations using their economic power to shift all of us towards a vision we have never even heard of. The laws of unintended consequences mean we will not get where we are being propelled to but these naive or worse clowns are altering the future. In quite pernicious, collectivist ways.
Robin
4 Feb 13 at 9:30 pm
I stopped buying all Coca Cola products since the company endorsed the silly claims that polar bears are endangered; but I tend to boycott any product or chain whose advertisements annoy me.
Deadman
4 Feb 13 at 10:00 pm
Sounds nutritious!
stackja
4 Feb 13 at 10:01 pm
If Greenies REALLY, REALLY, want to do their bit to help Earth Mother Gaia by stopping all that deadly killer gas, evil carbon dioxide, I would suggest that just like the famous “Suicide Squad” of the “Peoples Front Of Judea”, they gather themselves in some public place and on the count of 3, all pull a tight-fitting plastic bag down over their heads.
About 5 minutes should do it.
Then the rest of us can go about our lives as normal.
Ho Hum!
Up The Workers!
4 Feb 13 at 10:23 pm
Used to have Coke years ago but shifted to ice cold water now. In fact I have no soft drinks or fruit juices at all. For flavouring a dash of scotch or bourbon gives the water a lift.
Cheers me that I’ve not been supporting this greenie company, might grab a glass of water to celebrate…
Chris M
4 Feb 13 at 10:33 pm
I think this is possibly the worst poem I have ever read.
And I have read some humdingers in my time.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
4 Feb 13 at 10:53 pm
A slightly different polar bear song,
“Climate Change Is Responsible for All the Things That Have Ever Gone Wrong”:
Polar bears numbers may be on the rise,
we know what to blame whenever one dies.
See rivers inundate each sun-baked plain
for global warming brings more and less rain;
farms will be barren or covered with mud
as all crops suffer from a drought or flood;
more dearth, devastation, much more death—
we poison the world with every breath.
Climate change is responsible for
all the things that have ever gone wrong. …
You’ll hear the eloquent wind in the trees:
“our weather will spread more nasty disease.”
Across the mountains see a want of snow;
and early this morning I stubbed my toe.
Climate change is responsible for
all the things that have ever gone wrong. …
Deadman
4 Feb 13 at 11:33 pm
Since no damage whatsoever has been done, yes we can simply do nothing thereby reversing the nothing done.
Sooner the bloody oversized garbage rats die out, the sooner people’s bins will still be in one piece at week’s end.
They contribute nothing to my welfare so are a waste of precious oxygen, just like greenies
WhaleHunt Fun
4 Feb 13 at 11:41 pm
No, its AbbotAbbotAbbot that causes all the bad stuff.
WhaleHunt Fun
4 Feb 13 at 11:43 pm
Oops; forgot to add that an alternative chorus is:
Tony Abbott’s responsible for
all the things that have ever gone wrong.
Deadman
4 Feb 13 at 11:46 pm
I blame the MAD MONK Mr Tonee Ryabbit and his relentless, wrecking negativity for the current fake crisis.
The ALP and Greens have become a meme unto themselves.
.
4 Feb 13 at 11:51 pm
Grey, your out of your depth in a glass of water
johninoxley
5 Feb 13 at 7:59 am
Lizzie B. you must have read too much Vogon poetry!
John A
5 Feb 13 at 8:10 am
This is the essence to the problem with Coca Cola’s (and Pepsi’s) business model.
They’ve tried diversifying to other drinks, but the move by consumers to drink more water is hurting the company.
TCCC had to buy favour by associating the brand with bleeding heart causes to overcome the problems of a changing market.
Token
5 Feb 13 at 8:35 am
It is a cross species variant of a song by Galapagos Duck from their album Endangered Species – quite possibly somewhat mangled by my memory.
Whatever gratitude they might have felt for the plug will be certainly overwhelmed by the contumely shown towards them by the as yet unpublished Lizzie – but who is universally agreed to be a rare literary talent.
Meanwhile for extremely bad polar bear poetry, I offer this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKDakrjmwJc
Grey
5 Feb 13 at 8:38 am
I think that the Australian Coca Cola Amatil is the direct, wholly owned, descendant of W.D. and H.O. Wills, which became, proudly, British Tobacco. I still remember those heady (and smelly) days in the mid 50s, at Sydney Boys’ High, in Moore Park Sydney, where the wind brought Wills’ tobacco odour, ACI glass works dust, Resch’s beer cooking flavours and Mauri Bros and Thomson vinegar air and for good measure, after the Easter Show, centre of Anzac Pde, horse stable mucking outs as garden fertilizer. The 6d bottle of Pepsi, tasted great each morning before school.
Michael
5 Feb 13 at 12:27 pm
No problem, never touch the stuff, since seeing a painter using it as a paint stripper.
Merilyn
5 Feb 13 at 3:38 pm
You chemists ought to know that it’s Hydrogen hydroxide you are maligning/praising gossiping about not dihydrogen monoxide.
Ken
10 Feb 13 at 8:35 pm