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The “We” Ad Campaign for Climate Change: Get On the Couch

the pact in the course of climate extortion was founded by al gore in 2006 as a “single purpose organization committed to igniting public action to help solve the climate crisis”.

Last month the Alliance launched their “We” Campaign (as in “we can solve it”), a $300 million marketing effort (spent over three years) designed to push the public’s “sense of urgency” about the climate crisis toward a “tipping point” breaking through the current logjam of partisan posturing and “cultural stereotypes”. One wonders if $300 million is enough.

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To that end, the We Campaign started in earnest with two television ads promoting “Unlikely Alliances”.

To wit:

It’s all about the couch.

Couch Potato

The symbolism of the couch helps to foster the idea of broad unity in meeting a tough challenge – sitting down together to work through a common problem. The next step, according to Alliance Director of Communications Matt Howes, is an invitation for you and I to “sit on the couch” with two new ads scheduled for release within the next week. (I’d like to be on the couch at the beach.)

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The ads were developed by The Martin Agency (“so easy a caveman could do it”) with Public Relations handled by the Glover Park Group. The message is well-crafted and one that I agree with.

But, despite Al and Pat, Nancy and Newt, I wonder if there is an element of “preaching to the choir” here.

Gore is a lightening rod for conservative vitriol, and even though he remains largely out of the picture on the WeCanSolveIt website and the Alliance’s marketing efforts, right-wing bloggers have no problem sniffing him out, finding any reason to impugn his work and anyone associated with him (Newt’s sanity is now questioned). Before you know it, we’re right back where we started.

Obviously, these people aren’t ever going to get on board or manage to wrap their heads around climate change until it’s much too late – prescience isn’t their forte. So there will always be an element snarling at the cuff of positive change like a rapid dog. (I admit I find myself snarling back, admittedly distracting from the more positive message “We” attempts to promote.)

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The ads are aimed at the “middle-of-the-road” people that think global warming is a problem, but don’t quite feel the urgency of taking action post haste to avert the more dire consequences of climate change.

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Time will tell if this ambitious media project leads to a greater sense of urgency and pushes the public dialog past political polarization toward a substantive discussion on what to do about it (i.e. aggressive support of alternative energy, cap and trade vs. revenue neutral carbon tax, etc.)

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