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COOLNESS: The Age is melting
Someone at The Age has launched an offshoot of their site where their dwindling number of readers can get hot and sweaty about climate change.
Readers passing through Southern Cross station on Spencer Street Melbourne (within spitting distance of The Age’s ‘Spencer Street Soviet’ building and the new lavish shareholder-money-consuming glass facility just opposite the station) report that The Age installed a big piece of probably Chinese made plastic to depict that The Age’s domain name was icy and melting.
Quite appropriate in many ways.
Some would say that the Age’s business model is built on environmental vandalism of the carbon “polluting” kind. Classifieds ads in particular are a huge waste of paper that could easily be read in an online environment. If The Age could lead by example it would have a lot more credibility in lecturing everyone else on climate change.
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How much Greenhouse Gas does the Age produce?
Between maintaining airconditioned offices, a printing plant, delivery trucks and the like, the CO2 must be pumping out by the bucket load.
If the Age shutdown, that would be their greatest gift to the world climate.
Looks like plastic, but is actually Lawrence Money melted down.
The age’s carbon footprint is dwindling by the week. The new building is very eco-friendly, but even more importantly, as the paper shrinks in pages, and they sell ever few copies, every hour will soon be earth hour.
Saw it. bet the Age wasn’t too concerned about wasting of water when it melts. What a wank.
Not as much as Vexnews!!
Do The Age not subscribe to the old saying “people who live in Glass Houses should not throw stones” (and undress in the dark!)
Hypocracy epitomised!
I like the Carbon(e) footprint.
The Age loved that obama received a nobel prize. But these crazed lefty nobel scumbags in 1949 awarded a nobel in medicine to Antonio Moniz “for his discovery of the therapeutic value of lobotomy in certain psychoses”
Yep, a nobel prize for inventing lobotomy. Now thats fu*ked up.
.. but we do so well.
We pump out more carbon than you could imagine to our Fitzroy latte sippers to tell them how bad the Herald Sun readers are at destroying our environment.
Excuse me. I need to put more washing through my dryer now.
Move more than a 5km radius from the city centres of Melbourne and Sydney and the crazed religious zeal of “global warming” has a hollow ring to it.
Carbon footprint is a plaything of the inner urban elite left.
Just because they didnt give you a job andrew. Let it go, your such a child.
The Age has done plenty of jobs on me actually.
But as for offers of employment, we’d rather not take up your kind suggestion unless we could replace all of Comrade Crazy Deveny, Cat lover Carolyn Webb, the PLO’s own Andra Jackson, phoney Leonie Wood, Iron Mike Bachelard, Melly Fife, Gee Rundle and now pastured columnist Dirty Larry Money.
We break more news than all of them combined and produce more copy in a day than Webb does every three years.
This would generate savings of at least $1 million per year, which could diverted into paying down some of the JB Fairfax family debt.
Haven’t the Age been banging on about doing business with Sudan? ANZ Bank and the banknote boys? So how much gum arabica from Sudan (the main source) goes into printing their rag? It has an exemption from sanctions but is it ethical to buy from them at all? That seemed to be their point when they were attacking. Can they defend it.Oops!
>> Carbon footprint is a plaything of the inner urban elite left.
Oh and the scientists, don’t forget them. Crazy greenie scummie leftie scientisties!
ACTUALLY… the aliphatic water clear polyurethane resin used in this piece was manufactured raw in Botany, NSW and processed into the cast letters in Rozelle, NSW. The Chinese may want to emulate this design and fabrication style, but be sure that diehard Aussies designed and developed it specifically for The Age.
Ohh, but of course you would all rather have the herald sun. I picture kiddies book made for the eyes of the pathetic and weak, that paper numbs the brain, and actually doesn’t believe in climate change! What a joke. Herald Sun should be shut down, the world would be a better place for it!
Doing it again today – wank last time, wank now.
Although there was a security guard there this morning making sure it was safe. Nice.