Hard questions for Greenpeace
I was accosted by a Greenpeace activist on Vermont Ave. in Los Feliz today and asked him to face some inconvenient truths."Did you know that there are only 950 polar bears left?" he asked. "We are hoping to get them on the waiting list for the endangered species list."
Being on the endangered species list allows animals certain privileges, including discounts on PepsiCo products, such as Pizza Hut.
The number that gets an animal on the endangered species list is different per animal.
"If you had, say, 1,000 ants left," he said, "that would be really endangered. But 950 polar bears is getting there."
I said I didn't know polar bears were so rare, what with their numerous endorsement appearances.
"You sure you don't have some ambitious canvassers going up to the ice shelf to knock a couple of them off, you know, to get them on the list?" I probed. "To, you know, sacrifice a few for the good of the whole?"
"You're being flippant," he said. "But we will actually send people up to spray a non-toxic green stripe on baby harp seals so that no one wants to take their coats. Do you think anyone would buy an ermine coat with a green stripe on it?"
"Have you done any studies about how attractive seals with defacing paint on their coats are to each other?" I asked. "What are the chances of reproduction if a seal looks like ass? I wouldn't get it on with a striper."
"I think they use pheromones and musk in mating," he said.
That's interesting. In Glendale they use Drakkar Noir (and lots of it).
See also: Greenpeace
Labels: activism, glendale, interview, los angeles
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by Marty Barrett at Wednesday, August 15, 2007
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