OPINION: Global Warming Game Targets kids

If you spend enough of your income on "stuff that's better for the environment" or "ethical investments," your pig becomes incredibly small and dainty again. I could drive a "fuel-guzzling" Hummer, live in an enormous mansion with no other people, eat meat for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and earn huge sums of money, but as long as I invested half of all my money in "ethical investments" it didn't matter. In fact, as I gave away more and more of my money to environmental groups, my pig became the size of a mouse and floated away. The program gleefully informed me that "at this rate, you could live forever!"

To "win" this game, and "live forever," you have to give big chunks of money to environmental groups. (Even the very poor who--somehow--still maintain a green lifestyle use up their allotted carbon by age 31.) Do Australians know that a publicly funded corporation is being used as a fundraising tool for environmental groups?

One final question: What are we to think about the promise of the website that, if you give enough money to the greenies, you will have eternal life? And they say that radical environmentalism is not a religion?