A Bear Hug? Nissan Ad Raises Eyebrows - NYTimes.com

The advertising blog Copyranter was even less charitable, calling the spot “outrageously manipulative” and “hubristic,” and pointing out that the millions of non-electric cars that Nissan continues to produce each year were “helping to destroy the bear’s ice pack.”

Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic posted the commercial on his blog with the headline “Smug Alert.”
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In an interview with the New York Times in August, Jon Brancheau, vice president for Nissan marketing at Nissan North America, said the polar bear ad offered “a little twist, perhaps a wink” at more serious efforts to promote ecofriendly products by other companies.

Was Obama's Choice to Pass on Climate a "Blunder of Historic Proportions"? : TreeHugger

If the US fails to act to avert catastrophic climate change, future generations will perhaps scour history's actors and non-actors for the reason that extreme weather events have become commonplace around the globe and that once fertile and and occupied coastline has been submerged (among other phenomena, of course).