A future Obama says ’sorry’ at Copenhagen Airport – Greenpeace posters depict remorseful world leaders in the year 2020
Photo: Greenpeace/Åslund
In a campaign to persuade – or scare – key players at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen to agree upon key legislation to stop climate change, a dramatic series of posters welcomes arrivals at Copenhagen Airport. The startling placards by environmental group Greenpeace represent a grim future where today’s leaders have failed to act on the environment. An aging, white-haired Barack Obama from the year 2020 bemoans:
“I’M SORRY. WE COULD HAVE STOPPED CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE… WE DIDN’T”.
Photo by Greenpeace (Image source: osocio.org)
President Obama’s headline is duplicated by other heads of state on similar posters in Copenhagen Airport – all of them looking old and regretful. Leaders depicted in the posters include U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, among others.
View the all of the ‘COPENHAGEN 2009 ACT NOW – CHANGE THE FUTURE’ campaign posters on the Greenpeace Weblog.
By Graham Land
Additional resources:
Greenpeace – Barack to the future? Obama confuses key climate dates
More on the posters from treehugger
COP15 – United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
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a lot of people are complaining about the visual quality of the Greenpeace’s ads, but the fact that they are getting so much feedback is an indication that these ads are succeeding at least on some level