That was Coca Cola’s 2005 holiday season ad campaign slogan. When the Coke-chugging polar bears showed up in 1993, I thought they were a little creepy. Still do. But evidently, they’re one of the most popular symbols in Coke’s 120-year history.
It’s a good thing they have Coke because the rest of their food supply is disappearing thanks to global warming. They’re about to be put on the endangered species list too. That is, if the Bush administration will do it. It means acknowledging that global warming is real. They might not go that far!
This is just to let you know I’m giving gift memberships to Conservation International to friends and family for Christmas (I mentioned it a few weeks ago). Click the pic below to make a donation!
If you’re at a loss for what to get people for Christmas, GIVE a gift in their name to an environmental organization so the polar bears will LIVE because we all LOVE polar bears. That way you can have a COKE and a smile and a clear conscience.
I was looking at the rim of my coke can and saw, “Give Live Love TM”. Talk about the corporatization of the world. Clear consicience? Not with Coke’s continued reputation of working in concert authoratarian regimes that kill union organizers. “Take Kill Hate” might be more accurate.
You’re right, they’re just another unscrupulous corporate behemoth. Plus it takes something like 9 liters of water to make a liter of Coke. But if can you separate the sentiment from the source (and the TM symbol), the words still make a good mantra. Unfortunately, “Take Kill Hate” is what America chants these days.
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