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Advertising Will Lead To The End Of The World

Advertising Will Lead To The End Of The World

By Piers Fawkes on July 17, 2007

Well that’s what Sut Jhally thinks. He says that as advertising is so short termist it fails to help consider the long term needs of the planet. As you know we’ve been complaining about Urban Spam for donkey’s years but we didn’t realize we were helping the planet too.

The video is opinionated and a little one-sided but, hey, it’s good fodder for debate.

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