Why we can’t have rational political discussions
When Flygbussarna, a Swedish airport bus company, wanted to drive home the environmental superiority of riding buses to the airport, it commissioned a 300-tonne ad.The Acne Advertising group assembled 50 junked cars into one bus, which it placed along the road to Sweden's largest airport. The resulting sensation raised environmental consciousness even as it slowed airport-bound traffic to a crawl.
. Flygbussarna added a live video cam of the "bus," counted the cars passing the site, and calculated the amount of carbon that would have been saved had motorists taken the bus instead of their cars. It's an inspired campaign, but it also demonstrates why can't have rational discussions during Nova Scotia election campaigns. If a pol here dares even to hint at an inconvenient truth, reporters and rival politicians pile on like pirannas.