Imagine the turbine hall of this former power station filled with BP-branded sleeping figures, who will soon wake from their BP-sponsored coma to sound the climate alarm.

I’m trying to imagine it. I really am.

But every time, just when I’ve almost got it, I am overcome with feelings of complete and utter nausea at the self-satisfied hypocrisy of the participants……..

hahaha Pagar you miserable git!! come on down. it might be fun. You know, like, F-U-N?

“and allow us all a few minutes to dream of a future free from oil spills”

The only way that’s going to happen is if we stop using oil altogether. Something which, if you really want to achieve that, might be best attained by your going and getting an engineering dregree and working on possible replacements.

Rather than, you know, poncing about in an art museum?

@ Dave

At exactly 2.15PM, unpack your BP branded sheet, pillow, pyjamas, night cap, sleep mask, teddy bear, alarm clock, hot water bottle or any other sleep related props (see here for ideas and downloadable props) and start the sleep-in!

I don’t have a sleep mask- what is that? And what if I’m not tired?

How about I just come to the party?

Happy to help pedal the music system. That sounds F-U-N!!!!!

The Tate is a good place for a protest, really, as you know whatever you can up to can’t be as pretentious and self-indulgent as half the stuff on its walls.

@ 1 pagar

I know people can be santimonious about oil companies and the like while blithely using their products, so you do have a point there. But it’s hard for consumers to force firms like BP to take adequate environmental safety precautions – in fact, there’s probably no way for the average customer to know whether these steps have been taken until an oil rig fall down and go boom.

Judging by this article, the purpose of the flashmob is apparently not to demand that BP pay excessive penalties for its mistakes, but merely to prevent it from greenwashing its image. It’s just PR vs PR: seems pretty valid to me.

But the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill was almost an environmental non-event, given the local ecology, which contains oil-eating microbes and where oil is released naturally into the sea.

Now, oil spills in cold water oceans with no oil-eating microbes…is probably a different matter…

Are these replies going to be deleted now?
No doubt Pager would have mocked the International Brigades going off to Spain to fight the fascists too.

@ Damon

No doubt Pager would have mocked the International Brigades going off to Spain to fight the fascists too.

Comparing BP Flashmob with the International Brigade is more than a little ridiculous don’t you think?

Perhaps even insulting to their memory?

Anyway, I think you will find it is mainly fascists who wanted to censor free expression!!!!

Pager, NB the

Wink Wink.