Subject Matter in South Park - Environmentalism and Global Warming

Environmentalism and Global Warming

  • "Rainforest Shmainforest" parodies environmental activism and portrays celebrity environmental activism as motivated by a desire to feel better about themselves.
  • "Spontaneous Combustion" uses global warming as a source of trouble for the townspeople, caused by their own flatuence.
  • "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" and "ManBearPig" making fun of overreactions and doomsday predictions concerning global warming. ManBearPig is also more specifically a mockery of Al Gore.
  • "Smug Alert!": Hybrid automobiles, while praised, nonetheless have owners who are touted as a source of "smug" (caused by the incredible selfish and self-centered behavior of their owners); San Francisco is considered as the "smug" capital, destroyed in a "smugstorm" à la The Perfect Storm.
  • In "Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow" Earth Day people come to South Park. The Earth Day people utilize a jedi mind trick to make the townspeople not only believe that all they say is correct, while that which conservatives say is slander, but to also build for them a massive Earth Day celebration. When Clyde says "My dad is a geologist and he says there actually isn't any concrete evidence of global warming", they answer "That's not true, global warming is going to kill us all. The Republicans are responsible".

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