[phaster]

Ever notice that successful social movements have their own icons or mascots to sell people on an idea and to take up some kinda action...

By that I mean disney has a mickey mouse as a mascot, apple of course has an iconic apple, terrorism as defined by george bush and infotainment windbags such as Rush Limbach on conservative media outlets like fox "news" use an image of bin laden to scare the shit out of american voters, Fuwa will serve as the Official Mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, carrying a message of friendship and peace -- and good wishes from China -- to children all over the world

http://en.beijing2008.cn/spirit/beijing ... 8254.shtml

the world wildlife fund has a panda

http://images.google.com/images?q=world ... rch+Images

and if ya go back in american history in the 1950's, ike and JFK invoked sputnik to push the american public into looking at NASA and science and engineering as a patriotic endeavors. Al Gore and his movie "an inconvient truth", got more people in the american public to start considering environmental.

So after re-listening to an econ talk pod cast on "Worst-case Scenarios"

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/1 ... wor_1.html

I figure one way to get the general public a bit more aware of peak oil is to personalize the issue. So what icon, person or mascot do you think could help sell the general public around the world that peak oil is a problem they should consider more important news, than say the lastest BS antics of some skank "celeberty" like britney spears or paris hilton.

[Ludi]

I suggest this "zombie dog" the late Sam, ugliest dog in the world while he lived:

[DomusAlbion]

The hungry wolf at the door. Staring at you, ready to devour you.

[Homesteader]

A big ugly camel. Ship of the desert and all that.

[phaster]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Homesteader', 'A') big ugly camel. Ship of the desert and all that.

[Aimrehtopyh]

[Revi]

Make my vote for the wolf at the door. The UK site has a great symbol, of a wolf in a drop of oil:

http://www.wolfatthedoor.org.uk/

Here's a cool youtube video of Wolf at the Door by Radiohead:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvBPCm25z4I

[mos6507]

[bodigami]

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actually the Apple logo is an icon not a mascot. Linux, Firefox, and Open Source in general have better mascots.

Well, I was thinking that the bell-shaped curve is quite iconic... specially if you make a similar one but of "peak other"; like peak population (which growth rate matches the oil curve shape). So, we must start with a bell.

...I was thinking of a bell-shaped smilie... and looking at the Finder.app icon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finder_(software) Which is a rectangle with 2 mixed happy faces, one up front and the other as seen by the side.



So... now imagine an ochre or dark yellowish (a bell usual color, or few oil seen under light) colored smile, divided in 2 like the Finder.app icon. BUT, that can clearly be seen as happy in the left side and sad in the right side.

[Mechman]

The wolf in a drop of Oil at "Wolf at the Door" UK really is a very visually striking mascot symbol with cultural reference but it already as been grabbed. In the story of the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" the false alarms lulled everyone to inattention but in the end the wolf showed up and fed. So much like the problem with peak oil, people have been lulled into inattention by false alarms and wishful thinking and now the big bad peak oil wolf is going to bite most or all of us in the butt. CYA with peak oil preps and the wolf's bite will not hurt as much.

For doomer porn, how about a great white shark with mouth open to bite in a drop of oil? Frighten all the kiddies!

Or a good picture of Mother Nature giving the whole earth in a dirty oil diaper a big slap?

We do have our very own HawkMan mascot promoted by Aaron for Peak Oil. Skriiieee!!



Mark

[phaster]

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[steam_cannon]

I don't know about mascots, but in thinking about it I found this...





It's a darned good comic.
Page 1: http://www.transmission-x.com/luz/2007/ ... llo-world/

About the doomer/artist "Claudia Davila"
http://www.franpages.blogspot.com/

[steam_cannon]

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[ohanian]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLMVNyYb1SE

[Aimrehtopyh]

The Petroleum Fairy needs no weapons. He just waves his Wand of Supply Chain Disruption and millions die.

I like zensuis idea about using the bell curve to describe a smile. Except Hubberts curve is without a doubt ALL FROWN.

Maybe someone with photoshop could morph the curve with something famously sad. Like...

[Revi]

I love the idea of the hubbert's curve with a big frown, or the scream guy. Why not have his hands up around the screaming head in the middle of hubbert's peak?

Stick the screamer in this pic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hubb ... d_2004.png

[Newfie]

DODO

Remember "Ice Age" the attack of the Dodo's?

Doom on you, doom on you, doom on...................aaaahhhhh

[joeltrout]

How about Cassandra ?

joeltrout

[Pops]

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BTW this post is time stamped and my IP logged so I'm gonna say that gives me copyright protection so be prepared to cut me a check on your T-Shirt sales.

[Ludi]

Awww, it's cute, Pops!