Episode 36 • • 21:05 - 24:33
36: Yahoo+Microsoft=Britney Spears
Carbon Credits and VCR Plus Marketing Schemes
The concept of a "carbon footprint" is characterized as a marketing scheme designed to facilitate the trading of carbon credits. This is compared to the "VCR Plus" system of the 1990s, which used simplified codes to help users program video recorders. Both are viewed as artificial constructs created to generate licensing fees and manage consumer behavior.