News and Politics | October 26, 2011 | 8 comments

Get off my Planet: Happy Birthday 7 Billion

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To mark the world’s population reaching 7 billion on Halloween 2011, WORLDbytes has launched this hilarious parody of modern day Malthusian thinking. The programme features talented Blood Brothers star and ex-RSC actor James Hirst as the central character, Bill. For Bill the news of 7 billion is a Halloween nightmare. His solutions include: getting rid of ‘thickies’, euthanasia, gelding and paying African women not to have children- a carbon offsetting scheme first proposed by the Optimum Population Trust, now rebranded as Population Matters. Bill is no Daily Mail reader, he gets his over-consumption paranoia from the Guardian and he’s going for the cull. This parody reflects WORLDbytes’ concern to challenge the profoundly anti-human roots of over population ideas.
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8 comments // Get off my Planet: Happy Birthday 7 Billion // Video

  • doddy
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      doddy  

    • Happy birthday 7,000,000,000 of us!
      This film is hilarious but frightening at the same time... It's great how James Hirst goes off on one about the ever increasing population, he's very funny. But, the scary thing is that people actually think like this for real!
      With such a small percentage of this planets land actually inhabited by humans, there is more than enough room for everyone...and more.
      Roll on the next billion I say!

    • 6 months ago
  • DErrico
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      DErrico  

    • An ironic, simply and real “Theatre piece”. Dramatic and humouristic in the same time.
      We could put ourselves in the participant observer’s shoes, listening with a cup of tea in our hand, the weird clutter which come outside. Water, electricity, Greenbelt’s hassle and even the polar bear extinction, immigrants or native Africans will be called upon to answer to these problems...
      A smile on my face..and gooesbumps.

    • 7 months ago
  • rumplestiltskin
  • Blem
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      Blem  

    • Hahahahahaha! This is BRILLIANT! I’m still laughing my head off. Captures brilliantly all the outrageous Malthusian prejudices about overpopulation. Cull the thickies!!!!

    • 7 months ago
  • ln64
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      ln64  

    • So funny! It makes me realise how the overpopulation argument is nonsense. I particularly liked the discussion about polar bears: “it should be 7 billion of them not 7 billion of us”. I think that sums up all the absurdity of some statements.

    • 7 months ago
  • skumar2011
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      skumar2011  

    • Never realized how truly anti-human the over population argument really was until I saw this. There are a lot of ideas, much less politically correct, expressed in between the lines of the OPT argument than their PR execs lead us to believe.

    • 7 months ago
  • CeriD
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      CeriD  

    • As its the birthday of the seven billionth today on Halloween just to say Happy Birthday and this spoof brings all the crazy prejudices together nicely - makes me cry laughing- great for WORLDbytes to get a professional actor on board too

    • 7 months ago
  • vivien
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      vivien  

    • Bill is a mean ole bugger who wants all the useless people in the useless countries to be culled! This short makes you grin and giggle and, I was going to say, it's so over the top but sadly you just have to go on to Population Matters, of which Richard Attenborough is the patron, and see how very close to the mark this parody is. Take a look...

    • 7 months ago
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