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Why James Bond Would Drink Motor Oil Before Drinking Coke

planetsave.com — The first time I saw the James Bond Coca-Cola ad, I didn’t think much about it. But now it turns my spit to bile. It’s disgustingly ironic that the owners of the James Bond series would advertise Coke with a film about (spoiler alert) a greenwashing corporation stealing water from the third world. Because that perfectly describes Coca-Cola Inc.

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  • maximilen, on 12/19/2008, -2/+8"No wonder, as a blogger at Food and Water Watch noticed, that Coca-Cola resembles not James Bond, but his enemy Dominic Greene. The villain of Quantum of Solace pitches environmentalists on an eco-park scheme called the Tiara project, while meanwhile he buys up or dams up all the water in Bolivia, eventually extorting an exclusive water rights contract from the dictator he put in charge. Just like Greene, Coca-Cola has aggravated the world’s water shortage, and just like Greene, Coca-Cola is reaping the financial rewards. And the company is so cocky that it advertises its sugar-water using a movie all about fighting a water-hoarding corporation. But no worries. You’ll drink it because Bond drinks it, right?"
  • Gonasadude, on 12/20/2008, -1/+6I dunno, Bond uses Smirnoff for his vodka martinis. Not exactly the highest quality...
  • drnkallsolution, on 12/20/2008, -1/+4sure i hate hippies a whole lot, but don't you like water?
  • mykool, on 12/20/2008, -1/+3My biggest concern about the CocaCola Co. is the fact that the bottled water they sell is more expensive than the soda they sell. Does this mean the water used to make the soda is inferior to the bottled water? If they used good clean water to make the soda shouldn't it be more expensive? Just makes ya think.
  • IvanB, on 12/20/2008, -1/+2Pepsi in my house.
  • merreborn, on 12/20/2008, -4/+5James bond will drink whatever his corporate masters want him to drink. Bond films aren't art. They have no street-cred to preserve. They're the worst kind of recycled Hollywood dreck designed to make money, and do nothing more.

    But of course, the article isn't actually about James Bond at all. It's just a bunch of hippie bitching about Coke using millions of gallons of water.
  • NickDouglas, on 12/20/2008, -1/+1I wrote the original article, and I hate hippies too. I also get annoyed by people who take headlines literally, but whatevs. I can't expect every reader to understand I'm making a point. Or to appreciate that some Bond movies are actually pretty good.
  • DanielShinall, on 12/20/2008, -1/+1Juic3boxx
  • replaysMike, on 12/20/2008, -2/+1Ouch, BURN.

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