Meet Obki the Alien: Sky TV’s Little Yellow Man Who Aims to Turn Your Children Green
The Wombles are making a comeback. But will they be a success? Not necessarily. According to a recent interview with the son of the original 1970s series’ creator, Elisabeth Beresford, although the Wombles themselves spent their entire lives recycling rubbish on Wimbledon Common, his mother “never set out to preach” to childhood viewers of the show, aiming to turn them all into mini-Wombles themselves. Instead, said her son, “For her, the Wombles were never ‘being’ green – they just were green. That’s how they lived their lives. Remember, Mum was 13 when the war started and that’s how she was brought up – to never waste a thing.”
In other words, the idea for the show came first, inspired by wartime ‘Make Do and Mend’ attitude, followed subsequently by the pro-recycling message, which flowed naturally from the original premise. If it had been the other way around, it would have just been crude propaganda: which is what the new series sounds like, to be honest. The neo-Wombles show was described in the same interview with Beresford’s son as follows: “Appearing in both live action and animated formats, the episodes will all have a sustainability message and explore solutions to environmental problems. They will also feature tips and tricks to reduce food waste and upcycle old clothes.”
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Drinks used to come in reusable bottles (milk, soda pop, beer) which is very Green. When the accountants got control of companies then we saw the rise of single use containers.
Recycling is a very poor substitute for re-use.
Correct
Recycling glass is negative for the environment, your melting down perfectly good bottles to make them into bottles again which uses as much energy as it did to make them in the first place and technically, all your saving is…sand!
As a footnote, here in Ireland, they have admitted that 90% of the ‘recycled ‘ plastic bottles from its re-turn scheme are sent abroad for ‘recycling ‘ in other words, to Indonesia and the like to be chucked in the sea!
They did for a lot of local dairy products a few decades ago. The local farmer used to deliver milk in glass bottles and collect the empties for reuse. More recently, I came across the brewing trade in Bamberg that did that as well, for bottled beer. Most of the 500 ml bottles were used many times for local delivery.
And you got a 5p deposit back for taking them back to the shop to be washed and reused, simple
My Dad worked in the family Dairy, before WWII, delivering milk to housewives on a bicycle, a pail in each hand – or so he told me. He would pour the milk from a pail into the housewife’s milk jug. So no waste what’s so ever. And his father used a handcart to transport the milk, I think, when the milk was in glass bottles.
Vying with the BBC for which channel can produce the most propaganda for the Government. What next I wonder? Astory focused around the adventures of an illegal migrant, who pretends he is stil a child so that he gets to play with all the little girls and boys?, Or perhaps a story where little Tommy who has the misfortune to be born white in Britain each week goes through various experiments to change the colour of his skin.
Perhaps the exciting caterpiller transition of little Jenny into Burt the boy with help along the way from various magical people, including their teacher, their Doctor, and their surgeon. Children can learn the special effects of having par!s of the body removed, and all the lovely coloured sweeties Jenny takes to make her what the lovely grown ups want her to be.
There! an entire childrens new show programme schedule for Sky, perhaps I ought to make an appointment to pitch to them, its sure to be a success
I somehow just knew Obki’s creators would look like that.
Remarkable how ‘well’ you can look on a climate-friendly diet of plant-based food.
Of course the eco hypocrites behind this Obki series couldn’t resist launching a range of merchandise to go with it. “Small step sustainable” apparently so likely it was yet more cheap stuff that will have ended up in recycling bins in theory. That’s alright then!
Sky U.K. is owned by Comcast which is controlled by a billionaire “philanthropist”
Where is OfCom?
Just get rid of the TV.