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Take Responsibility
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The premise
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A coworker wraps up a cheerful presentation on how each employee can shrink their environmental footprint, holding up a smiling-planet tote bag as the prize for an office contest. Karen raises a few thoughts that swell into a furious, music-backed tirade: one person's weekly steak means nothing next to the company's own rainforest destruction, almost every living thing would cheer if humanity vanished, and the cute tote is just insidious marketing bound for a landfill. Unfazed, the presenter mentions the bag is signed by Mark Ruffalo, and Karen instantly melts, vows to win it and announces she will frame it and wear it. The presenter sends the room off by calling Karen fiery.
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You know what, if we all disappeared today, you know who would stand up and applaud? Literally every single organism on the planet
It's signed by Mark Ruffalo.
He is so adorable. And he's just little so, you know, smaller global footprint.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The sketch aired in the series finale, "No One Steals the Kale," whose episode guide also lists "Future Art," "Fashion over 40" and a cautionary tale about takeout containers.
Script
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- 00:00
Presenter
So in short, there are so, so many ways that you can reduce your global footprint. And if we all do our part, together we can make a change. And there is this cool tote in it for whoever wins the office contest.
- 00:18
Karen
Hey, yeah, I just had some thoughts. Doesn't your initiative set up a giant false equivalency? Framing our planet's degradation as a matter of individual responsibility completely ignores the role that corporate pollution plays in the death spiral we're currently locked in you know what i'm saying i mean me having a steak once a week there's no way that offsets the fact that our company destroys acres of rainforest in the third world every day just to cultivate palm oil and the resulting pollutants comprises like 11 of our global carbon emission did you know that i bet you didn't you know what if we all disappeared today you know who would stand up and applaud literally every single organism on the planet except for maybe like our gut biome and a couple of domestic cats but otherwise I think that we need to recognize that your cute little tote with the little globe that's smiling on it yeah this is also by the way insidious marketing and it's going to end up in a landfill it does nothing to remove the curses that our grandchildren are going to place on our heads for allowing this apocalypse to happen
- 01:18
Presenter
it's signed by Mark Ruffalo
- 01:26
Karen
oh my god oh my god Mark Ruffalo did you meet him
- 01:30
Presenter
I did he is so adorable and he's just little so So, you know, smaller global footprint.
- 01:35
Karen ?
Just crazy, I'm totally gonna win that.
- 01:37
Presenter
Oh, you go, Karen.
- 01:38
Karen
Yeah, I'm gonna frame it and I'm gonna wear it. So fuck all y'all.
- 01:40
Presenter ?
Okay, okay, that's some language.
- 01:43
Karen ?
Remember these words.
- 01:45
Presenter
That was Karen, everybody. She's fiery.
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