“Worse than Tobacco”: Aussie Greens Push for Fossil Fuel Advertisement Ban"Australia’s largest coal producer, Glencore, launched its first national advertising campaign last month with sweeping footage of
glittering solar panels and an idyllic vista of twirling wind turbines.
At least one climate advocacy group argues such marketing
should be banned in Australia, in a move
similar to the outlawing of tobacco advertising three decades ago.
Comms Declare, a group made up of
300 marketing, public relations, advertising and media professionals, as well as
80 organisations that have committed to not supporting companies contributing to the growth of fossil fuel emissions in Australia, has launched a campaign of its own calling for a
tobacco-style blanket ban on advertising by coal, oil and gas companies in Australia..."
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