Environmentalists decide to scare the children

The state-sponsored Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "Planet Slayer" site has an interesting way to inform children about their environmental impact. Children are invited to take a quiz and informs them "what age you should die at so you don’t use more than your fair share of Earth’s resources!"

Australian Senator Mitch Fifield asked the Herald-Sun, "Do you think it's appropriate that the ABC ... depict people who are average Australians as massive overweight ugly pigs, oozing slime from their mouths, and then to have these pigs blow up in a mass of blood and guts?"

Of course, as PlanetSlayer's "creative director" tells the New York Post, "you can't buy publicity like that."

Luckily for me, I only should have died at age 9.6, so I'm doing better than most. Take the quiz yourself.