A place to share and discuss stories from The Onion, Clickhole, and other satire.
Great Satire Writing:
They need to hurry up and tow that windmill outside of the environment.
That's it. From now on no more making turbines out of cardboard.
But where would they tow that windmill to, if it's not in the environment?
It"s not in the environment, it's beyond the environment
But there's got to be something out there!?
There's nothing out there! Just sea, and fish. And the part of the ~~ship~~ windmill where the front fell off. And a fire.
Can't they just spin it backwards to get the wind back in the wind turbine?
That will just leak wind upwards instead of downwards.
Imagine an alternate world where this was real. Where using too much solar power caused the earth to cool, and wind spills were a real issue that everybody feared, but oil was a truly renewable resource given to us by mother Earth herself.
People would tout the virtues of solar panels, saying that there's no evidence they actually make the Earth colder, secretly scheming for their free power. More and more wind turbines would be built, slowly reducing the winds of the Earth, except for periodic wind spills flattening Farmers Fields.
Hydroelectric dams would be built, but the level of the world's oceans would slowly drop, causing cities on the coast to no longer be on the coast after a couple centuries.
Honestly, I would absolutely read this story/watch this movie.
Something similar actually happened with the crude oil industry.
Crude oil was discovered in 1859 and started being used in the form of kerosene for lamps. It put the whale oil industry out business. At the time it was considered this great new thing since whales were being hunted to near extinction and whale hunts were becoming increasingly expensive to do. Crude oil was that eras "environmentally friendly" alternative, though I dont think they thought about it that way. It was more convenience/availability than anything else.
Then crude oil became the environmental hazard with all the oil spills and many other problems it's causing/contributing to.
I guess my point is if you or anyone else wanted to write up your synopsis as a full story they could research how kerosene put the whale oil industry out of business, the marketing they used and the social/economic impacts it had at the time.
Oil would be this amazing renewable resource. All we had to do was dump our waste in the mariana trench and within a few years, it would spring up everywhere as oil.
Here's just one example, the government reversed the video of this tornado which clearly spilled out of a collapsing wind machine. Joking, but I would wager someone believes that.
Ok that's a good one.