Few have been spared the satire of Matt Groening’s long running animated sitcom. Last night, The Simpsons took on Apple, or uh, Mapple for a full 6 minutes of lampoonery — a pretty harsh ride at a two-joke per minute pace. It all starts when the Springfield mall gets its very own Mapple store…

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This is the official Walt Disney World commercial that will be playing near you very soon. 

Skyrocketing energy prices. The climate crisis. Unraveling financial markets. Wars that just happen to be in places with a lot of oil. These are all just different faces of exactly the same thing. As I’ve said in the past, we’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. And every bit of that has to change.

So the Alliance for Climate Protection has put together an ad that tells this simple story. And we’re going to put it on national cable TV.

Can you help? Just go here:

http://www.wecansolveit.org/oilandcoal