All right, this clip is not from the boys down under, it is from Pen and Teller – the professional sceptics who put on the show ‘Bullshit’.
In their role as sceptics, they have gone on to challenge much – and not everyone is always pleased with them. Here, they are teaching a lesson in how ‘environmental enthusiasm’ – a very real and honest desire to protect the Earth from harm by us, humans – can be so very easily abused by those who wish to use these honest, trusting and eager activists and subvert them and their voices for something completely different…
In some ways, it kind of is like that ‘Trojan Horse’ idea!
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 
July 7, 2008 at 11:46
Oh, that gave me a really good laugh, Xanthippa. Thank you from the bottom of my belly.
I’ve pinched the link for my blog (attributed to you, bien sur).
Margaret
July 7, 2008 at 12:47
When I started this ‘video-clip miniseries’, I had this clip ready to go. However, since then, I have come across it as a post on ‘Whatt’s Up With That?’ http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/penn-jillette-on-skepticism/
There is some good commentary on it there…