SurvivaBall: New Yes Men Prank Focuses On Global Warming (VIDEO)

The Yes Men are back and this time they're going green. Nine months ago the group of socially-minded pranksters pulled off an elaborate hoax, distributing thousands of free copies of a fake edition of the "New York Times" dated July 4, 2009. It declared that the Iraq War was over, that Bush had been indicted for treason, and that all public universities were now free.

While the Yes Men, aka Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos, generally practice "identity correction" by pretending to be spokesmen for prominent organizations such as the WTO, McDonalds, or Dow, in the case of their newest prank the men created their own company: SurvivaBall.

"SurvivaBall is nothing less than a self-contained living system--truly, a gated community for one. If you have a SurvivaBall, even if everyone else is dying, at least you can weather all storms."

Of course, while SurvivaBall is its own brand, it was created by America's largest companies (the Website boasts the logos of Shell, Ford, Exxon, GM, etc.) to avoid dealing with their impact on the environment in a non-profitable manner:

"While others look to Senate bills or UN accords for a climate solution, we look to our best engineers. And our expert team has come up with a solution in perfect accord with our values. Technological. Profitable. And, dare we say, beautiful."

The Yes Men first introduced the SurvivaBall back in 2006 as the brainchild of Haillburton. "We were targeting Halliburton because they're the most iconic example of companies profiting from global warming, climate changes and even natural disasters like in New Orleans," they said.

The ball itself, which will allow you to live without the pesky reliance on nature, features a Food Reprocessor, Hyperfine Elasticity Units, and Communications and Infrastructure Monitoring Assemblage, and can suck energy from a variety of sources.

A tipster told Gawker that the Website and following video "are just laying the groundwork for next week's stunt" which will include floating a bunch of folks in "SurvivaBalls" down the East River.


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[scratches]

The yes men are good for a laugh but still does it really change anything . laughing at the issue isn't that productive.

[jer9848]

SEXY!!!!!

[Tear59]

repeat, renew?

Boring

[Harvee Wallbanger]

thats sick

[ghee99]

dear lord
......tedious.

[jan4insight]

I love the YES men!!!!!!!

[goodog]

It doesn't seem like a prank more than it is a funny video.

[underoath]

These guy's are great.

[Chapmanp2]

The YES men RULE!!! When I saw these guys serving "reburgers" to college students I almost pissed myself. Hats off...

[fumes]

it's probably in bad taste to make fun of such a serious issue as a trace gas nearing it's trace gas tipping point and destroying us all..

[filo]

Probably....but it's gallows humor that make several points very well.

[blessedtoes]

A decade ago I was versed in performance artists and activists like these guys but professional studies have taken me away from that world.... I have never heard of these guys, but they win. And should be in charge. Of something important.

[globality]

New old News ?

Rent their movie it is quite good

[JScott]

I thought they were demonstrating about awareness about corporate ag and the associated obesity problem.

[InstantDogma]

Most climatologist will tell you off-record it's over, we're done. If we we wre going to survive as species, we would have had to change a long time ago. Sadly, the morons who make up our society don't actually understand the concept of science.

[Taylor Baybutt]

and most non climatoligists that are still scientists will tell you that global warming isn't actually happening. It is only spread by people like this, activists and advocates.

www.wattsupwiththat.com

[Brandon Chavez Calderon]

There are so many things wrong with your comment.
1) You don't go to your orthopedic specialist for a second opinion when you have your cardiologist tell you that you have heart disease...stay with the experts in their field, which is why they study it...to be an expert in their field.
2) Your assumption and propaganda website is totally off! For one the main non-climatologist that are still scientists that disagree with global warming are, not surprising, petroleum geologists and meteorologists (who study short-term phenomenon) http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/19/eco.globalwarmingsurvey/index.html

I am a non-climatologists scientist (Biologist), and let me tell you there is pretty much a consensus by my colleagues who have examined the data. Here is a link to a site that actually uses the NOAA and NGDA data and plots it, and even provides the raw data if you want to error check (we have, he plots it correct) if you don't have access to an academic journal, which says the same thing in many many publications. http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/global_warming_myths.html#w5uinOIqTokU

[patrickmcdougal]

What's this climate change they speak of?