PSA is a public service announcement, an awareness campaign.
It could be as simple as teaching everyone to walk on the same side of the footpath in each direction, to demonstrating how quickly a fire spreads and ways to prevent and react.
How to drive through roundabouts.
For fucking real.
Mandatory day long lesson on how China is not your enemy
If the headlights symbol on your dashboard is blue and the lines coming from it are straight (not slanted), that means your high beams are on. Fucking turn them off
Trains and other public transportation will reduce traffic!
Potentially significantly!
Vote for trains!
Stop throwing trash on the street and/or the adjacent farmland because it ends up in the dirt thus the food. Also same with the ocean.
Stop throwing trash […] because it ends up in the dirt thus the food.
This reminds me that most of the anti-littering ads I’ve seen are more about shaming or about dying wildlife than about direct impact to all of us. This is an issue that could be simple to illustrate with a video PSA, following how littered trash contaminants find their way into our food chain and to our mouths. Makes it more personal and hopefully icky enough.
Don’t Mess with Texas was a successful anti-littering campaign because it was empowering to protect the place. I like the tone your propose, informative but not demeaning. Instead, the municipalities focus more on recycling bins, but not enough trash cans (especially ones that get emptied regularly) so it’s unfortunately a systemic problem
Racism and hate. I’d love to address drivers tailgating (#1 cause of accidents, so easily preventable), or hating cyclists (every person who uses a bike instead of a car means less road congestion, less waiting, not more).
But I think addressing racism would have a bigger impact right now - we’re genetically the same, cultural differences are compatible, bad journalism and social media prods us to get angry, treating others like shit only makes others do the same, etc.
I think I’d need several sessions to get anywhere, honestly. I think I’d try to demonstrate that many people, at least where I live, don’t actually know nor have ever wondered what they believe in, what their values are, what point there is to their lives besides hedonism and consumerism (might as well die if your life is that vacuous, NGL) and whether they even believe in objective truths and right and wrongs. Instead of a regular PSA, I’d make a live interview with random members of the crowd. And finally I’d tell them that all their social issues, all the issues regarding the distribution of resources, their misogyny, their love of imperialism, the reason they’re not raising families, etc etc are born from this ideological vacuum (and that comes with a lack of a moral framework, ofc). And I’d tell them it’s their duty to live like humans, not beasts, and not to be surprised if they end up in hell (they don’t believe in it but still, and I’d comment on that and say it’s part of it, because acknowledging a day of Judgment would imply personal responsibility) if they keep acting this way, they’ve been warned again and again.
