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Here's an amazing old launch ad for the Xbox 360 that was pulled from airing way back in 2005 by Microsoft (except for being shown to a few select customers).
There have been a lot of rumors about whether this ad was pulled at the request of Microsoft's lawyers, or banned by the FCC. Microsoft commented, "While these particular rumors are not substantiated, Microsoft did make the conscious decision to only preview the ad to select audiences and not to air on network TV. The ad is called Standoff and we did 'preview' it with the lucky gamers who attended the recent Zero Hour launch event in Palmdale, Calif., which presented an ideal hard core gaming audience to introduce this ad spot to."
Sauce: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-pulls-handgun-360-ad/1100-6140730
What is the origin of the term Tree hugger?
"The first tree huggers were 294 men and 69 women belonging to the Bishnois branch of Hinduism, who, in 1730, died while trying to protect the trees in their village from being turned into the raw material for building a palace. They literally clung to the trees, while being slaughtered by the foresters. But their action led to a royal decree prohibiting the cutting of trees in any Bishnoi village. And now those villages are virtual wooded oases amidst an otherwise desert landscape.
Not only that, the Bishnois inspired the Chipko movement (chipko means “to cling” in Hindi) that started in the 1970s, when a group of peasant women in the Himalayan hills of northern India threw their arms around trees designated to be cut down. Within a few years, this tactic, also known as tree satyagraha, had spread across India, ultimately forcing reforms in forestry and a moratorium on tree felling in Himalayan regions." Info shared by Ecologically Conscious.
Photo is of village women of the Chipko movement in the early 70's in the Garhwal Hills of India, protecting the trees from being cut down. Stolen from Facebook
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