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“Saw someone complaining about boat ads at the beach,” the OP wrote. “May I introduce you to sky ads?”<\/p>\n
Although the site was viewed by some commenters as “dystopian<\/a>,” a number of social media posts have shown that advertising is now actually a regular occurrence at beaches.<\/p>\n Posts on Reddit and TikTok sparked outrage by showing a digital billboard moving across the water on a boat the size of a barge. Another Reddit post showed a similar digital billboard being towed across the water, also just off the Florida coast.<\/p>\n It’s not just beaches, either. Whether you’re stuck in traffic, pumping gas, or just going to school, you could now potentially be inundated with advertising.<\/p>\n Last year, money spent on advertising in the United States increased 5.6% over 2023 to an estimated $360 billion<\/a> \u2014 and that doesn’t even include political advertising. All that comes with a high cost.<\/p>\n Advertising pushes an overall culture of consumerism, where people strive to get the best and latest products. Companies, in turn, create more and more products to sell.<\/p>\n The manufacturing and production sector<\/a> is responsible for roughly 20% of global carbon pollution, and more than half of the world’s energy usage. It also contributes greatly to the trillions of pieces of plastic that pollute our planet and waterways.<\/p>\n Purpose Disruptors, a London-based organization dedicated to advertising, created a metric called “advertised emissions<\/a>“, which measures the carbon pollution that results from increased sales due to advertising. In 2022, its research found, the United Kingdom generated nearly 230 million tons of “advertised emissions.”<\/p>\n Not surprisingly, consumerism isn’t favored by many r\/Anticonsumption<\/a> posters, and this beach billboard drew considerable ire.<\/p>\n “I’ve heard of carrier pigeons,” one commenter wrote<\/a>, “but this is too much.”<\/p>\n Join our free newsletter<\/a> for good news<\/strong> and useful tips<\/strong>, and don’t miss this cool list<\/a> of easy ways to help yourself while helping the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Redditor’s day at the beach became a little less relaxing after spotting an ad flying over the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":206476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[113558,210,564,113557,33551,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-206475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-digital-billboard","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-maryland","11":"tag-ocean-city","12":"tag-redditor","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115160568703132345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}