Samuel L. Jackson gives climate pollution the bird in a Swedish power company’s advertisement promoting offshore wind, offering a strident defense of an industry under sustained attack from President Donald Trump.
The “Pulp Fiction” star never mentions Trump in the one-minute ad from Vattenfall, which operates some of the largest offshore wind farms in Europe. But the video tackles criticisms that the president lobbed at wind power earlier this week, when he urged EU leaders during a visit to Scotland to stop erecting “ugly windmills.”
“It kills the birds, ruins the look, they’re noisy. If you see them from your house, your house is worth like 50 percent — or more — less. I just think it’s a very bad thing,” Trump said Monday.
As Jackson is seen meandering along a windswept coastline, gazing through binoculars at a line of turbines on the horizon, he said: “Wind farms. Loud, ugly, harmful to nature. Who says that? These giants are standing tall against fossil fuels, rising up out of the ocean like a middle finger to CO2.”
