'Endless growth is like cancer': Businessman Dick Smith spends $1 million on confronting Grim Reaper ad warning high immigration will lead to war, famine and poverty in Australia
- Dick Smith launched a new 'Grim Reaper' advertising campaign on Tuesday
- Mr Smith is pressuring politicians to slash the number of immigrants accepted
- The millionaire businessman warns of a violent revolution and extreme poverty
- Mr Smith also wants the richest one percent of the population to pay more tax
The television advertisement, which aired for the first time on Tuesday, is based on the 1980s Grim Reaper AIDS campaign and features original actor John Stanton.
Paired with flashing images of poverty stricken children, war torn countries and crowded cities, Mr Stanton's familiar voice warns 'endless growth' will destroy the world.
The Dick Smith Fair Go campaign ad aims at putting pressure on politicians to slash the number of immigrants accepted into Australia and to increase taxes for the wealthy.
Mr Smith held a red pitchfork at the campaign premier in Sydney this week as an ominous symbol for an 'impending violent revolution'.
Australian businessman Dick Smith has launched a $1 million 'disturbing' ad campaign blaming economic and population growth for famine, disaster and war
Paired with flashing images of poverty stricken children, war town countries and crowded cities, Mr Stanton's familiar voice warns 'endless growth' will destroy the world
'Were told that endless economic growth is the end to all our problems,' Mr Stanton says as clips of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, Foreign Affairs Mnister Julie Bishop repeating the word 'growth' flicker across the screen (pictured)
'Were told that endless economic growth is the end to all our problems,' Mr Stanton says as clips of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, Foreign Affairs Mnister Julie Bishop repeating the word 'growth' flicker across the screen.
'But what if growth is the problem?'
'Endless growth is the way of a cancer cell, growing forever until it kills the host that sustains it - that's the path we are on today,' the confronting advertisement warns.
'Our growth-addicted economic system will see our children living in a world of eleven billion people, consuming and polluting more than our finite planet can withstand.'
'It's a path to either more and more inequality, or famine, disaster, war and collapse. Are we that stupid?'
Mr Smith is appealing for politicians to cut the annual number of immigrants in half and offers to invest $2 million into marginal seats in the next election for the political party that drafts a population plan.
Mr Smith told Daily Mail Australia he is proud of of the ad and said it had been well received.
'I'm hoping it will completely undermine our politicians who speak of endless growth,' he said.
When asked why he compared growth to cancer, Mr Smith said: 'Politicians speak of perpetual growth – the only thing I know that has perpetual growth are cancer cells and they normally kill the host.'
The television advertisement, which will air on Tuesday, is based on the 1980s Grim Reaper AIDS campaign (pictured) and will feature original actor John Stanton
At the Dick Smith Fair Go campaign's launch in Sydney on Tuesday, Mr Smith held a red pitchfork as an ominous symbol for an 'impending violent revolution' (pictured)
'Endless growth is the way of a cancer cells, growing forever until it kills the host that sustains it - that's the path were on today,' the confronting advertisement warns (pictured)
The millionaire entrepreneur's campaign aims at putting pressure on politicians to slash the number of immigrants accepted into Australia and to increase taxes for the wealthy
The outspoken One Nation supporter is also calling to close the gap between Australia's wealthiest people and the poor.
'Australia's wealthiest 1 percent own more than the bottom 70 percent, that's 17 million Aussies,' he said.
Mr Smith said that as a member of that top tier, he knows the group can afford to pay.
A few of his own office staff members have called the ad 'disturbing,' Mr Smith told Daily Mail Australia.
'Some of my staff said they wouldn’t want their children to see it, but every night the news has worse on it.'
'Endless growth will end up in revolution,' he said.
The $1 million ad will air daily for three weeks on television, radio and online starting at 2pm on Tuesday.
Mr Smith (centre) appeals for politicians to cut the annual number of immigrants in half and offers to invest $2 million in the political party that drafts a population plan
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