#1230: U.S. Green groups: selling our future for corporate $$$
The Wrong Kind of Green
By Johann Hari
This article appeared in the March 22, 2010 edition of The Nation.
March 4, 2010
Exerpt:
Why did America’s leading environmental groups jet to Copenhagen and lobby for policies that will lead to the faster death of the rainforests–and runaway global warming? Why are their lobbyists on Capitol Hill dismissing the only real solutions to climate change as “unworkable” and “unrealistic,” as though they were just another sooty tentacle of Big Coal?
A look at the most questionable ‘green’ organizations that are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world’s worst polluters.
At first glance, these questions will seem bizarre. Groups like Conservation International are among the most trusted “brands” in America, pledged to protect and defend nature. Yet as we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, many of the green organizations meant to be leading the fight are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world’s worst polluters–and burying science-based environmentalism in return. Sometimes the corruption is subtle; sometimes it is blatant. In the middle of a swirl of bogus climate scandals trumped up by deniers, here is the real Climategate, waiting to be exposed.
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For the full article go to: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100322/hari
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