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Conscious efforts to subvert or otherwise corrupt organizations and individuals who are concerned about social issues is a sadly long tradition. The environmental movement is no exception. Through many front groups, financial wranglings through contributions and outright blackmail, industries have tamed or corrupted many of the organizations who were once among their greatest critics and opponents. The corrupting influence on the politics of the environment has left us with, at times, a movement that has yet to address the needs of fighting climate change immediately-- instead, calling for the slow changing of emissions from various parts of industrial life-- and protecting the biggest contributions to their myriad organizations. When budgets and mainstream appearances with politicians become the order of the day, effective protest is muted and rendered toothless.

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Conscious efforts to subvert or otherwise corrupt organizations and individuals who are concerned about social issues is a sadly long tradition. The environmental movement is no exception. Through many front groups, financial wranglings through contributions and outright blackmail, industries have tamed or corrupted many of the organizations who were once among their greatest critics and opponents. The corrupting influence on the politics of the environment has left us with, at times, a movement that has yet to address the needs of fighting climate change immediately-- instead, calling for the slow changing of emissions from various parts of industrial life-- and protecting the biggest contributions to their myriad organizations. When budgets and mainstream appearances with politicians become the order of the day, effective protest is muted and rendered toothless.

Eco-Apartheid: Why is the green movement so lily white?

Eco-Apartheid: Why is the green movement so lily white?
http://www.commongroundmag.com/2007/04/eco-apartheid0704.html
By Van Jones // April 2007, common ground

In 2005, Americans sat before our television sets, horrified by images of an
American city underwater. In 2006, we sat in the nation's movie houses,
watching Al Gore make the case for urgent action. In 2007, Americans are
finally rising from our seats and demanding action to reverse global
warming.

Students are planning marches and protests to push Congress to curb

Big Enviro Groups ‘Holding Back’ Anti-Warming Movement

Big Enviro Groups ‘Holding Back’ Anti-Warming Movement
Some critics call the best mainstream proposals too little, too late

by Megan Tady

The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca
First published in the US by The NewStandard

The heat is on environmental groups and politicians to churn out proposals
for stabilizing the planet’s rising temperatures, but some
environmentalists say existing plans to cool climate change are timid.
Their criticism reveals a rift between two approaches: preserving the
American way of life at the expense of quicker solutions, or changing the

Somba Ke: The Money Place

Somba Ke: The Money Place
by Macdonald Stainsby
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/stainsby031206.html
MRZine December 03/2006

Not many discuss contemporary geopolitics in a way that brings together both the Manhattan Project of the 1940s and today's global Risk-like die rolls for energy resources, but the producers of the documentary Somba Ke: The Money Place have made a film that does precisely that.

The Bi-Partisan Politics of Oil: Crude Alliance

March 9 / 11, 2007
The Bi-Partisan Politics of Oil
Crude Alliance

By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Counterpunch

Soon after John Kerry had sewed up the delegates needed to seize the Democratic nomination for president in the spring of 2004, he huddled for two hours with James Hoffa, Jr., the noxious boss of the Teamsters union. The topic was oil. The Teamsters wanted more of it at cheaper prices. They had suspicions about Kerry. After all, the senator had already won the backing of the Sierra Club, who touted him as the most environmentally enlightened member of the US senate.

The Thrill is Gone

The Withering of the American Environmental Movement
The Thrill is Gone

By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR; February 3 / 4, 2007
http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair...

"The Dark Ages. They haven't ended yet."

--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

A kind of political narcolepsy has settled over the American environmental movement. Call it eco-ennui. You may know the feeling: restlessness, lack of direction, evaporating budgets, diminished expectations, a simmering discontent. The affliction appears acute, possibly systemic.

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