The road to hell is paved with corporate profits and compromised NGOs
From The Blog
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WATCH: The Ethics of Voluntary Carbon Offsets – Professor Clive Spash
Wrong Kind of Green Nov 10, 2019“At the individual level, there is the potential for emissions trading to have undesirable ethical and psychological impacts and to crowd out voluntary actions. I conclude that the focus on such markets is creating a distraction from the need for changing human behaviour, institutions and infrastructure.”
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Climate and War: Bill McKibben’s Deadly Miscalculation
Wrong Kind of Green Nov 06, 2019“Only when people join together, rejecting mass consumer culture embodied in capitalism and enforced through militarism, to instead create leverage through sustained civil disobedience and the creation of ecologically minded communities that view life as sacred, can the kind of radical demands needed for the potential of a livable future be realized.”
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Watch: Banking Nature
Wrong Kind of Green Oct 30, 2019“In the investigative documentary Banking Nature, Sandrine Feydel and Denis Delestrac delve into the wondrous world of green banking. Investors buy up the habitats of endangered species and then sell them in the form of shares.”
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Listen: How to Sell a Pretend Climate Movement: Reading Act IV of Cory Morningstar’s Series on the NGO Industrial Complex
Wrong Kind of Green Oct 28, 2019“But a marketing campaign is about storytelling—and storytelling is, in large part, about the use of language. And the language used to sell us a movement is consciously connected by its salespeople to the language used to sell the movement’s solutions.”