Nov 14
20161
Friends of the Earth, United Nations
"Clean Energy" #keepitintheground AFL-CIO Al Gore Behavourial Change Biomass Bob Costanza carbon bubbles carbon budgets carbon capture and storage Catherine McKenna CERES-WE MEAN BUSINESS Christiana Figueres Climate Project COP22 David Roberts Friends of the Earth George Monbiot Grantham Institute James Hansen Jeremy Corbyn Language Nicholas Stern nuclear energy Podesta psywar stranded assets unburnable carbon UNFCCC US Department of Energy
"How do fundamentally economic concepts like unburnable carbon, stranded assets, and carbon budgets work for the inevitable continuation of fossil fuel extraction and the wholesale destruction of forests? How much political will for carbon capture and storage is out there and how is it expressed? How are pundits, mouthpieces or messaging agents able to use “clean energy” to mask their support for energy that is in no way clean?"
May 04
20161
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ceres, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz]
"Clean Energy" "Sustainable Capitalism" 350 Avaaz Ceres COP21 New Economy Purpose Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) United Nations (UN)
The ‘clean energy’ plan of the UN, Wall Street and NGOs–that championed the financial elite at COP21–relies on two primary projects: 1. a global nuclear power renaissance, and 2. privatization of Indigenous and public resources worldwide.
As the report concludes, mining projects often perpetuate global inequalities, with companies from the “Global North” extracting resources from the “Global South.”
Apr 25
20165
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ford Foundation, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, NoVo Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"Clean Energy" "Sustainable Capitalism" 350.org Bolivia Consumerism as Activism COP15 Divestment G77 KXL Naomi Klein New Economy private equity privatization R2P Warren Buffett YouTopia
"Having hijacked the environmental movement on behalf of Wall Street, these false fronts are currently pressing for changes in international law that would give the finance sector carte blanche in privatizing all of nature."
Apr 22
20162
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Clean Energy" Acid Mine Draining Avaaz Denialism Divestment Environmentalism as Anthropocentrism GCCA hedge funds Lithium People's Climate March private equity TckTckTck
"In a perfect world, in another time, perhaps renewable energies will be made of butterfly kisses and rare, precious Earth minerals will fall from the sky."
Feb 13
20160
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Foundations
"Clean Energy" Agriculture Berkshire Hathaway Celebrities for Foreign Policy Clayton Homes Clinton G2 Investment Group Gates Global Philanthropy Group Guggenheim Partners Howard Warren Buffett i(x) i(x) Investments New Economy Water Scarcity
“It’s about taking the potential for capitalism to the next level.”
"All cons begin with a small truth, followed by a big lie. The bigger the lie, the more they believe. By supporting the ‘new economy’ and ‘clean energy’ cons, compromised NGOs demonstrate that sustaining privatization is child’s play."
Aug 18
20150
To me it is clear that the UN climate chief’s comments were tailored for the people who know that the real game lies in the continuation of coal mining, and sucking oil and gas under the nebulous cloak of “clean energy”.