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The Unannounced Death of the Green New Deal: Part 2 – An Object of Projection

"Prevarication is the process whereby lies are told and truths are omitted. The vast majority of voices speaking for or about the Green New Deal have either a narrative or a funding stream to protect, sometimes it’s both."

The Unannounced Death of the Green New Deal: Part 1 – What Happened to the People’s Plan?

"You could say that the Green New Deal died when the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force recommendations came through, or perhaps that was the moment we knew that the Jemez Principles  and the principles of a Just Transition had been abandoned more than a year before? Perhaps they were abandoned shortly after John Washington's straight forward, perfectly articulated warning to New Consensus?"

Planet of the Humans Backlash

"It is a statement of fact that environmental groups have deep ties to the corporate set. Almost all the major environmental groups receive significant cash from the mega-rich or their foundations... It beggars belief that these dependencies don’t shape their policy positions."

Clinton to McKibben to Steyer to Podesta: Comments on Planet of the Humans by Michael Swifte

"To understand the "damage" Bill McKibben claims the Planet of the Humans documentary has done to the climate justice movement you have to look at where 350 dot org began."

Listen: The Green New Deal & What it Leaves Out: Reading Act V of Cory Morningstar’s Research

"This is a red flag. As Morningstar explained previously, seeking net-zero emissions does not mean radically reducing the amount of carbon the U.S. pumps into the atmosphere. It means using technology and other instruments to offset or capture the same amount of carbon our society is creating."

The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: The Green New Deal is the Trojan Horse for the Financialization of Nature [ACT V]

The implementation of payments for ecosystem services (the financialization and privatization of nature, global in scale) is "expected to be adopted during the fifteenth meeting in Beijing in 2020."