Feb 13
20161
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Beyond Civilization Denialism Foundations industrial civilization Institutions
"I’ve come to a place where even many of the most steadfast social justice activists won’t go. They have and continue to speak truth to power concerning our institutions and larger systems but when it comes to looking at the foundation of those institutions and systems many fall silent."
Apr 29
20151
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capital Markets Capitalism Denialism Ecosystem Services neoliberalism New Economy United Nations
"As the TEEB synthesis report notes, there is big money in these schemes with the market for wetland credits in the USA estimated at $1.1 to $1.8 billion. No more worrying about absolute protection or annoying regulations – just opportunities to trade and create new financial instruments to capture those wild values roaming too freely for their own good."
Mar 12
20150
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org/1Sky Denialism Economic Growth McKibben The Guardian
"That might get people to really question closely about how all this came about and that would take people back to Wall Street and the Infinite Growth Paradigm that is not at all challenged by the mainstream environmental movement."
“When Cowspiracy was being made none of the major conservation or...
Jan 14
20150
Climate cultural polarisation Daniel Kahneman Denialism George Marshall Industrialization Naomi Klein Nature Conservancy Paul Kingsnorth UN
‘This is not what you might want to hear,’ he says, but ‘no amount of psychological awareness will overcome people’s reluctance to lower their standard of living. So that’s my bottom line: there is not much hope. I’m thoroughly pessimistic. I’m sorry.’
Nov 28
20140
350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Climate Change Consumption Denialism Green Economy Naomi Klein (350.org) New Economy
"All the major environmental groups know this, which is why they maintain, contrary to the requirements of a 2,000-watt society, that climate change can be tackled with minimal disruption to “the American way of life.” And Klein, you have to assume, knows it too. The irony of her book is that she ends up exactly where the “warmists” do, telling a fable she hopes will do some good."
"On The Laura Flanders Show: Author/activist Arundhati Roy on the Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar and the Western myth of Mahatma Gandhi."
"Left-green groups have achieved so little, in part because they have embraced corporate dissent and corporate dissent truly is cursed by the trade handling its messages from heaven. Consequently, these movements have been cursed, crushed, neutralised, neutered, made nonsensical by cooperating with a media system that is the sworn enemy of everything they are trying to achieve - deep change to the status quo."
"They do not deny global warming; instead they skate over the top of it, insisting that whatever limits and tipping points the Earth system might throw up, human technology and ingenuity will transcend them."
"National climate groups celebrated Obama's decision to delay the northern segment of KXL, intentionally overlooking that this supposed "win" was paired with an endorsement to fast track the southern arm of KXL, connecting a preexisting tar sands pipeline that ended in Oklahoma to refining communities and shipping ports in Texas. There was no delay for us--pipe was being put in the ground. In search of a "win," the people of KXL south were written off as a loss."