Sep 11
20200
Celebrity [Capitalism | Humanitarianism | Neoliberalism], Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Al Gore Bill McKibben Biofuels Ceres Divestment Faux Left George Monbiot Green Century Funds Green New Deal Josh Fox Militarism Mining Naomi Klein Planet of the Humans Rasmussen Foundation Rockefeller Foundation Sunrise Movement The Guardian The Solutions Project
"We must take control of our environmental movement and our future from billionaires and their permanent war on Planet Earth. They are not our friends." - Jeff Gibbs, director of "Planet of the Humans"
Aug 23
20200
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Biomass Foundations George Monbiot industrial civilization Planet of the Humans “Green renewable” energy
"Slowly but surely the capitalists have turned the environmental movement to a narrow focus on climate change and the supposed solution of green energy because it’s a $50 trillion dollar profit center."
Oct 19
20192
Social Engineering, United Nations
#NaturalClimateSolutions (NCS) 'negative emissions technologies' (NETs) 45Q tax credit Antonio Guterres Atlantic Council BECCS Bernie Sanders Bioenergy CCUS Cory Booker Ed Markey Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) George Monbiot Green New Deal Greta Thunberg International Energy Agency IPCC Kirsten Gillibrand Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences monoculture plantations OGCI Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) Saudi Aramco Spectacle The Guardian The Institute of Energy Economics-Japan UN Climate Action Summit USE IT Act
"Perfect distractions come with talking points and bring framing to the issue they come to embody. Like the XR leaders, and GND proponents, Greta, under advice from a range of experts, leaves the fantastical assumptions in the IPCC mitigation plans well alone."
Sep 26
20191
Carbon Markets | REDD, Celebrity [Capitalism | Humanitarianism | Neoliberalism], Conservation International, Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
ClimateWorks Connect4Climate (the World Bank) Conservation International Food and Land Use Coalition George Monbiot Good Energies Greta Thunberg Natural Climate Solutions Nature4Climate New Deal for Nature Shell the David & Lucile Packard Foundation the Ford Foundation The Forgotten Solution the Global Landscapes Forum the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation The Guardian The Nature Conservancy UN-REDD UNREDD+ WBCSD We Mean Business WWF
Here, Greta Thunberg becomes the official face for, and of, corporate capture. The rebranding of REDD (the UN "reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation" market mechanism), and the coming New Deal for Nature – under the auspices and brand of "natural climate solutions".
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?"