Re: ‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Hum Archived Message
Posted by brooks on September 7, 2020, 1:12 pm, in reply to "Re: ‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Hum"
Cheers Ian. re This article seems to follow the Morningstar approach of drawing attention to all the connections between prominent enviros and behind-the-scenes moneyed interests, but without making any specific accusations. It's not a pretty picture though and, I suppose, fairly damning in & of itself In terms of specific accusations, I think it's basically a defense of "Planet of the Humans" against its attackers and an expose of the latter's hypocrisy in trying to censor journalism that reveals their ties to the same rapacious planet-destroying oligarchs via large "foundations" that they themselves identify (correctly) as the class/environmental enemy. Which also reinforces one of the documentary's central themes: that there is no ethical or environmental way to transition to a "Green Economy" that will save the planet with continued growth, industrialization, and all the extractive industries and environmental destruction needed to produce non-renewable technologies. But you're right, much of it is just pointing out those connections and exposing the fraud of the "disinvestment" shell game. I was also glad to see Monbiot exposed as part of that; no real surprise. Blumenthal had mentioned he was working on this quite a while ago and I had been wondering what had happened to it, but didn't realize it would be such a long and involved piece. I'll be curious to see if Klein will respond.
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