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The Wrong Kind of Green on Democracy Now

03/09/10

09:41:31 pm, by edoherty

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Categories: Environment, Transportation, Oil & Gas

The Wrong Kind of Green on Democracy Now

Since Amy Goodman was harassed by Canadian border officials on her way to a presentation here in Vancouver, I have been watching Democracy Now semi-regularly. This segment is very interesting, it is mostly about how corporate money has corrupted some big environmental groups. But the conclusion is that people getting out on the street and taking direct action is the way to drive real change, for example stopping airport expansion in the UK.

The Real Climategate: Conservation Groups Align with World’s Worst Polluters

Major environmental groups are coming under criticism from within their own ranks for taking positions that some say are antithetical to their stated missions of saving the planet. In the latest issue of The Nation magazine, the British journalist Johann Hari writes, “As we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, many of the green organizations meant to be leading the fight are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world’s worst polluters—and burying science-based environmentalism in return…In the middle of a swirl of bogus climate scandals trumped up by deniers, here is the real Climategate.”

Guests:

Johann Hari, columnist for the London Independent. His article for The Nation is called ‘The Wrong Kind of Green’

Christine MacDonald, journalist who used to work for Conservation International, or CI. She is the author of Green, Inc.: An Environmental Insider Reveals How a Good Cause Has Gone Bad.

Watch the show at http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/9/the_real_climategate_conservation_groups_align

Read 'The Wrong Kind of Green' at
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100322/hari

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