It's Not Easy Being Green: Are Some of the Biggest Enviro Groups Giant Sell-Outs?

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2. Yes, sadly, most of them.

Money changes everything.

It doesn't seem to take much money to change an idealist into a green-washer, or to shut the radicals out.

The "natural" gas industry seems to be particularly good at this. They've essentially bought public radio and television in the USA and are the primary supporters of alternative energy in popular media. (Example: GE sells both wind turbines and the natural gas turbines required to back them up. Win/win profits for GE, but an overall loss for the environment.)

Most of this isn't any kind of dark conspiracy, it's simply big business doing what big business does. It is amoral. A virus.

Unfortunately many large environmental organizations begin to follow the business model that is branded into our psyches as the children of big business, and these environmental organizations become amoral themselves, becoming more focused upon their growth as corporate entities, rather than the original goals of their founders.