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

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6. The problem is, you can't get the money to operate a large org without a business model

And the only kind that the people with spare money understand is the kind they already know - the kind that let them get that spare money in the first place. It's the way the whole game is built and played. And the instant a reformist organization accepts that fact, the jaws of the trap snap shut and the rest of the money players come in to feed. The bigger, fatter and stronger such an organization becomes, the more attractive a meal it becomes for the predators. The money guys are after one of two outcomes: co-opt or neutralize. You can join Lovins, Brand and Lynas in the spotlight, or you can expire with a whimper in the darkness of obscurity - it doesn't matter to them which you choose.

Nothing personal, you understand - it's just business...