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Big Environment’s Big Bucks
This week grassroots group Freedom Action is running an Earth Day-related advertisement that exposes what a lucrative industry Big Environmental Activism has become.
This week grassroots group Freedom Action is running an Earth Day-related advertisement that exposes what a lucrative industry Big Environmental Activism has become. As you can see from the ad, eight of the best-known groups take in tens of millions (some hundreds of millions) of dollars in annual revenues, and their presidents/CEOs enjoy hefty salaries for their advocacy. I’ve exposed some of this in blogs in the past, as have others. As the ad illustrates, the corporations like General Electric and Duke Energy that promote cap-and-tax in conjunction with these “green groups” stand to benefit enormously, while the enormous costs fall on the backs of everyday consumers of electricity and gasoline.
All made possible by their friends in Big Government.
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Becky| 4.19.10 @ 10:55PM
Yep, it's a scam. From where I sit involved in the building industry for 23 years, especially with homebuilders, those who jumped into the green/ energy star stuff did so mainly for marketing reasons.
I tend to carry that into every business. My husband and I are so fed up with the phony green labels (and the pink), we avoid those products wherever possible. It targets emotions more than actual products.
I don't have to read it to understand what is going on. Business thinks most of the public is as caught up as the activists, and that you will buy from them even at a premium because they support such good causes.
In WWII when the public was wearing hand me downs and saving tin foil, they were green.
deexu| 4.20.10 @ 3:25AM
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louis vuitton | 4.26.10 @ 10:42PM
after a year of tough votes forced by the Obama administration and the congressional Democratic leadership. canada goose Before the election it was all about clean energy. That message resonated with the entire left.