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Originally Posted by daswig
Bling, "environmentalism" has become BIG business. I don't know if you realize just how much money is involved. I have a friend who was a charter member of Greenpeace Hawaii, who left because it stopped being about the problem and started being a cash cow. He tells very interesting stories. Their cash cow keeps producing ONLY as long as people are scared. Hence the relevance of the scare tactics of the 1970's.
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I've worked with Greenpeace USA and I can tell you that they are in no way a "wealthy" organization. Perhaps your friend had found some bad people in Hawaii but please don't tar the entire organization based on one story.
Furthermore, the idea that environmentalism has become big business does not fit with my experiences with several different national environmental groups. The number one cause of activist attrition that I saw was the inablility to make a living doing full time organizing.