http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/02/03/baptists-and-bootleggers-sierra-club-and-natural-gas-money-2/ Climate Change News & Analysis Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:41:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/02/03/baptists-and-bootleggers-sierra-club-and-natural-gas-money-2/comment-page-1/#comment-68040 Jeff Moore Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:11:18 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=12848#comment-68040 I don't think its polar "front group" or "best of the left". Its structural. The idea that a huge hierarchy like Sierra Club (SC) is going to reform industry isn't born out by the last few decades. In the last 30 years in Washington State, SC compromise­d, often rejected direct action and protest, while the old growth forest was reduced to 1% of what it was in 1980. Big budgets and top down NGOs get modest to negative results. We need to do our own horizontal solidarity building and assume that industry will be effective in reforming all the big time environmen­tal NGOs. Big Oil, Logging, and big "left" non-profit­s share an emphasis on PR, lobbying, and "education­" rather than action and building determined act­ion within the thousands of grass roots groups. I don’t think its polar “front group” or “best of the left”. Its structural.
The idea that a huge hierarchy like Sierra Club (SC) is going to reform industry isn’t born out by the last few decades. In the last 30 years in Washington State, SC compromise­d, often rejected direct action and protest, while the old growth forest was reduced to 1% of what it was in 1980.
Big budgets and top down NGOs get modest to negative results. We need to do our own horizontal solidarity building and assume that industry will be effective in reforming all the big time environmen­tal NGOs. Big Oil, Logging, and big “left” non-profit­s share an emphasis on PR, lobbying, and “education­” rather than action and building determined act­ion within the thousands of grass roots groups.

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