Thursday, January 30, 2014

The Green Shock Doctrine

Click here to access the introduction to the series of PDF articles from the Global Justice Ecology Project.
There is a crucial and obvious need for a powerful global movement to tackle the climate crisis.  But this movement will not be based on reform. Capitalism and the markets have led us to the brink of the abyss.  They will not provide our parachute.  The system cannot be reformed.  It must be transformed. 
The latest report, Part II, argues:
Big Green NGOs are complicit in the advancement of the pro-corporate, market-obsessed, and profit-motivated Green Economy--including prominent organizations like the IUCN, CI, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, The Nature Conservancy, and Environmental Defense Fund.