Could Greenpeace go bust?
Aug 10, 2010
Bishop Hill in Greens

This is interesting:

Greenpeace needs ‘to bring in more than $700,000 a day just to keep the lights on’

I've always thought that there was something of a flaw in the green business model. Environmental groups depend fundamentally on capitalism - they need it to generate the surplus wealth that leads to donations

Greenpeace is heavily funded by many foundations, among which are the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Bauman Family Foundation, the Blue Moon Fund, the Columbia Foundation, the Compton Foundation, the Minneapolis Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, Ted Turner's Turner Foundation. The organization has also drawn support from numerous celebrities, including singers Sting, Tom Jones, and Elton John, who have sponsored its "save the rainforest" campaigns.

Anti-capitalism, which is at the core of environmentalism, is always eventually going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

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