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Climategate is, ondanks mijn bescheiden waarschuwing hierboven, in Nederland gekaapt door de corporate youknowwhat-suckers van de PVV.

Daarom plaats ik hier de boodschap van James Corbett, van Corbett Report, gericht aan de milieubeweging, klimaatactivisten en wat mij betreft óók aan de politici die zichzelf serieus nemen.

In het bijzonder degenen die zichzelf progressief, en dus kritisch op het financiële establishment, achten.

Jullie klimaatdebat is gekaapt door het grootkapitaal. (Zoals links helaas wel vaker laat gebeuren) Omdat jullie, en tot voor enkele jaren geleden ook ikzelf, in de verzinsels van Al Gore trapten. Moet er onderhand niet een belletje gaan rinkelen?

A Message to the Environmental Movement | The Corbett Report

This is a message of hope and empowerment, but it requires us to look at a hard and uncomfortable truth:

Your movement has been usurped by the very same financial interests you thought you were fighting against.

You have suspected as much for years.

You watched at first with hope and excitement as your movement, your cause, your message began to spread, as it was taken up by the media and given attention, as conferences were organized and as the ideas you had struggled so long and hard to be heard were talked about nationally. Then internationally.

You watched with growing unease as the message was simplified. First it became a slogan. Then it became a brand. Soon it was nothing more than a label and it became attached to products. The ideas you had once fought for were now being sold back to you. For profit.

You watched with growing unease as the message became parroted, not argued, worn like a fashion rather than something that came from the conviction of understanding.

You disagreed when the slogans–and then the science–were dumbed down. When carbon dioxide became the focus and CO2 was taken up as a political cause. Soon it was the only cause.

You knew that Al Gore was not a scientist, that his evidence was factually incorrect, that the movement was being taken over by a cause that was not your own, one that relied on beliefs you did not share to propose a solution you did not want. It began to reach a breaking point when you saw that the solutions being proposed were not solutions at all, when they began to propose new taxes and new markets that would only serve to line their own pockets.

You knew something was wrong when you saw them argue for a cap-and-trade scheme proposed by Ken Lay, when you saw Goldman Sachs position itself to ride the carbon trading bubble, when the whole thrust of the movement became ways to make money or spend money or raise money from this panic.

Your movement had been hijacked.

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