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The head of Bezos's philanthropic 'Earth Fund' saying the not-so-quiet part out loud: A core aim of their funding for eNGOs is to co-opt or otherwise neuter anti-capitalist tendencies in the climate movement
A passage from an FT article reads: "Steer said last month on Cleaning Up, a podcast about the energy transition, that the fund had paid out $2.5bn so far, in part to help professionalise climate bodies. “There is still a pretty strong legacy in some mainstream environmental organisations against capitalism quite frankly,” including opposition to carbon markets as a climate solution, he said."
February 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM