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Exxon plays NGO's for fools again
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Monday October 13, 2003 18:21 by max broker - Karmabanque
Carbon-trading saga continues.... The World Wildlife Fund, and Stop Esso need to be pushing a new strategy, one in which they are coordinating financial types around the world to be buyers of carbon credits, thereby removing them from circulation for good. ExxonMobil is jerking NGO's around and trying to divert attention from the real issues. As The Guardian reports today, ExxonMobil (XOM) is afraid that Russia might support the Kyoto protocol and so they are trying to greenwash themselves a bit this month, inviting the World Wildlife Fund over for a spot of tea, but excluding Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and other groups that support the Stop Esso campaign; flaming some inter-NGO rivalry undoubtedly as the Fortune 500 likes to do, knowing full well that there is no NGO solidarity among the world's 16,000, and there is no possible way, under the current NGO-preferred operating methodologies of these groups ever developing franchise threatening leverage... Financial leverage, the kind that people listen to. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5any CEO worth their place in the business world, after buying such credits, would sell them on either when their profits are down (and need stock value) or when such credits are at a premuim (making a shitload of money).
Capitalists are not our friends.
our friends are not capitalists.
No, but what about the millions sitting around in NGO accounts, Groups like 'greenpeace' or 'stop esso' have the funds and they could be used to remove Carbon credits from circulation.
"instead of raising 150 million to run your NGO this year to wage a campaign to convince indifferent CEO's to give a flying fcuk about the environment, spend that money hiring bankers and advisors to help set up a fund whose sole aim is to buy into these credits... "
global warming is not necessarily synchronised with socialist revolution....so credit buying is a good idea - as one of many tactics
If global warming _is_ synchronised with the changover from capitalism, then the entire planet is misteriously linked to the activities of humans and specifically, the damage we are doing - i.e. in a mathametically precise way - the planet's about to burn, but wait, here comes the revolution!
If we _are_ that closely aligned to the planet, then that sounds more like a deep spiritual cosmic link - the kind that would necessitate doing sth now.
I went to the SWP conference - Marxism 2001 - and heard Mark Walsh Speak . He's in environmental science in UCD. Even he, a Socialist Worker, having outlined global warming, and Capitalism's blame for it, said 'but we can put lagging jackets on our boilers too!' This suggested that he saw the benefits in doing sth now ,as opposed to _only_ agitating for an end to the capitalist system.
Why? Because global warming isn't necessarily synchronised with socialist revolution.