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Hari in The Nation reveals that top environmental orgs are corrupted by corporate cash …

It has taken two decades for this corrupting relationship to become the norm among the big green organizations. Imagine this happening in any other sphere, and it becomes clear how surreal it is. It is as though Amnesty International’s human rights reports came sponsored by a coalition of the Burmese junta, Dick Cheney and Robert Mugabe. For environmental groups to take funding from the very people who are destroying the environment is preposterous–yet it is now taken for granted.

corrupt green orgs named in the article include Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund, NRDC, The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International – mab .. read more