save the greenbacks sale

[Anonymous]

Steve, are you saying that these "inconvenient environmentalists" are being ridiculed unfairly
When I think of the terms "environmentalists" and "environmental organizations", I think of NPO's like Greenpeace, WWF ..."

I don't.
I used to but I don't anymore.

As former California assemblyman Jesse Unruh said;

Money is the mothers milk of politics

The funding questions have become so central, so great and so critical that the new environmental groups are better at saving greenbacks now then saving anything else.
Using environmental problems to gain funding is not the same as using funding to solve problems.

A central theme of the past decade was that NGOs would influence businesses to become their better selves and shift them into more sustainable practices...rewarding them with a label that they would enable and procure.
What actually happened was that the businesses influenced the NGOs to become their tag alongs to maintain their own credibility and allow the illusion of progress and success. Standards were lowered to get the label and at times, even supplied for free.
Todays environmentalist doesn't like to blow the whistle on his new partners and he sure doesn't like it blown on him.
The original culprits are not even known anymore and remain cloaked behind their new agents of "PR and reform."

The time is right for new models and new groups to show the way.
Perhaps the scandals of the big eco-hogs will now make it possible for other, more talented, more effective groups to emerge and grow.
This actually appears to be underway.
Steve

 

[Anonymous]

Now doesn't that read a whole lot better

 

[clarionreef]

Do you label yourself an environmentalist?

Not lately.
I used to spear halibut . Got a 54 pounder freediving when I was 19!
I considered myself a halibut spearfisher back then....but not lately.

I went out last week off Del Monte Beach and got skunked.
In fact, I ain't caught a rabbit...er halibut for years now.

Resting on old, past achievement sure doesn't count in business....in love....or in spearfishing....and I don't think it should count in environmental work either.

You have to earn it...update it and hopefully better it.
You know why?

Because in environmental work...people sell out a lot...and if they don't re-set and earn the title periodically, they should lose their membership with the label.
A founding father...Jefferson no doubt.... said that

the tree of liberty has to be refreshed with the blood of patriots

I might say I want to be an environmentalist again but that remains to be seen. I haven't killed anything in awhile.
Steve

 

[RichardS]

Perhaps KIA should change it to "Save the Humorback". Maybe have politically incorrect comedians being beaten with clubs by environmentalist's and needing to be saved.