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Environmental activists and authors including [[Sharon Beder]] [http://homepage.mac.com/herinst/sbeder/home.html] [[Mark Dowie]], [[Peter Montague]], [[Brian Tokar]], [[John Stauber]] and others whose articles and interviews are listed below have for decades criticized Big Green for soaking up the majority of the hundreds of millions of US dollars raised and spent each year on environmental activism, education and lobbying; raised for often abandoning or undercutting grassroots environmental struggles for fundamental change; and for often selling out the environment and the grassroots movement through business partnerships and agreements with compromising politicians.
Corporate PR experts such as [[Peter Sandman]], [[Ron Duchin]] of the [[Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin]] firm and [[E. Bruce Harrison]] have over the decades advised their clients on ways to divide and conquer environmental activists by finding common ground with business-oriented Big Green groups
Author and activist [[Jeffrey St. Clair]] of [[CounterPunch]] is one of Big Green's leading critics. In 2007 he wrote, "The Group of Ten (aka: Gang Green) now manifest all the intensity of an insurance cartel... National environmental policies are now engineered by an Axis of Acronyms: EDF, NRDC, WWF: groups without voting memberships and little responsibility to the wider environmental movement. They are the undisputed mandarins of technotalk and lobbyist logic, who gave us the ecological oxymorons of our time: 'pollution credits,' 're-created wetlands,' 'sustainable development.' In their relativistic milieu, everything can be traded off or dealt away. For them, the tag-end remains of the native ecosystems on our public lands are endlessly divisible and every loss can be recast as a hard-won victory in the advertising copy of their fundraising propaganda." [http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair02032007.html]
==Some of the Biggest Environmental Organizations==
==Articles Critical of Big Green Environmental Groups==
* Jim Donahue, [http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1990/03/donahue.html Environmental Board Games], The ''Multinational Monitor'', March 1990. * Peter Montague [http://www.ejnet.org/rachel/rehw407.htm A LETTER TO FRIENDSLetter to Friends], RACHELRachel'S ENVIRONMENT s Environment & HEALTH WEEKLY #Health Weekly'', Number 407, September 15, 1994.
* [http://www.mapcruzin.com/review_losing_ground.htm REVIEW - Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century by Mark Dowie], Booklist, 1995.
* Brian Tokar, [http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/apr97tokar.html Questioning Official Environmentalism], ''Z Magazine'', April, 1997. * Derrick Jensen, [http://www.ratical.org/ratville/PRcorrupt.html WAR ON TRUTH - The Secret Battle for the American Mind: An Interview with John Stauber], Originally appearing in ''The Sun'', March, 1999.* Bob Burton, [http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1999Q1/edf.html Chilling and Gassing with the Environmental Defense Fund], ''PR Watch'', First Quarter 1999. * Alexander Cockburn, [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20001225/cockburn Greens, Fears and Dollars], ''The Nation'', December 7, 2000. * John Borowski, [http://www.alternativesmagazine.com/23/borowski.html Say It Ain’t So, Senator Daschle - Shame on the Big Green Environmentalists], ''Alternatives'', Fall 2002.* Michael Donnelly, [http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly05242005.html The End of the Innocence...Again Behind the Green(back) Curtain], ''Counterpunch'', May 24, 2005. * Mark Dowie, [http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2005/05/19/mark_dowie/ "The Fruit of Your Coins"] , ''Grist '', May 19, 2005. (In film short, Mark Dowie plugs plan to boost funding for grassroots activism) . * Mark Dowie, [http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/dowie_support_gr_environmentalists.060416.htm MY VIEWMy View: SUPPORT GRASSSupport Grass-ROOTS ENVIRONMENTALISTSRoots Environmentalists"], ''The Chronicle of Philanthropy'', April 20, 2006.* Jeffrey St. Clair, [http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair02032007.html The Withering of the American Environmental Movement - The Thrill is Gone], ''Counterpunch'', February 3/4, 2007. * Roddy Scheer, [http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3736 The Big Green Merge], ''E Magazine'', May 21, 2007 * Michael Donnelly, [http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly01192008.html Big Green Fiddles As the World Burns - Dodging Ecocide], ''Counterpunch'', January 19/20, 2008 * Michael Donnelly, [http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly05242005.html The End of the Innocence...Again Behind the Green(back) Curtain], ''Counterpunch'', May 24, 2005. * Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, [http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/01/13/doe-reprint/ The Death of Environmentalism - Global warming politics in a post-environmental world], ''Grist'', January 13, 2005.
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