Bill McKibben�s roadshow

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That's really all it is -- a roadshow. Get the rubes worked into a lather so they open their pocketbooks and also try to gather other useful idiots into the fold. From Grist:
Cue the math: McKibben�s roadshow takes aim at Big Oil
It was game time. The Saturday night crowd on the Vermont campus was festive, boisterous, pumped. People cheered and whooped when told that one of their heroes, climate activist Tim DeChristopher � serving a two-year federal sentence for his civil disobedience opposing new oil and gas drilling in Utah � would soon be back on the field.

When the man on the stage, 350.org�s Bill McKibben, said it was time to march not just on Washington but on the headquarters of fossil fuel companies � �it�s time to march on Dallas� � and asked those to stand who�d be willing to join in the fight, seemingly every person filling the University of Vermont�s cavernous Ira Allen Chapel, some 800 souls, rose to their feet.

McKibben and 350, the folks who brought us the Keystone XL pipeline protests, are now calling for a nationwide divestment campaign aimed at fossil fuel companies� bottom line. Beginning with student-led campaigns on college campuses, modeled on the anti-apartheid campaigns of the 1980s, they�ll pressure institutions to withdraw all investments from big oil and coal and gas. Their larger goal is to ignite a morally charged movement to strip the industry of its legitimacy.
A couple of inconvenient truths: From the Discover the Networks entry for McKibben:
In addition to his duties with 350.org, McKibben is also a board member of Grist magazine.
No wonder the loving tongue bath. From the Discover the Networks entry for 350.org:
350.org is the international reinvention of Mckibben�s 2007 "Step-It-Up" campaign, an initiative aimed at generating support for environmental regulation in the United States. Both 350.org and Step-It-Up cite the Sustainable Markets Foundation (SMF) -- a grantee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Family Fund -- as their fiscal sponsor.
Yeah -- those Rockefeller's -- Standard Oil &c. -- the same ones that were working behind the scenes to derail the Keystone XL oil pipeline. From the Discover the Networks entry for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund:
RBF Pushes to Derail the Keystone Pipeline Project:
In February 2012, the Canadian news channel Sun News uncovered a 2008 PowerPoint presentation by RBF that laid bare its strategy of funding a host of environmental groups to thwart the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline -- a project for which President Obama had recently denied a permit -- as well as other development initiatives that the Fund considered to be �globally significant threat[s].� According to investigative reporter Lachlan Markay, the 2008 presentation �describes the allocation of $7 million to environmental non-profits for tactics that include the use of the legislative and legal systems to delay or derail energy production in the United States and Canada, and to �raise the costs� of energy in both nations.� The Daily Caller reported that RBF program officer Michael Northrop had also pushed for thwarting the Keystone project, as had the representatives of several environmental groups, among them Corporate Ethics International, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Pembina Institute (a Canadian activist group). Together, these groups would emerge at the forefront of an alarmist scare-campaign that ultimately led to Keystone�s cancellation.
Time to wake up and smell the cappuccino. Your little 'green revolution' is funded by THE MAN and most of these people are sociopaths and really do not give a shit about you at all, you are just a useful idiot available to advance their power.

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