The radical left movement today has two main branches. The two factors in common are the deep need of the wealthy to release their guilt of economic success and a comfortable lifestyle. But in other ways, the two branches are completely opposite.
The two branches of the movement are:
- Environmental Sector, is now completely devoured by the cult of climate alarmism and the need to rid the world of fossil fuels. Here wealthy and almost entirely white activists and donors form and fund NGOs to protest and lobby to demand a government crackdown on energy. cheap and efficient, and therefore cost-effective, to force low-income people and members of minorities into energy poverty all in order to (supposedly) to “save the planet.” “
- Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Equity (DIE), is currently focusing on the need for equal economic outcomes in all social and occupational positions with the exception of NBA players. In this offshoot of the movement, an overlapping group of almost entirely white and wealthy activists and donors demonstrated their superiority by demanding affirmative action programs. More positive decisions somehow never work to change economic outcomes across ethnic groups, while at the same time accusing everyone. about “systemic racism” and “white supremacy.”
Given the fundamental contradiction in the goals of the two branches of the progressive movement, it is truly remarkable how both have managed to minimize what could easily turn into major conflict. But in recent months, things have come to a boil at an organization called 350.org.
Are you familiar with 350.org? It’s a hyperactive environmental NGO founded in 2008 by professor and author Bill McKibben and 8 others described by Politico equal “A group of white people.” 350 of the name, according to the group, is the highest level of atmospheric CO2, in parts per million, that is acceptable for the planet. (The current level is higher than that.). The front page of the organization’s website states the mission:
Stop fossil fuels. Building 100% renewable energy. We support the fossil fuel industry to stop all new coal, oil and gas projects and build a clean energy future for everyone.
350.org is perhaps best known for its role in organizing the protests and demonstrations that eventually blocked the Keystone XL pipeline. The fact that the organization’s program, if approved, would deprive any hope of prosperity for millions of poor and members of minority groups is unlikely to trouble 350.org chief.
McKibben himself stepped down as CEO around 2014 and seems to be left with very few active roles at 350.org today. His successor and current CEO is a woman named May Boeve. Here is a picture of the two of them:
It’s hard to get a pair whiter than that!
The current difficulties at 350.org are detailed in a February 20 article in Politico titled “The team that brought down Keystone XL must face their own difficulties.” To recap the background: It appears that in 2019, under Boeve’s leadership, the organization embarked on a strategic program to significantly increase its size, staff, and thus cost structure. its. In May of that year, Boeve spent $800,000 on a corporate holiday in Ireland:
[A]In the wake of Killarney’s exit, May Boeve, chief executive officer and one of the founders of 350.org, announced that she had increased the organization’s annual budget to $25 million. She told the staff to dream big. She revealed plans for nearly 130 new employees to make headlines at the global climate strikes that September. . . .
The 130 new hires represented almost double the group’s number of employees at the time. According to Politico, the main purpose of employee growth is to “Improve organizational diversity and equity.” It was clear that the organization’s “diversity and equity” had up to that point been lacking, although no search volume on my part seemed to yield statistics on racial and ethnic discrimination. their pre-2019 ethnicity. According to Politico about the organization as of 2019:
It’s hard to know how diverse the staff is. 350.org’s reporting on its racial and ethnic makeup is unclear. The organization says it doesn’t have a system in place for people to identify their race or other demographic information as recently as 2019 and is only currently processing that information.
I like that excuse about not having a “system in place.” Maybe they counted them? My three-year-old grandson can count to 100.
Anyway, the result of indiscriminate hiring with no funding in line was a bloodbath of layoffs at the end of 2019. Politico interviewed a handful of 10 or more former employees about what to expect next. according to. You won’t be surprised to learn that the basis of it all is white supremacy. Here is the situation for 2019:
Even as McKibben’s role was reduced, the organization’s center of power still ran through white officials at the highest levels who established 350.org’s views, even as the lower ranks were full. people of color, according to 10 current and former employees. . . . Whites, wealthy liberals who have dominated green groups for decades, color environmentalism with a reputation as elitist.
350.org hired consultant Hannah Lownsbrough to come up with a report on what happened. As reported by Lownsbrough (via Politico):
“Lacks in the US have been shown to disproportionately affect people of color and other marginalized identities among the 350 employees; Concern has been expressed about the emergence of a ‘culture of white supremacy.’
Most recently hired “Blacks and Browns” in the organization who were not fired have subsequently left. A black woman and 350.org executive named Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is responsible for recruiting many minority group members as employees. Ms. O’Laughlin herself left her job in December 2020. She has this to say about the people she has hired:
“[I left behind] a leadership group led by women, a majority Black and brown. . . . I only hired Black and brown people on that staff, and I don’t believe anyone but one is still there. ”
First, Politico quotes Anthony Rogers-Wright of the New York Attorney General in the Public Interest in a statement that applies not only to 350.org but to many other environmental NGOs:
“My question is simple, why do we continue to work with white-led organizations that treat black people and black women in particular as bad things?”
Specifically about 350.org’s treatment of minorities, Rogers-Wright said:
“[350.org] need to be notified in advance. ”
I can’t say I was surprised at all to learn that 350.org is permeated by a “culture of white supremacy.” The simple truth of what’s going on is that the people who run and fund this place are rich, sinful, liberal whites who have somehow convinced themselves that they can reduce it. guilt by further impoverishing low-income people and members of minority groups. Of course when pushing to shove them “treat [b]lack of people like shit. ” What I can’t understand is how the DIE activists think they can make common sense with these people.
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