Environmental Groups Face ‘Generational’ Setbacks Under Trump | As President Trump dismantles the country’s efforts to fight climate change, environmental groups are back on their heels.

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1. I don’t agree….

   ….because I’m not convinced multimillion dollar corporate nonprofit environmentalism has been an asset. Instead, I think it has been part of the neoliberal status quo under which two or three generations have forgotten how to really make democracy function.

   In the 1960s and 1970s, the groups were driven by people power with vision, but gradually they evolved into multimillion dollar nonprofits with well-paid board members and a business model that didn’t rock the boat too hard but insured there would be a constant stream of donations.

   IMO what’s happening is that individuals are being confronted with the cold reality that people power is the only way democracy really works. In my opinion, what we are witnessing is not a setback (of a broken corporate 501(c)(3) status quo) but is more wisely understood as a generational rediscovery of people power, and what it means when individuals put real skin in the game, truly rethinking how they use their free time and what they do with discretionary spending and what risks they are willing to take for the things they claim to believe in.

   Admittedly, this hopeful take is little more than a hint of sunrise on the horizon but as the old saying goes, it’s always darker before the dawn.

2. I hate how this title makes it sound like the environment only matters to “environmental groups”.

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