Jeffrey Epstein and his vast network of elite figures routinely traded in myths that undermine climate progress. Experts say it’s not an accident

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    13 hours ago

    also funding “reduce your carbon footprint” advocacy or companies so they dont reduce thier emissions, plus funding the "eco-protestors that deface public property to get the public to turn on them as well.

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      That’s not in the article, are you making shit up to suit your political agenda?

      Especially the last one is wild - yeah, they sneakily funded the single most historically effective form of protest short of attempted murder (see Luigi bopping goombas) in order to *checks notes* reduce support for climate change activism.

      In the Netherlands, the biggest climate movement spike was when activists repeatedly blocked a highway and defaced its surface. The biggest protests in 50 years happened after a year-long campaign of vandalism, defacement of public property, and fighting police.

      I don’t know if billionaires had a hand in making the 20th century climate movement anti-nuclear pacifists, but that was literally the best values they could have had to support the fossil fuel industry. Get well-meaning scientists to submit to public pressure allowing imperialism to continue its reign of terror without competition.

      Go read “The Failure of Nonviolence” by Gelderloos.