Chapter 5 of The Great Healing, Compassion For Democracy, examines how vast amounts of corporate money have corrupted our politicians and undermined American democracy. We use a very simple litmus test to reveal an even more sinister force, one I call the ‘Cabal Behind the Curtain.’
This new study, reviewed in the Smithsonian masterfully identifies the cabal’s members and reveals its inner workings:
“There is a very well-funded, well-orchestrated climate change-denial movement, one funded by powerful people with very deep pockets. In a new and incredibly thorough study, Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle took a deep dive into the financial structure of the climate deniers, to see who is holding the purse strings.
“According to Brulle’s research, the 91 think tanks and advocacy organizations and trade associations that make up the American climate denial industry pull down just shy of a billion dollars each year, money used to lobby or sway public opinion on climate change and other issues.
“ ‘The anti-climate effort has been largely underwritten by conservative billionaires,’ says the Guardian, ‘often working through secretive funding networks. They have displaced corporations as the prime supporters of 91 think tanks, advocacy groups and industry associations which have worked to block action on climate change.’”
If the cabal continues to succeed, it will lead to an uninhabitable Earth, the end of the Anthropocene Epoch — and us.
