Posted on 05/08/2002 6:49:53 AM PDT by Liberty Teeth
New Web Site, Envirotruth.org, Brings Truth to the Environmentalist Movement
WASHINGTON - PRNewswire - May 6 Today, The National Center for Public Policy Research announced the launch of http://www.envirotruth.org/, a web site dedicated to injecting badly needed balance into the debate about our environment.
"For too long, environmental groups have seized the world stage and the public's attention by distorting facts, bending the truth and even committing acts of terrorism against innocent citizens," said Amy Ridenour, President of The National Center for Public Policy Research, a non-partisan Washington, D.C. think tank. "Envirotruth.org sheds light on the environmentalist movement, offering information about their tactics, terrorist acts and fundraising machines."
Envirotruth.org presents a section chronicling numerous acts of ecoterrorism carried out by radical environmentalist groups against innocent civilians, even offering quotes from the group's leaders describing their cause as "a jihad." The site also presents novel information about the issues upon which environmentalist groups such as Greenpeace have built fundraising machines, such as the debate surrounding biotech food and global warming. It also chronicles violations of advertising practice standards by environmental organizations, many of which had ads that have been labeled as "misleading" or "unsubstantiated."
Envirotruth.org links to information about "high-powered fundraising, the litigation and the public relations machine" carried out by the environmental movement. It lists scare tactics and questionable facts that in 1999 helped environmentalist groups raise more than $3.5 billion in donations, nearly doubling their 1992 totals.
"If you want to know what the environmentalist groups like Greenpeace really think, just ask one of their founding members," said Ridenour. Envirotruth.org offers quotes from leading experts such Dr. Patrick Moore, co- founder of Greenpeace who has since left the group. Moore said that "Rather than promoting unilateral boycotts that are based on misinformation and coercion, organizations like Greenpeace should recognize the need for internationally accepted criteria."
The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation dedicated to providing free market solutions to today's public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.
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EnviroTruth.org
Website: http://www.envirotruth.org/
Christine Stewart, Canadian Environment Minister, Calgary Herald, December 14, 1998
You are probably right. Most everyone cares about their environment. Anyone would be foolish not to.
But the people who "donate" to many of these groups are the Environmental Grantmakers Association, the wealthy elite of the many foundations that gather to talk about their strategy, using the vast sums of money available to them.
Would you mind sharing that list? I am peicing together some resources for a webpage.
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