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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-07-24 18:22:24 +0100
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@@ -412,13 +412,14 @@ This makes sense, since the green movement has historically been heavily
dominated by large non-governmental organisations such as the RSPB, National
Audubon Society, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and WWF, to name but a few.
Typically, such NGOs don't depend on grassroots mass mobilisation, and indeed,
-often struggle to mobilise their members on the rare occasions they try to do so
-\[CITE CHRIS ROOTES\]. Their business model is one of raising funds from mass
-membership and corporate partnerships, even in more activist organisations like
-Greenpeace, which largely function as 'protest businesses' \[CITE ROOTES
-AGAIN\]. Thus, these NGOs are dominated by the Western middle classes who
-provide them with money by taking out membership subscriptions and signing off
-corporate partnerships. \[STATISTICAL EVIDENCE WOULD BE NICE\]
+often struggle to mobilise their members on the rare occasions they try to do
+so. Their business model is one of raising funds from mass membership and
+corporate partnerships, even in more activist organisations like Greenpeace,
+which largely function as 'protest businesses' [@rootes-2012]. Thus, these NGOs
+are dominated by the Western middle classes who provide them with money by
+taking out membership subscriptions and signing off corporate partnerships.
+Meanwhile, working-class concerns are often seen as less important or relevant
+to environmentalism by the dominant NGOs [@working-class-env, p. 13].
But what change is it that Western professional middle classes are capable of
bringing about? If it's not reducing your individual 'carbon footprint' – which,
@@ -476,9 +477,7 @@ catastrophic language is counter-productive in this context.
- Find quotes and page numbers in @{back-to-nature} and @{heat}
- Explore and evidence: the green movement is on the back foot
-- Evidence: environmental NGOs don't do mass mobilisation
- Find examples of 'listen to the scientists' and 'science denial' discourses
-- Evidence: environmental NGOs are dominated by Western middle classes
- Find an example: green rhetor doing some soul-searching
- Explore: magical green proposals
- Explore: PMC people feel powerless because the actions they have taken aren't very effective