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diff --git a/chapter1.md b/chapter1.md index cb07ef8..9a8aab8 100644 --- a/chapter1.md +++ b/chapter1.md @@ -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 |