Grassroots environmentalists are increasingly calling out large, prominent activist groups for selling out to corporate donors from the renewable energy industry. Nowhere is the split between corporate-type “Big Green” groups and grassroots “Little Green” groups more apparent than in southeastern California, where Big Green activist groups are defying local environmentalists and supporting the destruction of habitat necessary for threatened desert tortoises.
Protecting Wildlife from ‘Big Green’
California environmentalist Sean G. produces the Mojave Desert Blog, which argues for action against climate change, presents arguments for reducing coal power generation, and chronicles the natural beauty of the Mojave Desert.
“I spend my time reading and writing about the place where I grew up—the Mojave Desert,” Sean G. explains on his website.
While Sean G.’s environmentalist credentials are indisputable, he refuses to march in lockstep with large, corporate environmental activist groups without first subjecting their positions to reason and logic. In the Mojave Desert that he calls home, this means fighting for endangered and threatened plant and animal species disrupted and destroyed by deep-pocket solar energy companies subsidized by state and national taxpayer money. To Read More…..
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