The Dirty Secret Of Renewables Advocates Is That They Protect Fossil Fuel Interests, Not The Climate

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The Dirty Secret Of Renewables Advocates Is That They Protect Fossil Fuel Interests, Not The Climate
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For 50 years, anti-nuclear groups have used renewables to greenwash the killing of nuclear plants and the inevitable rise in air pollution that results.

Are climate activists aware that their renewable energy advocacy is a far more valuable form of greenwashing than any amount of oil and gas industry advertisingEverybody from Greenpeace to student activist Greta Thunberg to Green New Dealer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says we have to transition from fossil fuels to renewables in order to save the climate.

Over the last three years, the five largest publicly-traded oil and gas companies, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, BP, and Total invested ainto advertising and lobbying for renewables and other climate-related ventures.

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