This is James Corbett of Corbett Report.com and I come here today with a message for you.

You the environmentalists, you the activists, you the campaigners.

You who have watched with growing concern the ways in which the world around us

has been ravaged in the pursuit of the Almighty Dollar. You who are concerned with the

state of the planet that we are leaving for our children

and our grandchildren and those generations yet unborn.

This is not a message of divisiveness but cooperation.

This is a message of hope and empowerment, but it requires us to look at a hard and uncomfortable truth. Your movement has been usurped by the very same financial interests you thought you were fighting against.

You have suspected as much for yours.

You watched at first with hope and excitement as your movement, your cause, your message

began to spread, as it was taken up by the media and given attention, As conferences were organized and as the ideas

you had struggled so long and hard to be heard were talked about nationally, then

internationally.

You watched with growing unease as the message was simplified.

First it became a slogan, then it became a brand. Soon it was nothing more than a label, and it became attached to products.

The ideas you had once fought for were now being sold back to you, for profit.

You watched with growing unease as the message became parroted, not argued,

worn like a fashion rather than something that came from the conviction of understanding.

You disagreed when the slogans and then the science were dumbed down.

When carbon dioxide became the focus and CO2 was taken up as a political cause.

Soon it was the only cause.

You knew that Al Gore was not a scientist, that his evidence was factually incorrect, that the movement was being taken over by a cause that was not your own, one that relied on beliefs you did not share, to propose a solution you did not want.

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