The phenomenon often appears in environmental debates, including pressure groups that claim to represent outdoor recreation interests but receive cash from billionaires and other elite political operatives for crude political purposes.
Now consider an environmentalist group that's received Patagonia funding, Protect Our Winters, or POW. Protect Our Winters claims it's just "Help[ing] passionate outdoor people protect the places and experiences they love." But POW also cares about the banal indoor recreation of politics, such as helping elect Democrats to Congress and shilling for the partisan Inflation Reduction Act.
The Association's ties to POW appear in its "Climate Challenge" reports, which require "All Climate Challengers" to do such things as endorse letters from groups like POW, Citizens Climate Lobby, and We Are Still In. We Are Still In is an environmentalist pressure group underwritten by left-wing billionaire Michael Bloomberg, while Citizens Climate Lobby has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Enron billionaire John Arnold, as well as funding from Arabella.
Groups like POW are so compromised politically that they never mention powerful threats to outdoor recreation from their radical environmentalist allies.
Just consider what outdoor trade groups say and the Biden Administration brags about.
Ending jet travel and sales of gasoline-or just hiking their costs-would devastate outdoor recreation, which means a lot of environmental extremist groups pose serious threats to outdoor recreation.
Jet travel is also denounced by groups like Stay Grounded and Flight Free USA. In the world these pressure groups and their donors fight for, how can an Aspen ski resort or a fishing outfitter on Montana's Blackfoot River survive?
https://capitalresearch.org/article/oral-testimony-about-dark-money-in-environmental-debates/
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