Rising Tide’s Greenwash Guerrillas paid a surprise visit to the Carbon Markets Insights conference in New York today. Their action brings new light to the growing carbon trading market, which is a huge boondoggle for the fossil fuel industry.
Isn’t it funny that the very folks who got us into this whole mess are now being given new ways to profit from it?
Scott Parkin currently works as Rainforest Action Network's Senior Campaigner on the Global Finance Campaign targeting mountaintop removal, the government agencies which allow it and the banks that fund it. Scott has worked in anti-corporate globalization, anti-war, labor and environmental movements for over a decade. Originally from Texas, Scott lives in San Francisco. Scott can be found on Twitter: @sparki1969
This is brilliant. Way to go!
Great article on Reuters too! Hats off to Rising Tide!
http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2007/10/31/greenwash-infiltrators-invade-carbon-conference/