Environment & Energy

The WWF can be disappointingly all over the place. A while back I got an appeal from them with some sort of “entrepreneurship for women” thing and I firmly stuck with routine stewardship of the planet over more of that stuff.

I am always wary of what they could be shilling. Ecotourism for instance is a polluting and damaging industry.

And I get such unwanted stuff from them. I am not donating for a fucking plush toy or keychain dammit. If I wanted a damn plush toy, I’d go buy a damn plush toy.

That is so not getting the point about what is damaging the planet. Just use all the money for conservation instead of sending me tacky stuff. I guess it’s an advertisement in a way. But I am not sure it even works.

My impression is that the WWF is one of those groups that has a bad history wrt the limits to growth. And stories like these confirm that.

And yet I donate to them every month and it would be awkward to stop now. But stuff like this makes me distrust some of their instincts. Green growth is an oxymoron for the most part.

Whatever happened to sustainability? That was a saner framing.