Meet the Eco-Right, Ready to Save the Planet AND the Individual
But it’s not just global warming, it’s the notion of being in harmony with the environment, of taking care of the land we live in, of building in sustainable ways with our local environmental reality, that all of these ideas or suppositions are actually better reflected and achieved through conservative, not progressive values.
A whole new movement has emerged that struggles for a label, but, for now, is called simly the eco-right.
This is the plight of the “eco-Right,” our name for the few dozen lobbying, litigation, and activist nonprofits that identify themselves as free market or broadly right-of-center and yet are attempting to rebrand environmentalism and global warming ideology as conservative values. In the process, they are threatening to undermine both affordable energy in America and the future of
the conservative movement.
The Capital Research Center broke the news on the liberal mega-donors secretly bankrolling leading members of the eco-Right as well as the carbon taxes and other burdensome regulations they propose. In this report, we’ve compiled years of research and reporting to reveal the funders, leadership, and lobbying of the eco-Right, exposing a web of overlapping boards and shared donors—all in service to a destructive and misleading agenda.
Our aim is to equip the reader with the basic tools to understand these groups and their goals so that no one is fooled into believing that consensus-driven science and alarmism are conservative values, however they’re presented.