Environmental organizations are large, affluent, and secretive. Rather than being underdogs, they are now the establishment.
A Greenpeace-built Noah’s Ark replica. Click for the image source on Greenpeace International’s website.
It has been a sticky few weeks for Greenpeace. The government of India has identified this activist organization as a threat to its national economic well being. According to an article in The Hindu newspaper, funds destined for the Greenpeace India Society from abroad will henceforth be “kept on hold until individual clearances are obtained from the [Home] Ministry for each transaction.”
Then there’s the embarrassing revelation that a “well-intentioned, if reckless” employee (as the New York Timesphrased it) lost $5 million of Greenpeace funds via currency speculation.
Today, the Guardian newspaper says leaked documents indicate that the finance team at Greenpeace International headquarters in Amsterdam has been “beset by personnel problems and a lack of rigorous processes…
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