Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Sydney Morning Herald, climate charity donations are surging, mostly coming from the children of wealthy families.
‘It’s really hard to wait’: Young, rich, and spending heavily to fight climate change
By Michael Koziol
June 27, 2021 — 12.00amA younger generation of philanthropists is driving a surge in donations to climate change charities, with the country’s biggest environmental advocacy groups almost doubling their revenue in a year.
Analysis by Groundswell Giving and the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network found the top six environmental charities increased their revenue to $163.5 million in the 2020 financial year, from $93 million the previous year.
Most of this came from bequests and donations. For example, Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission records show donations to the World Wide Fund for Nature skyrocketed from $24 million in 2019 to $54 million last year.
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Scions of Australia’s wealthiest families are increasingly ploughing their money into climate change prevention as they gain control of, and influence over, family trusts.
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One of Australia’s most active young philanthropists is Clare Ainsworth Herschell, following in the footsteps of her father Geoff, the heir to pokies tycoon Len Ainsworth.
Ms Herschell says she had a real-life “come to Jesus” moment while watching the climate change documentary Chasing Ice, which followed nature photographer James Balog around the Arctic. “I was like, ‘oh my gosh, what have I been doing all this time?’.”
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/national/it-s-really-hard-to-wait-young-rich-and-spending-heavily-to-fight-climate-change-20210624-p583za.html
The fear campaign targeting young people is obviously getting some traction with people who are too young to have personally experienced all the failed climate predictions. But its going to be interesting to see how long charities can maintain this level of interest, without delivering any value for all those donations.
As Willis pointed out recently, achieving Biden’s 2030 emissions reduction target would require commissioning a new 2.25GW nuclear reactor every week. There is no hope of achieving anything like this drop in emissions. People who are finding it “really hard to wait” are going to have their hopes dashed.
But perhaps climate charities don’t care if they break the hearts of their most eager supporters. It doesn’t matter if the current crop of gullible young donors become disillusioned with the utter lack of progress, because the climate nonsense taught in our schools ensures a steady supply of new impressionable young people, to replace those who wise up and stop giving.
How the hell did we sit back and let this Marxist crap take over our culture so completely?
“For tyranny to prevail, the good men/women simply have to do nothing”
Paraphrasing Edmund Burke/Thomas Jefferson
She’s a match for Griff
does she own her own pub?
(That used to be the gold standard when I was single)
Does it matter? You’d be a match made in heaven. Just kidding, but Ainsworth’s machines are in all pubs.
griff,
What kind of pub did you own then?
😝
There’s nothin’ so lonesome
Morbid or drear
Than to stand at the bar
Of a pub with no beer
Yes indeed.
🙂
I wonder what the chances are of getting a Charity registered called “Climate Realism”?
Probably about the same as there being a website called skepticalscience.com
…. the same as Luddites telling people they’re progressives and the stupid ones believing it.
…. the same as neo-Stalinists telling people they’re liberals and the stupid ones believing it. Need I go on.
Your problem Rod is that you didn’t inherit the “ability to lie big” genes. The Home Page for the Climate Realism Charity starts off with:
We’re all going to die from Arctic Ice melting. Send money.
A younger generation of philanthropists is driving a surge in donations to climate change charities, with the country’s biggest environmental advocacy groups almost doubling their revenue in a year.
How can an advocacy group be described as a charity?
Fools and their money. If only I had the grifter gene, I could retire in style by fleecing these fools.
Did anyone else read the headline acronym as “Shaking My Head”?
Time to strip them of their tax exempt status and tax these “charities” at 95%.
“Ms Herschell says she had a real-life “come to Jesus” moment while watching the climate change documentary Chasing Ice”
We need a new film genre. I’ll suggest “scare-u-mentary”
What do these “climate charities” actually do?
They allow the people who run them to have very large carbon footprints. Strange that, eh?
The process of buying climate indulgences will continue until the Reformation.
<em>”Young People Are Pouring Their Money into Climate Charities” </em>
Excellent I hope they impoverish themselves, their parents and get massively into debt.
The phools deserve it!
Education through experience can be a hard taskmaster.
Maslow again, they have too much money and too much time on their hands so they fill in their days “saving the planet”
“There’s a sucker born every minute”. Truer words have never been spoken.
“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on”. Attributed to Mark Twain. Whoever said it, he hit the nail on the head.