We know that the information stream is poisoned – now Greenpeace brings to the surface some of the corporate poisoners who are pouring $millions into the think tanks, legislators, TV networks and talking heads who deny climate change. Nice interactive map of the conspiracies too.

Greenpeace has released the report “Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine” to expose the connections between these climate denial front groups and the secretive billionaires who are funding their efforts. The Koch brothers, their family members, and their employees direct a web of financing that supports conservative special interest groups and think-tanks, with a strong focus on fighting environmental regulation, opposing clean energy legislation, and easing limits on industrial pollution.

Use the interactive map to trace out the linkages between payments made and assertions published, and see how deliberate the lies are.

Why does the oil industry want to delay climate action? My answer is that possessed by greed and narrow interest the leaders of this family of industries understand that they can make billions in the remaining margins before the global populace finally turns on them and shuts them down. Taking that additional wealth they can enclave in the last remaining temperate zones of Earth, for a time.

I personally don’t see that it will happen that way at all. I believe they’ll carry life into extremis for all species including our own, and merely  generate immense guilt burdens to carry into death. I think they have no idea of the pain they will feel as their crimes sink into their hearts. Any modern psychologist would agree I suspect. As for their wealth, I think they’ll end up with all their profits sequestered by dwindling populations to fight the last battle against the encroach of desert planet earth.

I actually don’t believe they’ll be allowed to carry on this way much longer anyway. The immune response of humanity is surging into activity across the planet to combat our disease of industrial savagery, itself only recently diagnosed. Win or lose, the forces of healing are far swifter and more ruthless than the forces of deterioration I believe. We shall see.