{"id":344200,"date":"2024-09-22T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T06:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=344200"},"modified":"2024-09-22T08:46:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T06:46:15","slug":"the-green-industrial-complex-the-ceo-of-wwf-is-paid-up-to-a-million-dollars-to-save-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=344200","title":{"rendered":"The Green Industrial Complex: The CEO of WWF is paid up to a million dollars to save \u201cnature\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes a lot of money to get a Green saviour out of bed\u2026<\/h3>\n\n\n
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If these green groups were really tin-rattling charities supported by Mum and Dad donors, there would be outrage that so many funds were diverted from forests and fluffy animals to lining the pockets of the staff. But apparently the largest donors to these groups don\u2019t care either, because the money keeps on flowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to E&E News<\/em> the CEO of the World Wildlife Fund, Carter Roberts, takes home a nifty $1.2 million each year in compensation. Similarly the president of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) gets close to one million each year, and the head of the Nature Conservancy gets three-quarters of a million. It takes half a million dollars to get the chief of the \u201cRainforest Alliance\u201d to turn up for work, and $415k to feed the account of the president of the Wilderness Society. The two co-directors of Greenpeace USA get about $330,000 a year each. \u201cNice work if you can get it\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Climate Depot:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet the top-paid green group bosses<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

E&E News by Politico<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heads of influential groups including the World Wildlife Fund, Environmental Defense Fund and Nature Conservancy are among the top-paid leaders in the environmental movement, according to an E&E News analysis of 29 groups\u2019 most recent tax filings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Carter Roberts, president and CEO, World Wildlife Fund<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roberts, who has led the massive international conservation group since 2005, remains one of the environmental world\u2019s top-paid leaders. His base pay in 2022 was $904,841, according to the World Wildlife Fund\u2019s tax records. Roberts\u2019 total reported compensation that year was $1,204,775.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WWF gets about $470 million USD<\/a> in revenue each year, of which \u201cgovernment grants\u201d amounted to a nice $74 million last year (did you vote for that?). The WWF is hardly going to bite the hand that feeds it, so no wonder the WWF is missing in action when Big Government policies wipe out whales or kills koalas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year WWF spent $145 million on things classed as \u201cpublic education\u201d, whatever that means. In the hands of a political activist, it might look a lot like a disguised election fund. Or in the hands of an industry player it might look like advertising, speaking of which, did you know WWF worries about climate change but actively opposes nuclear power?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their home page (shown below) looks like an advert<\/a> for the renewables industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can anyone see any wildlife worth protecting here?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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WWF appear to be trying to save the solar industry\u2026<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Purely hypothetically, if President Xi is not funneling money through to the WWF, he\u2019s missing an opportunity to sabotage the West. And if he was funding the WWF through large philanthropic trusts, who would know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WWF is deep within The Machine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To understand just how embedded the WWF is with the powers that be, consider that billionaires and bankers have been funding it for years.  Among the original founders in 1961 was Godfrey Rockefeller.  One of the largest donors has been the Moore Foundation,<\/a> set up by Intel Founder Gordon Moore. Recently Jeff Bezoz gave the WWF at least $100 million, while bankers like HSBC have pledged \u201cmultiple millions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One former President of the WWF was William K Reilly, who was also at one time director of DuPont,  ConocoPhillips, and of Royal Caribbean. He was Administrator of the US EPA from 1989 to 1993 and headed up the US delegation to Rio in 1992 while he was also President of the WWF. Get the picture?  It just goes to show how the WWF is just another arm of Big Government and Big Business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of where the $450 million in revenue end up each year, about $44 million was used just for fundraising. And according to InfluenceWatch<\/em> salary expenses were $70 million in 2020 plus another $4 million in \u201cexecutive compensation\u201d and $17 million for \u201cother employee benefits\u201d. So that\u2019s a third of the budget. It is a machine that feeds itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental non-profits are corporate conglomerates and political lobby groups masquerading as a charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If these green groups were really tin-rattling charities supported by Mum and Dad donors, there would be outrage that so many funds were diverted from forests and fluffy animals to lining the pockets of the staff. 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