{"id":395880,"date":"2025-08-18T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=395880"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:38:11","slug":"from-green-dreams-to-grief-counseling-the-climate-lobby-in-five-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=395880","title":{"rendered":"From Green Dreams to Grief Counseling: The Climate Lobby in Five Stages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"395886\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=395886\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AQMkVUm7cS6nSpU3W01hVrmvsXU-P8kGp-t-3H1zXbTO3seAzNAyVE5nTXTR7SnHJlv4kkU3ElQwjbvP1LCcUSwnuuVMrMlKjUhVmhViV0i3cLej1WnlEh_4D2fQcVVGtAwSa5erFdyvurm608zeB3B1_DuEA.jpeg?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AQMkVUm7cS6nSpU3W01hVrmvsXU-P8kGp-t-3H1zXbTO3seAzNAyVE5nTXTR7SnHJlv4kkU3ElQwjbvP1LCcUSwnuuVMrMlKjUhVmhViV0i3cLej1WnlEh_4D2fQcVVGtAwSa5erFdyvurm608zeB3B1_DuEA.jpeg?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AQMkVUm7cS6nSpU3W01hVrmvsXU-P8kGp-t-3H1zXbTO3seAzNAyVE5nTXTR7SnHJlv4kkU3ElQwjbvP1LCcUSwnuuVMrMlKjUhVmhViV0i3cLej1WnlEh_4D2fQcVVGtAwSa5erFdyvurm608zeB3B1_DuEA.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/08\/16\/from-green-dreams-to-grief-counseling-the-climate-lobby-in-five-stages\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/author\/jeeztheadmin\/\">Charles Rotter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0recently published a piece titled\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/16\/climate\/environmental-strategy-trump.html\">\u201cEnvironmental Groups Face \u2018Generational\u2019 Setbacks Under Trump\u201d<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ZhhRb\">,<\/a>\u00a0and the tone could not have been more funereal. For an industry of professional alarmists, one might say grief is their natural habitat. But this time the grief isn\u2019t over melting glaciers or theoretical sea-level rise a century from now. No, this grief is personal. Their taxpayer subsidy empire is crumbling. Their grip on Washington is slipping. Their \u201capex\u201d moment under Biden\u2014when they believed the Inflation Reduction Act had permanently remade the American economy in their image\u2014has dissolved like morning dew in a Texas August.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"623\" height=\"720\" data-attachment-id=\"395883\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=395883\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-319.png?fit=623%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"623,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-319.png?fit=623%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-319.png?resize=623%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Climate protesters gather at the Capitol, holding a large globe in 2019, as they respond to environmental policy changes under the Trump administration.\" class=\"wp-image-395883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-319.png?w=623&amp;ssl=1 623w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-319.png?resize=260%2C300&amp;ssl=1 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/16\/climate\/environmental-strategy-trump.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/16\/climate\/environmental-strategy-trump.html<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s almost poetic that the best way to understand the environmental lobby\u2019s current condition is through Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross\u2019s famous \u201cfive stages of grief.\u201d They are textbook cases\u2014grieving not the Earth, but their own waning power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stage One: Denial<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden years were their champagne banquet. The&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>&nbsp;describes how \u201chundreds of billions of dollars of federal investment in renewable energy, batteries and electric vehicles was beginning to flow\u201d. Coal plants were being shuttered, oil and gas drilled under suspicion, and money sluiced from Washington to every group with a clever enough slogan about saving the planet. This was their utopia, written into federal law under the banner of the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The denial set in on Election Night 2024. Surely the voters couldn\u2019t have chosen coal over climate, prosperity over precaution, reality over rhetoric. But they did. And as Trump moved to revive coal, \u201cthe dirtiest fossil fuel,\u201d while boosting oil and gas, the fantasy of permanent power began to crumble. Denial still lingers in some corners, where activists insist that Net Zero remains inevitable, just \u201cdelayed.\u201d In truth, what they thought was an unstoppable train was nothing more than a gravy train, and the conductor just hopped off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stage Two: Anger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When denial fails, anger takes the wheel. And what better weapon for anger than a blizzard of lawsuits? Earthjustice, one of the environmental lobby\u2019s most aggressive legal arms, has launched \u201c96 legal actions against the Trump administration this year, including lawsuits as well as technical comments on proposed regulatory changes\u201d. Nearly three times the volume of their first Trump-era flailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greenpeace has taken anger to an art form, but karma has a sense of humor. Sued for defaming the Dakota Access Pipeline\u2019s backers, it now faces \u201cthe prospect of nearly $670 million in damages if it loses on appeal\u201d. This is the same group that has spent decades lecturing oil companies about morality, now brought low by the simple fact that slander has consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When movements turn angry, they often turn inward too. The Sierra Club just fired its executive director, Ben Jealous, after a year of \u201ctension between Mr. Jealous and local chapters, employees and the organization\u2019s union\u201d. That\u2019s what happens when an organization bloated with donor cash discovers the faucet has been turned off\u2014it eats itself alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stage Three: Bargaining<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once rage exhausts itself, bargaining begins. Tom Steyer, billionaire climate crusader, has suddenly discovered that Americans aren\u2019t fond of economic suicide. He now insists that climate policies must mean \u201clower electric bills\u201d and \u201crelief\u201d. Translation: after decades of insisting the planet would burn if we didn\u2019t pay more, activists now plead that green schemes will actually make life cheaper\u2014if you\u2019ll just let them try one more time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Natural Resources Defense Council, meanwhile, has decided that if Washington isn\u2019t listening, it will \u201cexpand its advocacy at the state level and internationally\u201d. Vermont is being drafted into suing fossil fuel companies for \u201cclimate damage.\u201d Georgia and Ohio are suddenly \u201copportunities\u201d for solar. And if the American voter still refuses to buy the message? Well, there\u2019s always India and Africa. Bargaining often involves desperation. Here it means turning every new jurisdiction into another testing ground for failed schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stage Four: Depression<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>&nbsp;couldn\u2019t hide it: \u201cThe morale is destroyed,\u201d confessed Ramon Cruz, former president of the Sierra Club. \u201cThis is a generational loss\u201d. Greenpeace is slashing staff. Rewiring America fired nearly a third of its workforce. Even Bill Gates is pulling back his money, shutting down his D.C. lobbying shop because, as the article puts it, \u201chis philanthropic dollars would be better spent elsewhere\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When billionaires stop writing checks, when donors vanish, when directors are fired and activists laid off, depression is inevitable. You can almost picture the scene at Sierra Club headquarters: a circle of dispirited staffers clutching soy lattes, whispering about how unfair it all is. For decades, they were courted as the conscience of the nation. Now, they\u2019re struggling for relevance while fighting Exxon in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stage Five: Acceptance (Not Quite Yet)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tragedy\u2014at least from their point of view\u2014is that acceptance hasn\u2019t arrived. True acceptance would mean admitting the \u201cclimate crisis\u201d is a political construct, not a physical reality. It would mean recognizing that models are unreliable, costs are staggering, and the public simply doesn\u2019t want what they\u2019re selling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, activists grasp at straws, insisting that if they just \u201ccoordinate more deliberately\u201d, or file one more lawsuit, or expand to one more foreign country, victory is still within reach. It\u2019s the addict\u2019s delusion: one more hit of donor cash, one more round of litigation, and the glory days will return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But deep down, they know. They know that Trump\u2019s reversal of Biden\u2019s subsidies was not some random accident. It was democracy in action. Voters had seen enough of higher costs, unreliable power grids, and endless hectoring from self-anointed prophets of doom. The public made its choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so the grieving continues. Not for the planet, but for lost prestige, lost funding, and lost illusions. The&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>&nbsp;calls it \u201cgenerational setbacks.\u201d A sober observer might call it reality catching up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The real five stages of the climate lobby\u2019s grief may look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Denial that the taxpayer gravy train has derailed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anger in the form of lawsuits, both filed and lost.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bargaining with voters who prefer affordable electricity to utopian promises.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Depression as billionaires close their wallets and staff receive pink slips.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And someday, perhaps, Acceptance\u2014that there was never a \u201cclimate crisis\u201d to begin with.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until then, the movement staggers on. Lawsuits in one hand, slogans in the other, forever trying to convince a weary public that the sky is falling. The irony is rich: for once, it isn\u2019t the sky that\u2019s collapsing. It\u2019s their own house of cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0recently published a piece titled\u00a0\u201cEnvironmental Groups Face \u2018Generational\u2019 Setbacks Under Trump\u201d,\u00a0and the tone could not have been more funereal. For an industry of professional alarmists, one might say grief is their natural habitat. But this time the grief isn\u2019t over melting glaciers or theoretical sea-level rise a century from now. No, this grief is personal. Their taxpayer subsidy empire is crumbling. 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