Fund the Fight for Objective Environmentalism
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Objective:
My goal is to inform and educate the American people about common environmental concerns and to challenge the misguided and harmful leftist Democrat monopoly on environmental activism and advocacy.
I want to offer an alternative to the current leftist-dominated environmental movement we see today, an agenda that is increasingly anti-capitalist, anti-affordable energy, and anti-prosperity while at the same time indifferent to the harmful effects of increasing crime and diminished public safety.
Background:
For over 30 years, I have dedicated a significant amount of my life working on worthy environmental causes, sometimes as a paid professional or volunteer, and at times investing my own money, resources, and labor in entrepreneurial initiatives and projects.
As a matter of principle, I have prided myself on being objective and nonpartisan while working with individuals and groups from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds and political persuasions.
Beginning in 2006, following the release of Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth,”
I have witnessed an environmental movement increasingly alarmist, propagandized, and politically partisan; moreover, I experienced an environmental movement embracing an ideological agenda counter to (opposed to) the economic and material well-being of the American people and hostile to many positive aspects of traditional American culture; an environmental movement willing to sacrifice objectivity and truth to achieve its goals, while using coercion and disciplined message control to advance a misguided and harmful agenda.
Despite being a sensationalistic polemic exaggerating the potential impact of manmade global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” after receiving a considerable amount of media attention and institutional accolades and lauded as a groundbreaking documentary film, issued in a new era of climate change alarmism that continues to this day. A form of environmental-advocacy-dogmatism intensifying in more recent years. An era of environmental alarmism used to justify a radical set of priorities that, seemingly, seeks to advance the interests of an elitist and politically maligned group of wealthy individuals, who are, stealthily, through philanthropy, providing a concentrated bulk of targeted funding to the most influential environmental organizations; groups whose advocacy efforts, appear to be at the expense of what is in the best interest of the majority of middle class and working-class America.
And so in 2015, I began developing The Environment and The Republic website and various related supporting projects, and to continue and further this work, I am asking for your support.
How the Money will be spent:
The current Environment and Republic website is an advanced beta launch prototype containing summarized descriptions and links to hundreds of articles, as well as direct links to other media sources providing thousands of additional news stories on relevant environmental topics: Current Events, Crime & Public Safety, Eco History, Editorials, and Parks & Scenic Areas.
1. Upgrade and Upscale Website Functionality and News Aggregation Capability
- Expand content aggregation capacity to allow for increased population of environment-related current events
- Enhance content curation potential in order to improve the layout and display quality of website content
2. Reformat the Website for Improved iPhone (Smartphone) and iPad (Tablet) Viewing
- Create an Alternative Format Environment and Republic website ideally suited for viewing on iPhone (smartphone) devices) and iPad (tablet) devices
- The current Environment-Republic.com website is a formatted layout best suited for viewing on laptop/desktop computer screens. Creating a modified alternative version of the primary Environment and Republic website will improve viewing of the website's content on iPhone (smartphone) and iPad (tablet) touchscreen devices
3. Expand Outreach and Promotion / Motivate / Advocate / Encourage / Provide
Guidance
- Increase outreach to the public, media, elected officials, decision-makers, and business leaders
- Promote a more objective and commonsense-focused perspective on environmental concerns as an alternative to today's leftist-dominated environmental advocacy mantra that focuses solely on climate change alarmism over more pressing environmental concerns
- Motivate and Encourage political conservatives, republicans, libertarians, independents, and others to challenge the leftist-Democrats’ environmental advocacy monopoly by setting forth a more practical set of environmental advocacy priorities
- Provide Guidance and Informational Support to individuals and groups seeking to take action to facilitate and further the above goals and objectives
4. Develop Original Source Writing Materials - Including but not limited to:
- Interrelated promotional and educational outreach materials
- Insightful, thought-provoking, and persuasive editorial/essay content
5. Acquire Subscriptions to Relevant Paywall Media Sources
- Improve current events research and monitoring capability, and content acquisition by securing increased access to media content blocked behind a paywall - including but not limited to: Wall Street Journal, New Daily News, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and other media sources as needed
Organizer
John Valenti
Organizer
New York, NY