Oiling the machinery of climate change denial, transit oppos

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Oiling the machinery of climate change denial and transit opposition

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By David Suzuki | April 7, 2015

Brothers Charles and David Koch run Koch Industries, the second-largest privately owned company in the U.S., behind Cargill. They've given close to US$70 million to climate change denial front groups, [ http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campai ... ndustries/ ] some of which they helped start, including Americans for Prosperity, founded by David Koch and a major force behind the Tea Party movement.

Through their companies, the Kochs are the largest U.S. leaseholder in the Alberta oilsands. [ http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/03/21 ... 08748.html? ] They've provided funding to Canada's pro-oil Fraser Institute and are known to fuel the Agenda 21 conspiracy theory, which claims a 1992 UN non-binding sustainable development proposal is a plot to remove property rights and other freedoms. [ http://usa.streetsblog.org/2012/07/12/p ... y-mongers/ ]

Researchers reveal they're also behind many anti-transit initiatives in the U.S., [ http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/09/25/t ... n-transit/ ] in cities and states including Nashville, Indianapolis, Boston, Virginia, Florida and Los Angeles. They spend large amounts of money on campaigns to discredit climate science and the need to reduce greenhouse gases, and they fund sympathetic politicians.

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