An investigation from the Daily Wire found that the leaders of three Louisiana-based environmental activist groups globetrot and socialize with prominent Democrats while simultaneously sounding the alarm about climate change.
While they crusade against fossil fuels, that hasn’t prevented Rise St. James President Sharon Lavigne, The Vessel Project’s Roishetta Ozane, and sisters Joy and Jo Banner of The Descendants Project from reaping the benefits of fossil fuels.
Activism has opened the door to traveling the wider world for these leaders. One was showered in gifts and treated “like royalty” during a trip to Canada, while another took an excursion to the pyramids during a trip to Egypt for a United Nations Climate conference. Another influencer posted influencer-style videos of the “really nice” private suite she booked for a similar summit.
These globetrotting ways show how “grassroots” activist organizations with ties to powerful leftist donor networks can achieve international reach. Bloomberg or one of his nonprofits has promoted or funded each of the three organizations to varying degrees, illustrating his massive influence as a climate donor.
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While flying around the world to various climate activist events, all three have consistently criticized the oil industry.
“I would like to see the end of fossil fuels,” Sharon Lavigne said in March 2023. “If that’s going to make me live a longer life, breathe clean air, drink clean water, they should shut them down.”
Ozane has made similar calls. “When will it end? No more fossil fuels. Enough is enough. We don’t need anymore,” she wrote on Instagram in March 2023.
The Descendants Project has said that the world has an “addiction to fossil fuels” and is “enslaved” to using plastic. They called for the “total end to the production of all forms of plastics.”
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