A lot of big polluters are publicly traded companies. Owning shares of US public companies means you can go to shareholder meetings, vote, and other rights.
What do all think of a non profit that runs and is funded with an endowment composed of big polluters like oil companies and using the dividends to fund climate initiatives? In the mean time, using the seat at the table to influence other shareholders to reduce emissions, which is in their long term interest anyways.
If the endowment dries up, mission accomplished. If it grows, more money to act with.
What do all think?
This actually could work, but would take too long to be as effective as we need it to be now.
But then it also entrenches certain methods that eventually become meaningfully anathema to someone in some way somewhere. And then what? Rinse and repeat in slow motion again?