Where did the green movement come from?

"The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."

-- The First Global Revolution, 1991, Alexander King (Club of Rome co-founder) & Bertrand Schneider.

The anti-nuke movement did, indeed, begin about 1969, but the concurrent event was not the founding of Friends of the Earth (1969), but the Club of Rome (1968). Large numbers of very rich people took it upon themselves to deindustrialize the USA and bring poverty to U.S. workers. Pulling up the ladder to riches against the poor, like countless rich people before them. The billion dollar U.S. foundations they funded have been promoting Luddism and neo-Malthusian economics since them. Some of the bigger foundations are listed below with the original sources of their funds:

Blue Moon Fund

CITGO (oil); Original endowment = $400 m

Bullitt

King Broadcasting (Seattle); assets (2010) > $104 m

Charles Stewart Mott

GM Motors; 2006 assets = $2.6 bn

Columbia

Levi Strauss

David & Lucile Packard

Hewlett-Packard (computers), endowment = $5.8 bn

Ford

Ford motors

Gordon and Betty Moore

Intel micros

Harold K. Hochschild

American Metal Co.

Joyce

lumber, building, and sawmills; AuM (2014): $0.95 bn

Lannan

Patrick Lannan, Sr., entrepreneur and financier

Marisla

Getty Oil

MacArthur (John D. & Catherine T)

banking & real estate; AuM: $6.47 bn (2014)

Nathan Cummings

General Dynamics

Pew Charitable Trusts

Sun Oil

Rockefeller

Rockefeller (oil)

ATR: A Territory Resource Foundation

Turner

media (Ted Turner)

Trust for Mutual Understanding

anonymous

Wilburforce

Gordon Letwin (one of the initial Microsoft 11), assets = Assets: $88 m

It was not an intellectual schism (among greens) that made the antinuclear power movement. It was a schism within U.S. capitalism. The ideas of the antinuclear power movement were bound to arise. There was nothing inevitable about them getting so much funding.