Patagonia is Accelerating the End of Democracy

from the New York Times

Note: a followup to this story has been published here.

You’ve all heard it.

• Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is “giving away” his company to a pair of trusts that will direct all the company’s future profits to climate change.
• Chouinard is characterizing himself as the “reluctant billionaire” supposedly turning capitalism on its…