I've made this point in a previous discussion so will just copy and paste it here, but yeah it does get blurry.

I don't really buy the narrative about Aileen Getty being some sort of oil industry puppet master using JSO and similar to do it's bidding. She hasn't actually given that much money in the grand scheme of things and her history of environmentalism seems to come more from a place of liberal guilt about her oil money inheritance than anything. She's just your standard fail daughter who goes into art and 'radical' politics (for her family maybe).

Don't get me wrong though, I'm sure her ingrained class interests and sensibilities are why she gives to awareness raising and government lobbying groups rather than say the legal defence funds of more militant eco activists.

I'm still far more deeply suspect of a lot of the other XR leadership/funders and the spooks, technocrats, and money managers that orbit it.