The road to hell is paved with corporate profits and compromised NGOs
From The Blog
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Listen: The Green New Deal & What it Leaves Out: Reading Act V of Cory Morningstar’s Research
Wrong Kind of Green Dec 02, 2019“This is a red flag. As Morningstar explained previously, seeking net-zero emissions does not mean radically reducing the amount of carbon the U.S. pumps into the atmosphere. It means using technology and other instruments to offset or capture the same amount of carbon our society is creating.”
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The Salmon and the Weir
Wrong Kind of Green Dec 02, 2019“And instead of forging more techno fossils that signal the insanity of the Anthropocene, loose go of our ever-tightening grip on Earth processes and dismantle the unjust structures humans have built that cause so much suffering to all life.”
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The Militarisation & Marketisation of Nature: An Alternative Lens to ‘Climate-Conflict
Wrong Kind of Green Dec 02, 2019“Far from addressing climate change and conflict, the market-based approaches emerging from the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and subsequent International Conventions risk intensifying global land conflict and environmental devastation, which build on the violence and history of political forests.”
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WATCH: The Ethics of Voluntary Carbon Offsets – Professor Clive Spash
Wrong Kind of Green Nov 10, 2019“At the individual level, there is the potential for emissions trading to have undesirable ethical and psychological impacts and to crowd out voluntary actions. I conclude that the focus on such markets is creating a distraction from the need for changing human behaviour, institutions and infrastructure.”