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Before Collapse, Credit Suisse Quietly Conquered an Obscure Debt Market – Debt-for-nature Swaps

"Analysts expect the global debt-for-nature swaps market to eventually exceed $800 billion."

The Unannounced Death of the Green New Deal: Part 2 – An Object of Projection

"Prevarication is the process whereby lies are told and truths are omitted. The vast majority of voices speaking for or about the Green New Deal have either a narrative or a funding stream to protect, sometimes it’s both."

The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: Natural Climate Manipulations [Volume II, Act VI]

Here, Greta Thunberg becomes the official face for, and of, corporate capture. The rebranding of REDD (the UN "reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation" market mechanism), and the coming New Deal for Nature – under the auspices and brand of "natural climate solutions".

The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – A Decade of Social Manipulation for the Corporate Capture of Nature [ACT VI – Crescendo]

"We have reached the Brave New Moment where there is no longer a distinction between our "movements" and the corporate forces that have been created to further our oppression and servitude – all in compliance to economic growth and capitalism for the worlds ruling class. All of this to be achieved on the backs of the most vulnerable – our youth."

The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: The Green New Deal is the Trojan Horse for the Financialization of Nature [ACT V]

The implementation of payments for ecosystem services (the financialization and privatization of nature, global in scale) is "expected to be adopted during the fifteenth meeting in Beijing in 2020."

Excerpt from The Big Conservation Lie

"In this Samburu woman, I saw the embodiment of a community praised for its traditional conservation ethics that spared for the world vast populations of diverse wildlife, a community, however, shunned by the world, even as acres of paper and decades of airtime are expended by many a conservationist and organization to discuss their welfare. Upon this revelation, I refused to play along, and I made it my career to expose the rot."

Environmentalism and Democracy in the Age of Nationalism & Corporate Capitalism

"Sadly, over the last two decades, in the midst of our ongoing ecological and associated geo-political crises, a range of environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs), rather than opposing such schemes, have formed alliances with some of the worst corporate polluters and resource extractors in the world and now actually promote them."

Reclaim Conservation: Activists & Communities Vs. Mainstream Conservation Myths

"These large NGOs cannot challenge these overarching systems of oppression because they have become part of them."

The Best Lecture You Will Ever Watch on “Conservation”

"That hot afternoon in Amboseli; I experienced my road to Damascus. I realized that I was part of a system that had no respect for the very bedrock on which it stood. I was a qualified black face put in place to smooth over fifty years of exploitation in two and to create a pleasant backdrop that would allow for the renewal of this insidious arrangement."

Conservation’s Friends in High Places: Neoliberalism, Networks, and the Transnational Conservation Elite

"The roles of NGOs, corporations, and the state are increasingly indistinguishable. Market mechanisms and logics are becoming seen as the only way to do effective conservation. In describing the elite and its links and connections, the article aims to inform and guide further research into conservation politics and its neoliberalization."