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WATCH: The Ethics of Voluntary Carbon Offsets – Professor Clive Spash

"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."

The Resolution Copper Land Grab: How Environmental NGOs Expand Green Capitalism

"Multinational mining companies, Rio Tinto in particular, in partnership with NGOs, have been networking to improve the reputation and legitimacy of global mining activities since the ‘90s."

FLASHBACK: WWF’s Eco Imperialism

WWF presently has offices in over 90 countries around the world, so to briefly illustrate the imperialistic nature of their “conservation” efforts this article simply focuses on the contentious nature of their presence in mineral rich Mongolia.