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The Dasgupta Review Deconstructed: An Exposé of Biodiversity Economics

"Human health, education and population are also to be monetized and treated like man-made capital. Together three forms of capital – natural, human and produced – are taken to represent the ‘inclusive wealth’ of humanity."

Watch: Banking Nature

"In the investigative documentary Banking Nature, Sandrine Feydel and Denis Delestrac delve into the wondrous world of green banking. Investors buy up the habitats of endangered species and then sell them in the form of shares."

Greta Thunberg, PR and the “Climate Emergency”

"By writing this piece I do not mean here to deny that there is an ecological crisis, and nor that there is a climate emergency and that urgent action is needed. Rather it is to show that there is a sophisticated PR campaign behind what is happening and the agenda is that of a major faction in the global elite. This agenda will not work – indeed it will complete the destruction of nature and the eco-system."

The Age of Natural Capital, and Why It Must Be Stopped

“The financialization of nature is not about protecting the environment; it is about creating ways for the financial sector to continue to earn high profits….By pushing into new areas, promoting the creation of new commodities, and exploiting the real threat of climate change for their own ends, financial companies and actors are placing the whole world at risk.”

WATCH: What is Nature ®Inc?

The privatization and financialization of nature.

Bringing Liquidity to Life: Markets for Ecosystem Services and the New Political Economy of Extinction

"The reframing of the sixth extinction crisis within the neoliberal idiom of ‘natural capital’ and ‘ecosystem services’ reflects a history of the reprocessing of political and scientific ecological discourse in order to better accommodate it to reigning economic doctrines."