Aug 07
20210
Biodiversity economics environmental values financialisation of nature Natural Capital social costs
"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."
Oct 30
20191
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
financialisation of nature Natural Capital privatization Species Banking Speciesism The Nature Conservancy United Nations Wetlands WWF
"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."
May 07
20192
Foundations, Social Engineering
Extinction Rebellion financialisation of nature Green New Deal Greta Thunberg “clean tech”
"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."
Dec 18
20180
“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.”
Feb 28
20170
Ecosystem Services financialisation of nature Natural Capital sixth extinction TEEB The Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
"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."