Mar 11

2021

"Why such brusque dismissal and puerile invective from the public intellectual? Klein insists that the Reset is a desperate "lunge for organizational relevance," because the World Economic Forum is lacking in that apparently. This assertion is odd because the WEF counts among its partners Microsoft, BP, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations."

Feb 03

2020

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Pacifism as Pathology

5G AI Biodiversity De Beers Group Fourth Industrial Revolution Global Green New Deal Green New Deal Industrial Civ International Seabed Authority Nautilus Minerals Oceans Robots Speciesism World Economic Forum

History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin. It’s Underwater—and the Consequences are Unimaginable.

"We’re about to make one of the biggest transformations that humans have ever made to the surface of the planet. We’re going to strip-mine a massive habitat, and once it’s gone, it isn’t coming back."

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Dec 02

2019

newWKOGadnim

Avaaz, MoveOn.org, Sierra Club, Social Engineering

Avaaz Blended Finance Taskforce Brand New Congress Business and Sustainable Development Commission Climate Nexus Data for Progress financialization of nature Global Green New Deal Green New Deal Justice Democrats MoveOn Natural Capital Coalition Podcast Sierra Club The New Climate Economy Project The Sunrise Movement World Resources Institute

Listen: The Green New Deal & What it Leaves Out: Reading Act V of Cory Morningstar’s Research

"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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Dec 02

2019

newWKOGadnim

Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Emerging Markets Forests Fourth Industrial Revolution Global Green New Deal Green New Deal industrial tree plantations (ITPs) Land Grabs Militarism Mining Natural Climate Solutions REDD UN-REDD ‘green grabs’ ‘water grabs’

The Militarisation & Marketisation of Nature: An Alternative Lens to ‘Climate-Conflict

"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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Oct 06

2019

newWKOGadnim

350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, B Team [Managed by Purpose - the PR Arm of Avaaz], Ceres, Greenpeace, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz]

BSR CDP Ceres Climate Strikes Global Green New Deal Greta Thunberg Saving Capitalism The B Team The Climate Group The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) This Is Zero Hour WBCSD We Mean Business World Economic Forum Youth Exploitation