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Listen: How to Sell a Pretend Climate Movement: Reading Act IV of Cory Morningstar’s Series on the NGO Industrial Complex

Listen: How to Sell a Pretend Climate Movement: Reading Act IV of Cory Morningstar’s Series on the NGO Industrial Complex

"But a marketing campaign is about storytelling—and storytelling is, in large part, about the use of language. And the language used to sell us a movement is consciously connected by its salespeople to the language used to sell the movement’s solutions."

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Nature is Being Renamed ‘Natural Capital’ – But is it Really the Planet that Will Profit?

"The use of “natural capital” as a noun is becoming increasingly normalised in environmental governance. Recent natural capital initiatives include the World Forum on Natural Capital, described as “the world’s leading natural capital event”, ..."

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Ecosystem Services for Whom?

"Language is vital. The words we use to describe things and processes constrain our thinking about the world – this is the main message of research on values and frames."

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