Oct 13
20211
30x30 CBD Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 Displacement Ecosystem Services financialization of nature Intrinsic Exchange Group (IEG) Natural Asset Company (NAC) Natural Capital Nature-As-A-Service New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Rockefeller Foundation
"In the world currently being constructed by these and related entities, where even freedom is being re-framed not as a right but “a service,” the natural processes on which life depends are similarly being re-framed as assets, which will have owners."
Oct 06
20210
Avaaz, Social Engineering, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"Nature Based Solutions" "Net-gain Solutions" Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Finacialization of Nature Natural Capital Natural Climate Solutions New Deal for Nature Offsetting The Economist World Econmic Forum WWF
"This illustrates why protection of nature based on a price mechanism is more unstable than protection based on law." -- Frederic Hache
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."
Nov 22
20200
The Defanging of Feminism, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Unite Behind the Science" 30 x 30 Conservation Culture Listen to the Science Natural Capital New Deal for Nature Objectification Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) Religion Science Voice for the Planet Western Ideologies
"In a capitalist system, whoever supplies the money determines the technology. This means that science, as it’s applied, is never really for the good of humankind, but instead for the good of the financial elite or the military. It also means that science will be dominated by the authorities who have found institutional favor, whether they have the best evidence for their beliefs or not."
Jan 31
20200
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering
2020 Super Year Natural Capital New Deal for Nature Voice for the Planet World Economic Forum WWF
"I’ll state it simply. Nature never has been and never will be ours to own and measure, and as long as we continue do so, it is us who will pay a steep price."
Jan 03
20200
Ford Foundation, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
#NaturalClimateSolutions (IUCN) Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Conservation Industrial Complex Conservation International Debt-for-nature swaps Ecotrust Ford Foundation Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature's (GARN) Herman Daly International Union for the Conservation of Nature John Elkington Monetization of Nature Mumta Ito Natural Capital Natures-Rights.org New Economy Network Australia (NENA) People's Agreement of Cochabamba Rights of Nature Robert Costanza Spencer Beebe The Nature Conservancy World Bank
"Merely promoting Rights of Nature without at least attending to the possible threats posed by Natural Capital thinking does nothing to contest the appropriateness of measuring and managing nature into the sphere of financial interests rather than into the interests of priceless nature."
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 09
20192
Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Better Climate’ Commodification of Nature ecosystems as goods and services Extinction Rebellion Green New Deal Greta Thunberg Natural Capital New Climate Economy offsetting losses of biodiversity ‘Better Growth
"Solidarity could start with seeking some common understanding of the structure of the political and economic system. Connecting that understanding to biophysical reality also means deconstructing the growth economy not re-establishing it as ‘Green’ based on mythical free energy sources and the benevolence of billionaires."
Apr 29
20190
"Net Zero" Biodiversity Carbon Markets Extinction Rebellion IPBES Natural Capital Natural Capital Coalition Offsets Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) The Financialization of Nature
"These may sound like goals that any ethically rational person could wholeheartedly endorse, and yet, as a recent critical study by Cory Morningstar has demonstrated, what their pursuit entails does not necessarily correspond to what people might imagine."
Oct 19
20170
350.org / 1Sky, Natural Resources Defense Council, United Nations, World Resources Institute
'Rights to Pollute' CASSE Gund Institute Gus Speth Herman Daly Natural Capital Natural Capital League New Economy Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) Privatization of Nature Tellus Institute The Financialization of Nature The Next System United Nations
"After 35 years of the development of ecological economics two senior foundational figures have emerged who are utterly worthy of the title MVP."