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The Best Lecture You Will Ever Watch on “Conservation”

"That hot afternoon in Amboseli; I experienced my road to Damascus. I realized that I was part of a system that had no respect for the very bedrock on which it stood. I was a qualified black face put in place to smooth over fifty years of exploitation in two and to create a pleasant backdrop that would allow for the renewal of this insidious arrangement."

Commentary: Greenwash! Now in New Improved Formula [Economic Valuation & Payment for Environmental Services]

"What about ecological economist Herman Daly who advocates Natural Capital and tradable permits markets, another financial instrument of exploitation? One answer is that all the aforementioned are from the USA and all apparently support the existing corporate model of market capitalism, including prices as efficient means of resource allocation."

Fundación Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA Part VIII [Final Segment]

"Cultural imperialism can take various forms, so long as it reinforces cultural hegemony. Ecotourism easily fills the role of an opaque vellum that attempts to cover cultural imperialism."

NPIC: The Advocacy of the Neoliberalisation of Nature

"Most recently international support has been given for an experimental accountancy approach which shifts uneasily from physical measurement into monetary valuation, where apparently all the world's assets (whether human, natural or social) are to be conceptualised as capital to be made commensurable and traded-off one for the other as necessary... In the world of the mainstream economists and accountants, everything has a price and nothing is sacrosanct or inviolable."

The Four Degrees [Book Review: Don’t Even Think about It & This Changes Everything]

‘This is not what you might want to hear,’ he says, but ‘no amount of psychological awareness will overcome people’s reluctance to lower their standard of living. So that’s my bottom line: there is not much hope. I’m thoroughly pessimistic. I’m sorry.’

FLASHBACK: How Nonprofit Careerism Derailed the “Revolution”

"I have a background in successful grassroots environmentalism and have butted heads more than once with the ineffective Big Greens and their funders. I learned early on that protecting grant portfolios and career tracks are far more important to these folks than protecting ecosystems. Once a staffer from Pew told me, "We fund reform, not revolution." From my perspective, they fund neither."

What’s the Fallout When Green Groups “Partner” with Arms Makers? | Conservation International & Nature Conservancy

C.I. has just cranked up its P.R. machine in service of a new partnership with Northrop, “a unique and innovative professional development program for public middle and high school science teachers.” In a nutshell: The Northrop Grumman Foundation will pay for 16 teachers from four U.S. public school systems to visit CI’s Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network’s Volcan Barva site inside La Selva Biological Station and Braulio Carrillo National Park in Costa Rica. ...

How Environmental Groups Gone Bad Greenwash Logging Earth’s Last Primary Old Forests

"Primary forest logging is a crime against Earth, the human family and all life - and those doing the logging, profiting and greenwashing the ecocide are dangerous criminals - who must be stopped and brought to justice. There is a zero chance of protecting and ending first time industrial logging of primary rainforests when the NGO Old Forest Sell-Outs say it is sustainable, even desirable, and continue to greenwash FSC old growth timber markets – now to be expanded with potential REDD funding – providing crucial political cover and PR for forest ecocide through their presence in the organizations."

An All Time Environmental Low? Objectifying Women | Nature Conservancy Partners with Sports Illustrated

"The corporate greenie Nature Conservancy takes greenwash to an all-time low. Quite unprecedented even for an "enviro" outfit that partnered with Dow Chemical." - Tin Alvarez, Ecological Activist, EcoJustice Pilipinas

Agribusiness: The Corporations that Control Conservation [WWF, Conservation International, Nature Conservancy]

"The ambition of market transformation is on a grand scale. There are schemes for palm oil (theRoundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil; RSPO), soybeans (the Round Table on Responsible Soy; RTRS), biofuels (the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels), Sugar (Bonsucro) and also for cotton, shrimp, cocoa and farmed salmon. These are markets each worth many billions of dollars annually and the intention is for these new “Responsible” and Sustainable” certified products to dominate them."