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How Circular is the Circular Economy?

"The circular economy – the newest magical word in the sustainable development vocabulary – promises economic growth without destruction or waste. However, the concept only focuses on a small part of total resource use and does not take into account the laws of thermodynamics."

WATCH: What is Nature ®Inc?

The privatization and financialization of nature.

The Most Valuable Players of the Natural Capital League: Part 2

"After 35 years of the development of ecological economics two senior foundational figures have emerged who are utterly worthy of the title MVP."

Avaaz: And a Billionaire Shall Lead Them [2017 Avaaz Series: Part 3]

"This series will continue to demonstrate that without doubt, there is no entity on Earth that sustains the status quo than the NPIC, the mercenaries and protectorate of global hegemony."

Destroy Here and Destroy There: The Double Exploitation of Biodiversity Offsets

"Let us not forget that the dominant economic model, which is structurally racist and patriarchal, unloads almost all of its destruction, invasion and violence on indigenous peoples and peasant families, so as to keep exploiting, producing and accumulating profits."

Beautiful Delusions [McKibben’s Divestment Tour – Brought to You by Wall Street [Part XVI of an Investigative Report]

"Today's ever-devolving Western society continues to demonstrate its preference for showmanship over science, celebrity over substance, technology over nature, liberal ideology over radical ideology, human life over all other life, white skin over non-white."

The Green Economy as a Continuation of War by Other Means

"War is complex and the green economy is advancing land acquisition and displacement, claiming to fight environmental degradation, while simultaneously advancing it."

The Age of Humanism is Ending

"In a world set on objectifying everybody and every living thing in the name of profit, the erasure of the political by capital is the real threat. The transformation of the political into business raises the risk of the elimination of the very possibility of politics....Under such conditions, the future of progressive and future-oriented mass politics of the left is very uncertain."

The Bankers at the Helm of the ‘Natural Capital’ Sector

"Let's put a spotlight on four bankers who positioned themselves in the 'natural capital' sector around the time of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Let's have a look at some of their networks."

Wreckreation Oligarchs

"Deep Ecology as an organized spiritual endeavor has become immoral bastardized horseshit, run by guilty oligarchs with spiritual rot complaining about motorized wreckreation or cattle, never calling for carrying capacities for the consumptive recreational uses their businesses and shared elite pursuits promote."