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How Science Ignores The Living World — An Interview With Vine Deloria

"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."

An Object Lesson In Spectacle [Excerpt From the Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg for Consent – Volume II]

In 1959, the revolutionary Che Guevara remarked to journalist José Pardo Llada that "newspapers are instruments of the oligarchy." Today, six decades later, the non-profit industrial complex and even "activism" itself must both be considered as instruments crafted and wielded by the 21st century oligarchs.

Trees Don’t Grow on Money – or Why You Don’t Get to Rebel Against Extinction

"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."

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."

Obama to Open Post-presidency Office in World Wildlife Fund Headquarters

Could this move also signal what could be an acceleration of the implementation of payments for ecosystems services (also referred to as the "new economy", "natural capital", the financialization of nature, The Next System, etc.) by the world's most powerful institutions and states?

Earth Economics

“The implementation of payment for ecosystem services,” Morningstar observes, “will create the most spectacular opportunities that the financial sector has ever witnessed.”

Don’t Put a Price Tag on Nature

"But make-believe markets are highly likely to fail when people are otherwise relentlessly focused on nickel-and-dime realities. The market mentality also degrades nature by attempting to turn it into a commodity. "

Survival of the Richest or Radical Living

"The choice of embracing the sacredness of all life, pursuing excellence everyday; or blindly yielding to the cleverly marketed solutions that will only benefit an elitist few; once again, polarizes our collective consciousness as human beings."

Marching for Monsanto

"Championed by the UN and transnational corporations like Monsanto, this globalized ‘new economy‘ — hyped by Social Capitalists like World Wildlife Fund and 350 — is integral to Sustaining Privatization. The usurping of civil society by these Wall Street-funded NGOs means the annihilation of civil liberties is just A Click Away."

Must Watch Bulldozing Biodiversity Lecture by Clive Spash

A guest lecture on the economics of biodiversity management and the problems of the current ecosystems services and market based policy approaches.