Jan 30
20200
Celebrity [Capitalism | Humanitarianism | Neoliberalism], Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering
"agnotology" Ecological Economics Ecosystem Services Fridays for Future neoliberalism Robert Costanza “sustainable development”
"It is difficult for those who are driven by the idea of "changing the world" to believe that the "spontaneity" of such protests is, in reality, the staging of a script written by others, a product ready to be put on the market of ideas."
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."
Jan 20
20160
Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Social Engineering
Anthropocentricity Nature Conservancy Neoliberalisation New Economy Peter Kareiva Robert Costanza The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) The Next System
"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."