"This time we go deep into speculating about the more nefarious side of the global climate change narrative, including the obsession with the fertility of African women, the prospect of protected areas being refuges for elites, the establishment of decentralized colonies headed by colonizing NGOs, and conservation being a smoke screen for extraction and industry."
"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
"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."
Sep 26
20191
Carbon Markets | REDD, Celebrity [Capitalism | Humanitarianism | Neoliberalism], Conservation International, Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
![The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: Natural Climate Manipulations [Volume II, Act VI]](https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Lloyd-greta-film-494x200.png)
Here, Greta Thunberg becomes the official face for, and of, corporate capture. The rebranding of REDD (the UN "reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation" market mechanism), and the coming New Deal for Nature – under the auspices and brand of "natural climate solutions".
Jan 06
20180
Conservation International, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"Sadly, over the last two decades, in the midst of our ongoing ecological and associated geo-political crises, a range of environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs), rather than opposing such schemes, have formed alliances with some of the worst corporate polluters and resource extractors in the world and now actually promote them."
35 years later we can share with you the 8 MVPs who have made the biggest contribution to the final capture of nature to under-write the "new economy", an achievement of unprecedented scope under neoliberalism.
"Conservationists are turning a blind eye to their own past and to the working of neoliberal capitalism, showing a remarkable willingness to entertain future risks to biodiversity from the outworking of neoliberalism."
Jan 26
20171
350.org / 1Sky, Carbon Markets | REDD, Conservation International, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nature Conservancy, United Nations, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"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."