The rush continues to commodify soil carbon or other “ecosystem services” and trade these on some kind of markets. USDA is paving the way for Wall Street and large corporations to commodify soil carbon which will do little to mitigate climate change.
Are we asking the wrong questions? These two excellent videos suggest that we are.
Divide and rule by Vandana Shiva
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Banking Nature
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See also:
Indigenous Environmental Network’s trenchant responses to so-called climate finance, climate-smart agriculture, and nature-based solutions:
https://www.ienearth.org/cop27/
Richard Norgaard’s 2009 paper, “Ecosystem services: from eye-opening metaphor to complexity blinder”
Daniela Gabor, The Wall Street Consensus
John Bellamy Foster on resistance to the financialization of nature
Wendy Brown on Cultures of Capital Enhancement:
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