Thread by @stepscentre

Linking land, climate and conservation, offsetting schemes "offer a means – as if by magic – to “neutralize” multiple dimensions of harm across different real-world contexts and ecologies, and across vast spatial and social distances" antipodefoundation.org/2017/11/06/acc…

"...the emerging paradigm of large-scale land restoration, premised on the instrumentalisation of “neutrality” and the logic of offsetting points to a new dynamic in conservation finance."

"It reflects a fundamental shift from protection and conservation of ecosystems to an “economy of repair”, feeding a new regime of accumulation by restoration."

""Rather than addressing the drivers of economic and ecological crises, accumulation by restoration further ingrains the dominant “exploit-deplete-mitigate” green growth paradigm..."

"...facilitating socially and ecologically destructive development through a spectacular high-stakes “shell game” involving the spatial, temporal, and social displacement of both destruction and culpability."

"Accumulation by restoration creates a demand for degradation."

antipodefoundation.org/2017/11/06/acc…

#land #degradation #climate