Thread by @elleprovocateur

With #Covid19 as the ultimate catalyst, the push is on to implement the financialization of nature.

The Natural Capital Coalition is made up of approx. 300 orgs/corps while working w/ thousands. Partners include #CocaCola, #Shell, #Walmart.

Those with money will own #nature.

Those w/ $ will own #nature.

The very corporations that have brought us to the precipice of #ecological #collapse - will now be appointed as the new stewards of nature. This has been dubbed (#XR Business - Elkington/Volans) as the new biosphere economy.

#NewDealForNature

Let's take a look at how #Covid19 has been successfully leveraged (both fear & distraction) in order to aid the largest transformation of the global economic system in modern history. Assigning monetary value to nature ("natural capital") will replace #GDP.

#HiddenInPlainSight

March 19 2020: "New #coronavirus pandemic".

Nov 4 2019: "World Economic Forum Founder Suggests Natural Capital Could Replace #GDP as Measure of a Countries Wealth"

naturalcapitalcoalition.org/world-economic…

#NatureForSale
#GreatReset

March 24 2020. "Emergency aid & economic #stimulus" in response to a said global pandemic - is much more palatable than another corporate #bailout - the largest corporate bailout in history.

Commodification of #nature & $$$ grab - under guise of virus, climate & #biodiversity.

March 25 2020: "societies are capable of transforming themselves more or less overnight"

Meaning: societies can/will be forced to adapt to global transformation of economic capitalist system: financialization of #nature coupled w/ #fourthindustrialrevolution #digital currency.

March 27 2020: "It's time to harness our fears"

Club of Rome (w/ We Mean Business): "Emerging From the #emergency: Harnessing the momentum"

"New Power" – "The ability to harness the connected crowd to get what you want" - Jeremy Heimans, co-founder Purpose/Avaaz, Verified (UN)

March 27 2020: "Global challenges require systemic change"

The global capitalist economic system, teetering toward #collapse, required #reboot/rescue. Now that it has been saved (for ruling class by ruling class) it must be strengthened - protected/insulated from all threats.

Tagged in aforementioned tweet: David Nabarro. #WHO’s coronavirus special envoy & #Imperial's (College) Chair of Global Health. Director of his enterprise 4SD (implementing SDGs). Advisor to #UN Sec.-Gen. #SDGs are the guise/instrument for corporate desires/ambitions.

Article highlighted by NatCap in aforementioned tweet written by Christiana Figueres & published by TIME - owned by Marc Benioff. Benioff serves as chair of WEF's Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

time.com/5808809/corona…

#GreatReset
#PublicRelations
#Marketing
#XR

March 30 2020. The marketing of NatCap is ironic. Feigned concern over biodiversity, reptiles, insects, mammals - all being decimated by the very corps that prop up this entity. What has not yet been destroyed will be commodified as "natural capital" to be traded on Wall Street.

"opportunity in the recovery from the Covid-19 crisis... a new approach to economic #growth..."

Tagged: The #WorldBank (Connect4Climate), Mike Hudema, #1 lobbyist for "clean" energy, #Greenpeace, Carbon Trust, "Lord" Stern (Carbon Capture Storage), etc.

#CarbonMarkets #CCS

April 2 2020: "convene scientists to develop policy options"

Already done. Waiting in the wings.

Listen to the #science - but only if the science supports ruling class aspirations & desires - & markets.

#NewDealForNature
#VoiceForThePlanet
#Nature4Sale

April 2 2020. Although not directly citing the virus, we should acknowledge the #1 influencer for #WEF.

"Thank you Greta"

Tagged: Tony Juniper & Ben Goldsmith, financier Founder /CEO of investment firm Menhaden, which focuses on energy.

$$ #WEF #WWF #VoiceForThePlanet $$

April 7 2020. Tagged: Chief Scientist of The Nature Conservancy.

TNC: "With the global economy worth more US$80 trillion in 2017, the several hundred billion we need to ensure a healthy planet is a relatively small price to pay."

#NatureForSale - "change agents" required

"an era of Pandemics & Fires" - leaves no option but "global collaboration". #Together as a platform to acquire social license.

Hope is futile. Only the eradication of capitalism & global industrialization can mitigate our ecological crisis.

Tagged: Jed Emerson #impactinvesting

"int. meetings & negotiations to hash out what the future will hold" - will happen quietly as #media, #NGOs et al. hammer #Covid19 further into the collective psyche.

Nature will be monetized - while a sanitized populace order masks on Amazon.

Tagged: #Business For #Nature

April 8 2020: The EU Commission raises idea of rewarding CEOs/managers w/ $$$ bonuses that reward their "climate achievements". Carbon reduction results (#netzero) & "green capital" investments (#CCS, #BECCS).

Tagged: #Business for #Nature

#NatureForSale
#TheyMeanBusiness

April 9 2020: Rhinos killed by poachers (rather than rich safari hunters) as #Covid impacts #tourism industry. Rich Western tourists can now add saviour to their Snapchat bios.

For more on this brief yet inaccurate portrayal, follow @StephenCorrySvl & @OgadaMordecai.

April 10 2020: It's always inspiring when the very corporations polluting the atmosphere feign concern over it. Of course, within this framing, capitalism is not to blame, nor are the most egregious corps to blame. Rather - it is a locked down populace that gives reprieve.

While capitalism grinds nature into capital every minute of every day, under pandemic, NatCap proclaims nature is now our sanctuary adding "people drink in as much of the outdoors as [] local rules allow".

Inadvertently evokes 2010 Rockefeller scenario:

wrongkindofgreen.org/2020/03/25/the…

Highlights Guardian article written by partner at Pollination.

May 5 2020: Pollination announced John Morton will lead US operations. Morton: architect of #Climate #Finance Partnership, Senior Fellow at the EU Climate Found. & #Atlantic Council.

#BlackLives #EmergingMarkets

April 15 2020: NatCap highlights call to "reboot & reboost our economies" - "green investment to restart growth"

Signatories include CEOs from L’Oreal, IKEA, Danone, Unilever, etc.

"By doing so, we will only be stronger #together."

All signatures:

drive.google.com/file/d/1j54QxE…

April 15 2020: NatCap highlights WEF article by Marie Quinney, formerly serving CGIAR research centre CIAT in Colombia, w/ #USAID on climate-smart agriculture (#CSA) in the tropics. Today Quinney serves the #WEF "Nature Action Agenda".

#NewDealForNature

weforum.org/projects/natur…

Most misleading understatement of the century, Mark Carney: "Value will change in the post-covid world".

Clarity: Those with money will own nature - to be bought, sold, & traded.

An absolute: "The gulf between what markets value & what people value will close."

#Nature4Sale

"British public want a radical response" - but fail to understand the response will further accelerate ecological devastation while emboldening capitalism. The financialization of nature, sold as the #NewDealForNature, is the corporate coup of the commons.

#TheyMeanBusiness

From the article highlighted by NatCap:

"He expects increased poaching by villagers for bushmeat..."

Loisaba Lodo Springs is an ultra-private luxury #safari camps serving celebrities & "royals". 1 of only 3 boutique camps located in the entire 57,000 acre Loisaba #Conservancy.

"The #pandemic might change society..." - yet another understatement.

"Budding hope" as PR spin. Few realize that #nature is not the only "capital" to be monetized. "#Human capital" & "#social capital" (#cultural capital) will also be monetized:

naturalcapitalcoalition.org/the-natural-ca…

April 16 2020. Framing. While #4IR digitalization rolls out, working class & peasantry to blame. Not #capitalism, not global industrialization.

Tagged: "Johnny Ecology": Jonathan Hughes, CEO of WCMC. Global Councillor for #IUCN, founder of the World Forum on Natural Capital.

Achim Steiner, Administrator of the UNDP, co-chair of the UN Secretary-General's Task Force on #Digital Financing of the #SDGs.

Project Syndicate, Feb 3, 2009: A Global Green New Deal:

web.archive.org/web/2015102503…

#EUGreenDeal #GreenNewDeal #Nature4Sale #4IR

2009: A Global Green New Deal

2019: A Global Green New Deal

Storytelling. Marketing. PR. Influencers. New Power. Media. NGOs. Foundations. Perseverance.

Until we fully understand (detect) the mechanisms that reinforce the capitalist system, the ruling class will always win.

Adding this in for further reading:

Feb 14, 2019: The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: The Green New Deal is the Trojan Horse for the Financialization of Nature [ACT V]

theartofannihilation.com/the-manufactur…

[Art of Annihilation articles can no longer be shared on #Facebook]

The behavioural economics of fear. Only by "unlocking these secrets" can we "perhaps avert another #pandemic".

Covid19 is the new war on terror - to achieve desired outcomes (global governance, #4IR architecture, privatization) sought by colonial states & global corporatocracy.