"#Ecosystems are assets. We are talking about an asset mgt. problem."
No. Ecosystems are biological COMMUNITIES that exist for their own purposes. Not ours.
Depraved #WEF, #WWF et al. after decades of plunder, plan to seize what remains.
"As we navigate our way through the biggest #economic#crisis since the 2nd world war, we are still facing the existential threat of biodiversity loss & climate change."
They do not give a fuck about biodiversity. They trashed it for profits. They do not care about the climate.
What they do care about. Protecting & expanding current power structures. Protecting the ruling class to which they belong. Profit$.
Markets are not the solution to the accelerating biodiversity crisis & ecological breakdown. They are the cause.
"The Econ. Intell. Unit estimated [] the present value at risk, to a future world that might be 6°C warmer, [] at the end of the century, - 43 trillion $ would be wiped off the stock of capital..."
What they view as the "value" - "at risk", is not the planet, it is the $43 T.
Those familiar w/ the non-profit indust. complex & how it functions, won't be surprised that Steve Waygood (featured in film), Chief Invest. Officer for Aviva, began his career at #WWF-UK where he chaired its business & industry core group. #Volans#SYSTEMIQ
"ReimaginingCarbon"
Waygood was a member of both the expert & advisory groups to the UN Principles for Responsible Invest., which helped found PRI. Generation Foundation is the "advocacy initiative" funded by the profits of Generation Investment Management. (Blood/Gore)
No, it cannot. They know this, so they are now peddling the lie of "stakeholder capitalism". Rebranding & #greatreset framing as a means of retaining the social license that will allow for their continued rapacious plunder.
Who you won't see in the film.
Who you won't hear from in the film.
The very people that DO protect #biodiversity.
#WWF is complicit in the rape, torture, murder, & #displacement of #Indigenous Peoples - yet they have no qualms in exploiting Indigenous peoples for #branding.
Social license is being harvested to reset the capitalist system under guise of climate emergency & saving the planet.
#ThisWeKnow: the planet will not be saved by those who destroyed it.
No amount of images/storytelling, no matter how emotive/beautiful, can change this fact.
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Sept 29, 2022: The Biden admin. [] is troubled by the possibility of Ben Gvir, who heads the far-right Otzma Yehudit, becoming a minister in the [] Israeli Gvt... "it is like the Ku Klux Klan in the Israeli gvt... We won't be able to defend this" #Optics
Dec 15, 2022: "Joint Statement of the Government of the #USA & the Govt of #Australia on Cooperation on Natural Capital Accounting, Environmental- Economic Accounting, & Related Statistics"
Decades in devt. Three yrs to obtain social license.
Sept 19, 2019: "In addition to the rapid decarbonization of the energy, industrial & transport sectors, the emergency response must include a major investment in #naturebasedsolution."
Nature4Climate: a coalition of 20 orgs including #WWF (bears responsibility for murder, rape & torture of Indigenous peoples) & We Mean Business, co-founded by The Climate Group. Key person Callum Grieve, marketing expert, behind Greta machine from day 1. nature4climate.org/about/
"... because the #Southern part of the world has value far greater than large elements of the Northern []. And we start thinking about & putting prices on water, on trees, on #biodiversity, we find, where does that sit?"
/2: "I'm doing a lot of work out of #Asia and I say that my next door neighbor Indonesia is the left lung of the world, and obviously #Brazil is the right. And #Africa - absolutely critical."
/3: "And #Africa - absolutely critical - and we need their natural capital as a system-based world more than we need that 66 billion we've got sitting in the basement of the Bank of England."
"...set in the near future [] epidemic [] spread[s] rapidly, [] w/ a higher fatality rate than #COVID19 & disproportionately affecting children & young people."
To my knowledge, there is only a video of "highlights" that has been released to the public. Regardless, the high-level /real discussions take place behind closed doors.
Apologies for not finishing thread last night-listened until I fell asleep. When those that oppress us, that allow our air, water, soil, food, bodies, to be poisoned & commodified, claim that global #health is now their top priority - be wary. Be ready.
Al Gore (#WEF trustee) et al. are SO CONCERNED about the climate, that they in the process of turning all of #nature into a new asset class – where they will OWN nature, manage/control nature, & profit from nature (via "Natural Asset Companies").
Of course, this has nothing to do w/ Gore's Generation Investment (#hedgefund co-founded w/ David Blood from Goldman Sachs), #BlackRock, saving capitalism, or the expansion of #privatization. Rather, it's to save the planet.
The $4,000 trillion #climate wealth opportunity.
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David Blood to Mark Carney (TCFD/TNFD, #UN Special Envoy for #Climate), 2021:
"We know that #NaturalClimateSolutions are a critical part of the transition to #NetZero & we've known this for quite some time. Why is it so difficult for us in finance [] to put a value on nature?"
The realization that such an image is now collectively processed/understood as an impressive example of "#sustainability", amongst many who consider themselves ecologically aware, or even "left", is both terrifying & revealing at once.
"Per capita figures show that Indian people actually contribute relatively very little to the problem. While the average American emits 14.7 tons of CO2 a year, an Indian person emits around 1.8."
What's worse, such "solutions" are not displacing fossil fuels. A digitized economy drives expansion of hyperscale #datacenters. "Hyperscalers" such as #Amazon gloss over their massive energy consumption by securing renewable-power purchase agreements.⬇️