The ruling class "imperative" to save, rebrand & expand the capitalist system, is coming down like a sledgehammer over our collective heads. The "#reset" social engineering & behavioral change campaigns have just begun. Know your enemy. This is #classwar.
B Team: Founded by billionaire Richard Branson (Virgin) & Zeitz former CEO of Puma, co-founder of eco-luxe lodge Segera Retreat & the Zeitz Foundation in #Kenya.
Managed by PR firm Purpose co-founded by Heimans (Avaaz, "New Power", Share Verified).
Benioff: Founder, CEO of #Salesforce. B Team Leader. World Economic Forum's Board of Trustees member. Inaugural Chair of WEF's Forum Center for the #4IR. Owner of TIME magazine. Co-founder of Breakthrough Energy w/ Gates et al. (nuclear, #CCS)
Resetting the capitalist system under guise of climate mitigation & reversing biodiversity loss. The very corps/entities that have plundered the planet need you to believe that they will now save it. #sociallicense. #NewDealForNature
Okonjo-Iweala: Chair of #Gavi: The #Vaccine Alliance. Former Finance Minister for Nigeria & Former Managing Director of the #WorldBank. Serves on #BTeam#Africa Network Steering Comm., Climate Working Group & Co-Chair of B Team's Governance Working Group."
John Elkington, Co-Founder & "Chief Pollinator" at Volans. Signatory of short-lived XR Business. Faculty member of World Economic Forum, 2002-2008. Author/co-author of 19 books, the most recent titled "Green Swans: The Coming Boom in #Regenerative#Capitalism".
B Team's Christiana Figueres: Founding Partner of Global Optimism, Convenor of Mission 2020 (financed, aligned w/ We Mean Business). Former Exec. Sec. of the UNFCCC (2010-2016). Extensive bio & affiliations.
"Time Well Spent, marketed as a “movement”, operates in conjunction w/ Thrive Global. Founded by Arianna Huffington & launched on Nov. 30, 2016, Thrive Global is a #behaviouralchange media & #technology venture headquartered in New York...":
B Team has been a part of my research/writing over many years as they are co-founders of We Mean Business, & were instrumental in the development of "the first global, standard Natural Capital Protocol w/ Natural Capital Coalition.
We Mean Business: (24.8 trillion market cap): co-founded by The B Team, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), CDP, Ceres, The Climate Group, The #Prince of #Wales's Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) & the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
Here we can go in many different directions. Let's first go to We Mean Business co-founder The Climate Group. These posts are from July 2018, pre-Greta. Note hashtag.
Jan 28 2019: "The Most Inconvenient Truth: “#Capitalism is in Danger of Falling Apart":
Ingmar Rentzhog, founder, We Don't Have Time, former chair of Global Utmaning, etc. is the marketing wizard that "discovered" Thunberg (Aug 20 2018). WDHT is partner &/or aligned w/ Ikea, World Bank, Gore's Climate Reality, WEF, the Club of Rome, etc.
ClimateWeekNYC was created for The Climate Group by communications specialist Callum Grieve. #WWF identifies Grieve as a co-founder of We Mean Business. Grieve was the 3rd person to respond to Rentzhog's Aug 20 2018 first Greta tweet, tagging 9 others.
The platform, focused on "#systemic#storytelling" is led by "High-Level Climate Champions for Climate Action" – Nigel Topping & Gonzalo Muñoz (co-founder Sistema B; co-founder/CEO of #BCorp TriCiclos). Topping is former CEO of We Mean Business. #BLabs
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.⬇️