{"id":197456,"date":"2019-11-06T06:42:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T06:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197456"},"modified":"2019-11-09T06:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T06:42:49","slug":"banking-nature-how-the-financial-elite-are-commodifying-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197456","title":{"rendered":"Banking Nature: How the Financial Elite are Commodifying \u201cConservation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Off-Guardian &#8212; Nov 4, 2019<\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y1EdZeRHgbM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This film explores the truly insane &amp; disturbing world of \u2018nature commodification\u2019 in all its warped dystopian horror.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Witness men in suits tell us how much a fly is worth or how much unpaid bee-labour adds to the economy. Listen to them talk about the amazing investment opportunities in species-scarcity and show their portfolios of rare owls, turtles, butterflies etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Did you know an entire banking system is evolving that deals with something even less real than fiat-money? That buys up land on which \u2013 allegedly \u2013 endangered creatures live and then sells the \u2018credits\u2019 it gives itself for \u2018saving\u2019 this land as offsets to other businesses \u2013 so they have what amounts to a licence to pollute and destroy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">You didn\u2019t? Well it\u2019s something of a well-kept open secret. Maybe because it\u2019s not a business model that can survive close ethical or practical scrutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">However it is also a cornerstone of the \u2018Green industrial Revolution\u2019, and the drive to allow corporations free rein to \u2018save\u2019 bankable wild spaces. This indeed was one of the barely-alluded to agendas behind the recent media panic over the allegedly \u2018unprecedented\u2019 burning of the Amazon (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2019\/08\/23\/amazon-burning-well-maybe-not-so-much\/\">remember that?<\/a><\/strong><\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The idea is that big business can somehow \u2018invest\u2019 in species and habitats on the verge of extinction and thereby save them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There is so much wrong with this on so many levels that we can\u2019t develop it here, but probably the major flaw is the obvious one that this business, like any other capitalist business, requires monopoly and scarcity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If the fly featured in this documentary managed to recover and populate other regions not owned by the corporation that currently \u2018protects\u2019 it, then that corporation loses its monopoly, and its commodity (the fly) loses value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The corporation has an incentive to keep this little creature frozen forever on the verge of extinction. A bankable little living fossil, already set apart from the truly living and integrated wild.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This \u2018saving the planet\u2019 model not only incentivises species and habitat scarcity, but equally incentivises the creation of new scarcities and even the promotion of fake ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If crisis is your <em>raison d\u2019etre<\/em>, how hard are you going to try to end that crisis?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The subject of this movie feeds into the parallel issue of Green-washed climate-panic. Many of the same dangers and arguments apply. It\u2019s a major crisis of our time, threatening both increased environmental degradation and massive loss of human freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The fact so few in the alt-media are waking up to this is considerable cause for concern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For more on this theme, read Cory Morningstar\u2019s fantastic <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wrongkindofgreen.org\/2019\/01\/17\/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex\/\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/a> series, and visit <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/winteroak.org.uk\/climate-capitalists\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>WinterOak.org.uk<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2019\/11\/04\/watch-banking-nature\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the super rich are exploiting genuine concern for the environment for their own benefit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":197460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197485,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197456\/revisions\/197485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/197460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}