Our natural world is facing the most serious threats she has ever known. At the forefront is the accelerating loss of biodiversity, upon which all life depends.
Worse still, this very real threat is being marketed and exploited in order to re-boot the global economy.
The so-called “The New Deal For Nature” (NDFN) is being drawn up by the world’s most powerful corporations, financial institutions, and NGOs complicit in human rights abuses.
Also at the helm of the NDFN is the World Economic Forum which entered into partnership with the United Nations on June 13, 2019.
The NDFN is due to be finalized at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) conference in Beijing in October 2020.
This is the corporate coup of the commons. It represents the monetization of all nature on a global scale.
Under the guise of environmental protection, the NDFN amounts to the privatization, commodification and objectification of nature, marketed with emotive imagery and holistic framing.
It also threatens further Indigenous displacement and genocide.
The NDFN would involve the total transformation of the global economic system for the creation of new markets, to salvage the failing global economic capitalist system that is destroying our shared futures and all life on Earth.
Mark Tercek, former CEO of The Nature Conservancy describes the intent best: “This reminds me of my Wall Street days. I mean, all the new markets, the high yield markets, this is how they all start.”
The NFDN must be stopped. We call on all those who care about nature to speak out now.
We urge them to hold public meetings, disseminate information, form local campaign groups, hold protests, and to take whatever action is necessary to halt this monstrous and unprecedented assault on our living world by the capitalist system.
Sincere thanks to Mario Sanchez Nevado for his permission to use the image above. His website can be found at http://aegis-strife.net/.
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Resources:
http://www.winteroak.org.uk/climate-capitalists
https://antipodeonline.org/2017/11/06/accumulation-by-restoration
https://avispa.org/peten-at-the-center-of-the-sustainable-developments-plans-of-the-ngos
https://avispa.org/guatemala-carbon-the-metric-of-displacement-in-peten
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/10/30/watch-banking-nature