Description: Diving deep to bring up sometimes stinky, but always nutritious, bits.
In this essay, I describe the current global conservation movement for climate and biodiversity as fundamentally a means of concentrating more wealth, power, and land ownership through the commodification and privatization of nature. The Global Public Private Partnership’s “Nature Positive” strategy centrally depends on assigning financial value to healthy, or intact nature as ecosystem services so that it can be regulated and sold through the market mechanisms they are designing through global governance.
It would be difficult to miss the increasing stridence of the global environmental movement over the last decade, especially in the last several years. By “environmental movement,” I mean specifically the actions and advocacy of the Global Public Private Partnership (GPPP) on environmental concerns, as promulgated by the Conventions of the Parties ( COP27 , etc), the IUCN, foundations , international conservation and other NGOs, and their corporate partners .
The media inundates us on their behalf with desperate pleas for the climate, for biodiversity, for sustainable agriculture – with more and more “asks” from regular people such as to change our diets , own less, wash less , travel less , and go electric. We have also seen increasingly illogical connections drawn between the dire environmental conditions and pathogens , still births , heart disease and just plain old death .