The author strikes at the heart of capitalist logic and world view by deconstructing their conceptualization of nature as capital. He argues that...
by relegating our environment to mere natural capital, the next step is to convert value into price and then sell chunks of nature on the market. All manner of financialisation strategies have emerged to securitise ‘environmental services’, most obviously in carbon markets which continue failing miserably to deliver investor funds to slow climate change.The author warns on the eve of the June 20-22 of a key United Nations Summit due to take place in Rio De Janeiro that efforts to promote green capitalism will be advanced once again; and that, if not stopped, will result in attacks on the defenseless poor, their access to water, evictions from their lands, deforestation, and destruction of habitat.