That's it exactly, "commoditized a communal resource for private gain." The workings of capitalism - privatize the profits, socialize the expenses (or in this case, low wages and imaginary "ownership" of the project). In this new colonialism, the rich North has a new need - imaginary carbon indulgences - and they assume all of the global South is theirs for the taking.
That's it exactly, "commoditized a communal resource for private gain." The workings of capitalism - privatize the profits, socialize the expenses (or in this case, low wages and imaginary "ownership" of the project). In this new colonialism, the rich North has a new need - imaginary carbon indulgences - and they assume all of the global South is theirs for the taking.
This is the true face of climate change 'mitigation'. The spin is green but the underbelly is colonialism.