Connecting back to the previous post about the Tohmle Statement in the IKPA, it's always inspiring to see global Indigenous communities mobilizing against the neocolonial false solutions and foregrounding this agenda in the international negotiations. Carbon markets and their ripple effects are shared extraction and exploitation faced by indigenous people around the Globe (being aware that indigenous communities are not homogeneous groups, and different individuals in the communities have different positionalities) that requires empowerment of the communities, formal land titles, appropriate FPIC, respect of local knowledge and practices, and most importantly, an end to carbon trading and REDD+.
Mary Lyons of Anishinaabe has it correct in her intervention address. These financializations of Nature are a far-right neoliberal scheme to bring all of Nature into the world economy, by putting a numerical price-value on each part of Nature, so that it can all be traded in the Capitalist, extractivist economy. This supposedly ends the perceived ills from the environment being an externality to the economy. This notion of externality deliberately twists the fact that the economy actually operates within the bounds of Nature. Trying to put a numerical value on the intrinsic value of the Commons is discussed in https://thevaluecrisis.substack.com As well, there is no mechanism which allows a certain entity to monetize then claim exclusive ownership of the portion of Nature to be traded on the Market. The deliberate act by the far-right to monetize Nature is another ploy to permanently alter traditional societal norms to their exclusive financial advantage. This must be resisted at all levels. This permanent alteration can be illustrated by the results of the previous Harper regime in Canada, which underhandedly altered Indigenous relationships to the land by introducing private-property rights, actually forcing private property rights, to sneakily abolish the Indigenous historical culture that “we can not sell the Earth our Mother.” This action was intended to, and was successful in, changing the value-landscape permanently, an indelible “legacy.” As such, the problem is now arising in which First Nations are being co-opted into resource extractive projects and pipelines by the government loaning them money to be a “stakeholder” in these projects, sneakily abandoning their sovereignty for some dividend income. Bought out, in other words. Excellent that this report also brings in geoengineering and carbon pricing, both false solutions which paper-over the need to drastically reduce emissions at source.
Connecting back to the previous post about the Tohmle Statement in the IKPA, it's always inspiring to see global Indigenous communities mobilizing against the neocolonial false solutions and foregrounding this agenda in the international negotiations. Carbon markets and their ripple effects are shared extraction and exploitation faced by indigenous people around the Globe (being aware that indigenous communities are not homogeneous groups, and different individuals in the communities have different positionalities) that requires empowerment of the communities, formal land titles, appropriate FPIC, respect of local knowledge and practices, and most importantly, an end to carbon trading and REDD+.
Mary Lyons of Anishinaabe has it correct in her intervention address. These financializations of Nature are a far-right neoliberal scheme to bring all of Nature into the world economy, by putting a numerical price-value on each part of Nature, so that it can all be traded in the Capitalist, extractivist economy. This supposedly ends the perceived ills from the environment being an externality to the economy. This notion of externality deliberately twists the fact that the economy actually operates within the bounds of Nature. Trying to put a numerical value on the intrinsic value of the Commons is discussed in https://thevaluecrisis.substack.com As well, there is no mechanism which allows a certain entity to monetize then claim exclusive ownership of the portion of Nature to be traded on the Market. The deliberate act by the far-right to monetize Nature is another ploy to permanently alter traditional societal norms to their exclusive financial advantage. This must be resisted at all levels. This permanent alteration can be illustrated by the results of the previous Harper regime in Canada, which underhandedly altered Indigenous relationships to the land by introducing private-property rights, actually forcing private property rights, to sneakily abolish the Indigenous historical culture that “we can not sell the Earth our Mother.” This action was intended to, and was successful in, changing the value-landscape permanently, an indelible “legacy.” As such, the problem is now arising in which First Nations are being co-opted into resource extractive projects and pipelines by the government loaning them money to be a “stakeholder” in these projects, sneakily abandoning their sovereignty for some dividend income. Bought out, in other words. Excellent that this report also brings in geoengineering and carbon pricing, both false solutions which paper-over the need to drastically reduce emissions at source.