As world leaders, celebrities, business moguls and activists alike descended on Scotland for the COP26 climate summit, behind the scenes powerful financial groups were and are attempting to rewrite the rules of international trade and to privatize nature under the guise of sustainability.
While there has been a great deal of finger pointing, the enormous and tangible changes necessary to steer the planet away from devastation are yet to appear. The world is still on course to warm 2.4°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, according to a report from Climate Action Tracker. Anything above 2°C is generally considered to be catastrophic and could lead to societal collapse across the globe.
Comment: The interviewer/author would do well to bone up on what is actually occurring with the climate and why. Groups like the "Climate Action Tracker" are likely paid by the very same groups as the ones being discussed in the interview - to promote the idea of anthropomorphic global warming, and thereby profit immensely by it.
While high politics has understandably made the headlines, a cartel of international bankers is attempting to use the crisis to rewrite international capitalism for their own benefit.
Our guest today, Whitney Webb, has been monitoring these developments carefully. In an article published earlier this month, she wrote:
Webb is a writer, researcher and journalist who, between 2017 and 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for MintPress News. She currently writes at The Last American Vagabond and Unlimited Hangout. Today, she also discussed a recent article she wrote entitled "Wall Street's Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class." Under the guise of promoting sustainability, the global financial elite are attempting to force through more privatizations of the natural world, to the point where nature itself — the system that sustains human life — will have a value assigned to it (and will therefore be able to be bought and sold).The most powerful private financial interests in the world, under the cover of COP26, have developed a plan to transform the global financial system by fusing with institutions like the World Bank and using them to further erode national sovereignty in the developing world."
Describing this as "a new way to loot," Webb outlines how businesses could attempt to extract rents from us for the water we drink and air we breathe; a very visceral form of late-stage capitalism.
Join us today for a free-flowing conversation on these important and worrying topics.
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Geology has taught me a humble lesson, it that we, being mankind are no more than observers of a much BIGGER picture and it's this picture that the Elite do not understand, with their visions that can at best be described as delusional.
Yes they have money and yes they mould the complex web of the finance industry that directly effects the way we conduct commerce both on an industrial and domestic scale.
They like to play God, influencing the markets and setting the themes of consumables but they do NOT control Earth's atmosphere.
They negate this by spinning a complex web of lies to establish a basis on which to promote new habits that they underpin with new guidelines and laws.
The article is A typical of a piece written by a journalist, full of drama, sensationalising the most humdrum of detail why? Because that their business and that brings in their money.
Being human is to be humble, NOT to the Elites but to the planet you live on.