Earth for Sale: The Fight to Stop the Last Plunder of the Planet
Maude Barlow is a global water activist and author. She is a co-founder of the Blue Planet Project. In 2008-2009, she served as Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. She is also the author of dozens of reports, as well as 21 books.
Join us for a discussion with Maude Barlow about her new book Earth For Sale, which offers an urgent warning about the financialization of nature and the quiet rise of corporate control over the planet’s resources. Most agree on the urgent need for climate action, yet we are often divided on how to stop the destruction of the natural world. Earth for Sale exposes the danger of governments giving over this responsibility to powerful private interests, namely the same energy, chemical, agribusiness, and bottled water corporations that brought us to this ecological brink. Their answer? Put a price on nature and bring it into the market. Under the inviting language of “nature-based solutions” and “ecosystem services,” this financialization and commodification of nature takes many forms: carbon trading; debt-for-nature swaps; water pollution trading; biodiversity credits; green, blue, and wildlife conservation bonds; plastics offsets; water futures; and more.
Video English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN_hd19ynUo
Video Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-lhL_jfebM