Friends, A new article, "Marketing the planet - The financialization of nature" has been uploaded to the Radical Ecological Democracy website. https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/marketing-the-planet-the-financializa... As pressure increases on corporations to transform their business models to address climate change, their response has been a stealth move in the shape of a project, which aims to financialize nature. The power elite recognizes that as ecological services regulating climate, and providing food, water, soil stabilization and cultural values become scarce and gradually degrade, they become more attractive to financial markets as economic assets for speculation and trade. Helena Paul discusses why this attempt at deflecting attention from the real need to change our current economic system based on perpetual growth would prove disastrous, and how “alternative” ideas and practices are contesting this nefarious design to perpetuate the neoliberal order. Please share the article with your networks and join the discussion on RED listserv or the website discussion forum. Helena Paul is copied here in case you would like to contact her directly. Best, Pallav