The simple answer is yes, because of the common interests of shareholders and executives. With biodiversity in peril from overexploitation and the continued destruction of natural environments for agriculture and housing, there…
Biodiversity
The world has got used to an annual conference discussing the climate crisis, but the sister conference tackling biodiversity loss is almost an unknown. The conference of the Convention on Biological Diversity…
Many stakeholders who profit from the ‘sustainable’ use of wild species benefit from having people believe that the sustainable use model is the only way to save the natural world. It is…
Some conservationists felt a sense of relief to hear President Macron’s “end of abundance, the end of insouciance, the end of assumptions” speech, at the French government’s first cabinet meeting after the…
This is Part III of a 3-part series. Go to: Part I, Part II The aim of the powerful today is not to restore balance with nature or to re-discover the divine in nature.…
This is Part II of a 3-part series. Go to: Part I, Part III A recent book “Theology and Climate Change” by Paul Tyson examines this question of the origins of our current guiding…
This is Part I of a 3-part series. Go to: Part II, Part III Looking at our relentless overexploitation of nature and especially of biodiversity, we have to ask the question: “How…
In 2019, the primary intergovernmental body monitoring biodiversity (IBPES) reported that 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. It also confirmed that direct exploitation for trade is the most…
We can’t maintain the illusion that a free-market system is valid, when for decades externalities and government subsidies have been the foundation for big profits and healthy returns for investors at the…
The collective countries of the European Union (EU-27) are the top ranked profiteers from the legal trade in wild species, with the USA and China ranked second and third. The European Parliament…