Nature is NOT a “Solution”

The latest issue of the WRM bulletin is excellent. It dismantles the "nature based solutions" discourse that is now being used by governments and corporations alike to justify doing nothing to fight the climate crisis. Or worse, to promote landgrabbing on a scale never seen before.

You can read it here.

Here's the opening paragraph of their introduction:

We have seen the introduction of concepts that cause damage in territories and justify continued devastation of forests and violent extraction of anything from minerals to timber before. Certification schemes, carbon offsetting, net-zero deforestation supply chain promises, net-zero and carbon neutral promises are just a few of them. The latest dangerous idea goes by the name ‘Nature-based Solutions’ or ‘Natural Climate Solutions.’ It creates the illusion that ‘nature’ is a ‘solution’ to corporate destruction. And the more often we hear words that associate ideas with one another – like ‘nature’ and ‘solution’ – and the more we repeat and use these terms, the more likely that this association is considered ‘common sense.’