{"product_id":"9781770418660","title":"Earth for Sale","description":"\r\n\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eMost agree on the urgent need for climate action, yet we are often divided on how to stop the destruction of the natural world. \u003ci\u003eEarth for Sale \u003c\/i\u003eexposes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\t\t\u003cp\u003eTheir 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\t\t\u003cp\u003eRenowned activist Maude Barlow, who sounded the alarm decades ago on the corporate assault on water, argues the financialization of nature is dangerous and surprisingly few understand the implications, including many in environmental movements. With detailed examples and meticulous research, \u003ci\u003eEarth for Sale\u003c\/i\u003e unmasks this insidious new form of corporate plunder. We must not allow the movement to protect nature and biodiversity to be handed over to private interests whose driving motive is, and always has been, profit.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\t\t","brand":"Maude Barlow (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48170718789854,"sku":"9781770418660","price":26.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b893e18d-c8ff-410d-b810-e4f05022aa55.jpg?v=1777340513","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/products\/9781770418660","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}