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“A project of the multilateral development banking system, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Stock Exchange recently created a new asset class that will put, not just the natural world, but the processes underpinning all life, up for sale under the guise of promoting ‘sustainability.’”
Mark Skidmore is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University where he holds the Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy. His research focuses on topics in public finance, regional economics, and the economics of natural disasters. Mark created the Lighthouse Economics website and blog to share economic research and information relevant for navigating tumultuous times. View more posts
Excellent article. Privatization of everything. Sustainability veils predation of nature by creation of new derivatives. Everything they do is ‘faked’ a facsimile or imitation of the ‘real’ with a ‘claim’ of ownership. End run on the commonplace man’s reign on earth? One solution for these maniacs.
“Men have gods in Heaven and gods on Earth, but Heaven is for gods and earth for men. Thus we write our own doom.” – The Kolbrin, Wisdom Of The Ages, The Book Of Scrolls formerly called The Book Of Books Or The Lesser Book Of The Sons Of Fire this being The Third Book Of The BronzeBook, Chapter Thirty-Three, The Scroll of Herakat.
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“Consider the ruthlessness of rulers, the greed of the rich and the willfulness of the powerful. If these dare to enslave the Earth and wreak misery upon the people, knowing they can enjoy the fruits of their oppression but a brief span of years, what would they not set out to achieve were their span of life doubled or were they immortal?
Therefore, the Great God in His wisdom has ordained the proper span of man’s life.” – The Kolbrin, Wisdom Of The Ages, The Book Of Morals and Precepts formerly called The Book Of Establishment this being The Third Book of the Great Book Of The Sons Of Fire, Chapter Four, Life.
“The Spiritbeing continued, “Enough wickedness has been wrought by your wilfulness and disobedience, for the decrees forbidding certain things were for your own benefit. Immortality was nearly within your reach, but had you achieved this you would have brought and even more grievous evil upon yourself and your inheritors, for freed from servitude of change, you and they would have been unable to progress”. – The Kolbrin, Wisdom Of The Ages, The Book Of Creation Extracted From The Great Book Of The Sons Of Fire, Chapter Five, In The Beginning.