38 minutes ago · Culture · 0 comments

The story is simple once you stop looking at the green branding and start looking at power. A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms watches land his family has worked for generations sell for ten times what it was worth only a few years ago. Not because farming suddenly became more valuable, because carbon became a speculative asset. A corporation somewhere needs a green badge, farm land becomes the badge, our agriculture disapering becomes the cost. This is not a mistake, its normal, this is the “common sense” system working as designed. #ClimateChaos under capitalism becomes another market opportunity, another asset class, another enclosure of the commons. The mechanism of the Carbon con, a corporation carries on almost exactly as before same factories, same flights, same extraction, same emissions, same growth ideology. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants trees on it, and announces to the world that it is now “carbon neutral.” If it wants more PR sparkle, it calls itself “carbon…

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