01 · The Library — The Material World
The Wolf Has Two Heads
The extractive industry and the conservation industry increasingly share a head office, a vocabulary, and a set of consultants.
A nature-based carbon project and an open-pit mine can now be sold to the same investor, in the same slide deck, by the same advisory firm. This is not hypocrisy. It is a market working exactly as designed.
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