Environmentalism and reparations: two sides of the same coin
They are redistribution systems to move wealth from the West to the “Global South”
Last week the World’s Worst Economist, Professor Mariana Mazzucato, posted about a recent event she organised at the Vatican - as you do!
A video of the proceedings explained that Pope Francis has nominated Mazzucato to the Academy due to “her work serving humanity”.
One person who’s very excited about all this “humanity” is Mia Amor Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, who appeared in the video, alongside Mazzucato.
Do check out some of it below (I wonder if this is what being indoctrinated into Scientology feels like…)
Eagle-eyed viewers may spot that Mottley is wearing a World Economic Forum (WEF) badge (dun dun dun!).
She and Mazzucato are both part of the club, the latter being “Chair of the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health for All” - wording that sounds as serious as Mottley’s economic priorities:
Something clicked while I was listening to Mottley - which is just how much literature I’ve read about Barbados and reparations.
It first happened when I was researching a story for The Telegraph about an £825,417 taxpayer-funded study into the future of the monarchy. Its lead researcher wasn’t exactly a big fan of King Charles et al and had previously claimed the monarchy “owes its wealth and power to colonial violence and that by its very nature, sustains white inherited privilege and so institutional inequality”.
When I looked at website for the study, I noticed Barbados came up a lot:
You can even see Mottley in one section (middle picture):
In general she has made clear she would like reparations for Barbados - setting her price at around $4.9tn (£3.9tn), although she added that it would “be difficult and will take time” to sort out the logistics of paying off the debt (very considerate!).
Watching her in the video with Mazzucato, it occurred to me that the environmental agenda (which Mazzucato pushes hard on) and reparations movement are broadly the same thing. They are global redistribution systems to move wealth from the West to the “Global South”. Communism, if you like!
Brits may have noticed the question of reparations coming up a lot on the tele, and I believe this drive is much more coordinated than presented. Two (taxpayer-funded) think tanks that have lobbied hard are the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the New Economics Foundation, the latter of which funds the former.
Both of these are funded by the European Climate Foundation and Barrow Cadbury Trust (which come up A LOT when I’m researching radical left-wing institutions) and, in the case of the IPPR alone, the Gates Foundation and Octopus Energy Group.
Interestingly the CEO of Octopus is no stranger to Professor Mazzucato:
AND Octopus advertises with Global, which I’m a bit wary of these days (see the Assisted Dying adverts on the tube and a campaign to nudge youth voters).
I’m never sure how to conclude these articles as I’m still very much in the thick of my research on left-wing networks.
All I know is the more you probe into the “green blob”, the more it becomes a very “circular economy”, as the environmentalists would say.
More on the World’s Worst Economist:
Brilliant commentary once more. You go to places others fear to tread. Well done!