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S8 Ep6 | Old-School Greenwashing

Drilled

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The Importance of Ecosystem Services in Guyana

An Iwakrama Dean Goben is still hopeful that selling ecosystem services both to oil companies and to other international buyers is a potential path out of poverty for Guyana. He sees no problem with selling those services to Exxon or its partners to offset the emissions they're generating by drilling for oil offshore. For all of his faith in Guyana's valuable ecosystem services and his acceptance of the oil industry as a sort of necessary evil Goben also realizes that a catastrophic oil spill would ruin all of it.

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