Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb The Carbon Credit Coup with Mark Goodwin
May 1, 2024
Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb dive into the GREEN+ carbon market initiative in Latin America, discussing surveillance, totalitarianism, and the manipulation of debt and environmental finance. They explore connections between the Trump administration, tech giants in Argentina, and the potential hidden agendas in initiatives like digital IDs and Bitcoin adoption.
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Everything Tokenized As Tradable Assets
- The new financial system aims to tokenize everything: identities, wallets, energy, commodities, and nature into tradable assets.
- This system pairs mass surveillance with markets to make natural and human capital financially tradable.
Green Plus Masks Infrastructure As Conservation
- Green Plus recruits municipalities to sign contracts handing protected areas to create carbon credits sold to finance tech and grids.
- The program cloaks infrastructure and surveillance buildout as conservation and decarbonization.
Bitcoin Sidechains As Centralized Backdoors
- Sidechains like RSK use Bitcoin's reputation to legitimize centralized, federated systems that cut costs for financiers.
- These setups are decentralized in name but controlled by chosen validators, enabling private control over public trust.