Nature, Le Nouvel Eldorado de la Finance
★ 7 · 2014 · Documentary
Documentary highlights the mechanisms of a nascent system that could turn out to be a global fraud. Interviewing financiers, experts and thinkers, the film confronts antagonistic points of view and multiplies concrete examples of populations and natural environments threatened by these new practices. The investigation provides a vast panorama of the interests at stake and the lobbies at work around this "new" natural capital, ultimately asking what values are really defended by those who attribute a cost to nature. A new financial crisis could indeed result from speculation and the collapse of these new markets...
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