Greenwashing and corporate environmental schemes like those in Greece after forest fires demonstrate that market-based green growth is being co-opted for profit extraction—large corporations offered locals 20 euros per day while stripping rights and planning to replant with genetically modified trees to harvest biomass for green energy, converting forests into fifth domes controlled by Monsanto and Bayer

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Speaker

Yanis Varoufakis

Evidence Quote

large corporations came and took over...offer contracts...for 20 euros a day...replanting the forests using genetically modified trees...conversion...into fifth domes of monsanto bayer [48:57]

Source

Can we Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian TettIntelligence Squared
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:33:04 PM

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