One of the backers behind monetizing natural processes is the largest investment firm in the world, BlockRock. Earlier this year, they released a commentary that notes taxes on “externalities,” or the natural processes such as pollination and photosynthesis, may be necessary so that investors can profit from “Natural Assets.”
ASL defeated the first major attempt to monetize natural assets last year, forcing the New York Stock Exchange to withdraw its application to the Securities and Exchange Commission that would have allowed the creation of Natural Asset Companies (NACs).
The NAC proposed rule would have opened the door for investors like BlackRock and even our foreign adversaries to hold ecosystem rights to private and government owned lands enrolled in NACs. All of this would have occurred without Congressional approval or consent of the people.
NACs were the elite investors’ plan to profit from protected lands created by Biden’s 30×30 agenda. Defeat of the NACs was a major setback for the environmental agenda.
But many entities are still pushing the idea with BlackRock leading the pack.
The natural asset scam is a solution to a problem the climate crisis robber barons have created. First, they manufactured a worldwide problem – the climate crisis. Then, they offer the answer they control – putting a price tag on natural processes, elevate companies that buy into the scheme, and push government policies that create customers.
The end game is they will own everything while the people have their every breath counted and taxed.
In January 2025, BlackRock released an Investment Stewardship commentary titled “Our Approach to Engagement in Natural Capital.” They are marketing their concept to corporations and nations around the world to invest in biodiversity, geology, water, soil, and natural processes like pollination and photosynthesis.
In their commentary, they plainly state under the heading “Changes to government policy and consumer preference,” the following position:
“Although policy actions will likely continue to be uneven globally, we anticipate increased measures that encourage more efficient use of resources, such as a price or tax on the externalities from which many companies benefit, or increased prices for natural resources.”
These “externalities” are already factored into the value of the land. They are the natural processes derived from the land, such as pollination, photosynthesis, and clean air. They should never be considered a separate asset because they cannot be contained and people cannot be prevented from utilizing these. You can’t be prevented from breathing air derived from your neighbor’s property, for example.
But BlackRock thinks that it will be possible to measure what you breathe and hope to someday tax you on this “externality.”
BlackRock’s “Investment Stewardship” commentary claims agriculture producers are among the top threats to these ecosystem services by degrading soil health and causing nutrient runoff from fertilizer and pesticide use.
They promote a more efficient use of resources through government-driven scare tactics like policy changes, taxes, subsidies, and regulations.
Those seeking to own and control our land will never go away. Good reminder that we only have the rights we are willing to defend.
