Climate Disasters, Man-Made or Not, Will Be One of the Tools Used for the Land Grab

By Elze van Hamelen

The asset and land grab is one of the key battles in the Omniwar. This battle is not fought through physical violence but by waging a bureaucratic and regulatory assault that makes owning property costly, leading to disappropriation.

My guest in this interview is Kate Mason, an Australian who, at her Substack on “Deconstructing 4IR Narratives,” has demonstrated how a perfect storm of Australian regulations is laying the groundwork to move people out of their houses and off their lands. Simultaneously, public infrastructure is being privatized. What Mason documents is a playbook that trickles down from the level of UN policies into national, state, and municipal land use policies. Her research can help others recognize and combat the policy train tracks in other countries that are implementing the same playbook.

To cue up disaster capitalism plunder, the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction require nations to prepare for disasters. The assessment of disaster risk comes from magical models such as those produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Although Mason and I do not discuss weather warfare in this interview, most Solari subscribers will be well aware that covert weaponry can induce most of risks that the UN policies are modeling—including bushfires, tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, heat waves, storms, and tornadoes.