“Years ago, Maude Barlow’s book Blue Gold sounded the alarm on corporate theft of the world’s water and launched a powerful global water justice movement. Now, with Earth for Sale, Maude is calling out a new form of corporate plunder, where nature — instead of being protected — has to compete in the global market to survive. This is one of the most important books of our time, and I dearly hope we hear Maude’s call to action once again.” — Jane Fonda, actor and activist

“Elders tell us, in their own words and in their language, about the natural world; we are given instructions from Creator on how to care for it. If not, then balance is lost and we too are lost. In this powerful book, Maude Barlow has given us a strong warning about the ‘financialization of nature’ — the newest corporate assault on Mother Earth. Thankfully, she has also given us sacred instructions on how to care for the forests, soil, other species, air and water. We must all work together and listen to these words. It will take the coming together and the working together, that will help us protect and sustain the gifts of Creator.” — Jesse Cardinal, Cree/Métis, executive director, Keepers of the Water

“In Earth for Sale, Maude Barlow sounds the alarm on a new threat: the push to use free markets to solve every environmental problem. These so-called solutions include carbon, plastic and biodiversity offsets and putting a price on every aspect of nature, from whales to water to forests. Building on her prescient earlier warnings about free trade and water privatization, Barlow exposes the staggering insanity of further entrenching the very economic system that is driving ecological collapse. Earth for Sale empowers readers with the knowledge, the motivation and the solutions needed to fight back.” — Dr. David R. Boyd, former UN special rapporteur on the right to a healthy environment

“Another beautifully written masterpiece from one of the world’s leading water defenders, Maude Barlow, that should be required reading for all of us. In Earth for Sale, Barlow brilliantly dissects and shatters the illusions of corporate solutions to the twin emergencies of climate and the plunder of nature, and weaves together the successful actions and creative solutions of those on the frontlines of these crises.” — John Cavanagh, co-author of The Water Defenders and senior advisor at the Institute for Policy Studies

“Earth for Sale is a strong rebuke of corporate greed and political blindness that willfully sell the falsehood that greed and the marketization of Nature can solve the existential polycrisis that is pushing the Earth to the brink. It is hoped that Maude Barlow’s stubborn hope will wake up these neocolonial exploiters pretending to be asleep.” — Nnimmo Bassey, author of To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa

“A fearless, red-hot and very necessary book that places the raid on our ecological resources in the context of political autocracy and capitalist exploitation.” — Petra Dobner, political scientist and professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany