During the last few decades of the neoliberal-imperial globalisation process, social relations have been fundamentally transformed. Neoliberalism was never a purely market-driven process but also a shaping of other social relations and institutions, especially of the state. The state, private corporations, public discourses but also many aspects of everyday life were reoriented towards economic efficiency and international competitiveness. Aspects such as (re-) distribution or social and/or international solidarity played scarcely any role. As these societal changes have occurred, the appropriation of nature has also been transformed. Dimensions of nature that were previously of little interest were now becoming (potentially) valuable resources to be assessed for their value and incorporated into the capitalist accumulation process. Neoliberalism was and is also an ecological project