I don’t like market-based views either-but it’s still an interesting article.
ASW
The single biggest problem for Life on Earth is
that there are so many problems all at once.
Lance
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“Bees can’t pollinate, nor can trees store carbon, if they have all died.”
“Business as usual is simply not an option,” she says. But that is the option many
governments seem to be choosing.
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The Economist October 16, 2008
Fewer creatures great and small
Nature needs a bail-out, say those who fear that
a poorer, hotter world will bode ill for life’s
infinite variety
GREEN-MINDED folk of many shades came to Spain
this month, to talk about the need to save from
human recklessness as much as possible of
nature’s bounty of genes, habitats and species.
They brought bad tidings. Common birds are in
decline across the world. Almost one in four
species of mammals is in danger of extinction. If
current trends continue until 2050, fisheries
will be exhausted. As it is, deforestation costs
the world more each year than the current
financial crisis has cost in total, one economist
argued.