We need to value natural capital | Greenbiz

The environment has for too long been looked on as an externality for economic progress—a

We can’t manufacture watersheds, gene pools, topsoil, wetlands, riverine systems, pollinators, or tropospheres,

A significant part of this challenge is to make the work of the biosphere visible in the minds of people, in financial and economic transactions and in society as a whole.

How have we got into this mess? Well, that is another book. But in brief, it is our economic systems, our obsession with infinite growth and the way we perceive the world around us, with man at the top of the hierarchy and the world at his disposal. The short-termist nature of human thought limits us from seeing how our actions could lead to catast