rivers forests hills

rivers forests hills

August 26, 2015, 11:21 pm
Filed under: brave new world, departure lounge | Tags: forests, George Monbiot, hills, nature, rivers, The Pricing of Everything

Surely she will take her revenge.

I’m talking about the development of what could be called the Natural Capital Agenda: the pricing, valuation, monetisation, financialisation of nature in the name of saving it.

Sorry, did I say nature? We don’t call it that any more. It is now called natural capital. Ecological processes are called ecosystem services because, of course, they exist only to serve us. Hills, forests, rivers: these are terribly out-dated terms. They are now called green infrastructure. Biodiversity and habitats? Not at all à la mode my dear. We now call them asset classes in an ecosystems market. I am not making any of this up. These are the names we now give to the natural world.

The Pricing of Everything, George Monbiot

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