Repeated attempts to value nature with currency evidence how little we know about the former and how ill-suited the latter is for measuring anything but our ignorance. By the system of rules we’ve created for setting market prices we’ve quite possibly labeled a march into collective impoverishment “accumulation of wealth.” When all “externalities” are accounted, have we improved or degraded the human condition? Some consider the answer to this question obvious. I think it worth asking, at least to the extent that we make an honest effort to catalog (even if we stop short of attempting to precisely value) our impacts.
David Adam on how to convince the cynics of the value of our countryside | Society | The Guardian
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