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No to the Concept of 'Natural Capital': it Commodifies and Shatters the Intrinsic Value of the Natural World

Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on Friday, May 18, 2018, In : Press artricles

The UK government wants to put a price on nature – but that will destroy it
Georges Monbiot

George Monbiot

Defining Earth’s resources as ‘natural capital’ is morally wrong, intellectually vacuous, and most of all counter-productive

Never mind that the new environmental watchdog will have no teeth. Never mind that the government plans to remove protection from local wildlife sites. Never mind that its 25-year environment plan is all talk and no action. We don’t need rules any more. We have a pouch of ...

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