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The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business
Monbiot, George
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/06/06/an-answer-to-the-meaning-of-life/Date Written: 2011-06-07 Year Published: 2011 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX12669 It’s the definitive neoliberal triumph: the monetisation and marketisation of nature, its reduction to a tradeable asset. Once you have surrendered it to the realm of Pareto optimisation and Kaldor-Hicks compensation, everything is up for grabs. The well-intentioned dolts who produced the government’s assessment, have crushed the natural world into a column of figures. Now it can be swapped for money. Subject Headings |