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Chargement... Natural Capital: Valuing the Planetpar Dieter Helm
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Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free. Renewables--like species--keep on coming, provided we do not drive them towards extinction. Non-renewables--like oil and gas--can only be used once. Together, they are the foundation that ensures our survival and well-being, and the basis of all economic activity. In the face of the global, local, and national destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems, economist Dieter Helm here offers a crucial set of strategies for establishing natural capital policy that is balanced, economically sustainable, and politically viable. Helm shows why the commonly held view that environmental protection poses obstacles to economic progress is false, and he explains why the environment must be at the very core of economic planning. He presents the first real attempt to calibrate, measure, and value natural capital from an economic perspective and goes on to outline a stable new framework for sustainable growth. Bristling with ideas of immediate global relevance, Helm's book shifts the parameters of current environmental debate. As inspiring as his trailblazing "The Carbon Crunch", this volume will be essential reading for anyone concerned with reversing the headlong destruction of our environment. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Dieter Helm wrote this book in 2015 (published 2016) and he is of the opinion that it will be some significant time before the effects of climate change would be felt. Now, with large areas of the world burning, we know differently.
It is interesting to see just how things have advanced in such a short space of time: Helm communicates from a time when climate concern was left to the wacky people on the verges of society; a time when business as usual looked to be the sensible option to so many.
The things that he is very good at spotting are things such as the ecological disaster accompanying the climate emergency. He is most aware about the danger to so many species.
An interesting, if dated book. ( )