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What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?
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What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

How Money Really Does Grow on Trees

Profile Books, 2013 mais...

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Scientific
  • Eye Opening
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

This earnest book – a tightly packed environmental economics overview – brims with facts and figures, alternately harping and hopeful about dismal ecological conditions worldwide. Eco-warrior Tony Juniper travels the planet, tracking what’s gone wrong, what environmentally aware people are doing right and what society still must do to heal the natural world. getAbstract recommends his cogent, readable analysis and finds the tale of India’s vultures particularly memorable. With a storyteller’s bent, Juniper attempts a cost-benefit analysis of nature’s services, making the case for ecology as an economic good and a worthy financial investment. He concludes that ultimately, enlightened self-interest must prevail: Earth is humanity’s only home. Society and business can ill-afford to keep destroying it.

Take-Aways

  • The societies of the world and their economies rely entirely on Earth’s dynamic biogeochemical systems.
  • Soil supports 90% of the planet’s food supply, but soil fertility is falling.
  • 27% of global corporate executives say the decline in biodiversity will hurt their business.

About the Author

Environmentalist Tony Juniper is former director of the Friends of the Earth and adviser to Charles, HRH Prince of Wales.


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