Rethinking conservation: Can economics accomplish what environmentalism could not?

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The global economy loses more money from deforestation than the current banking crisis, says an EU-commissioned report. This is taking into account the services that forests perform, such as purifying water and fixing carbon.

This is not a feeble rearrangement of the facts. When we lose the forestland that feeds water to our cities, we need to build our own new reservoirs and purification plants. The article's author, Richard Black of the BBC, wonders if framing conservation in terms of what it can do for human societies will do more good than preserving nature for nature's sake

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