Natural capital and reversing the economics of extinction: A response to George Monbiot

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George Monbiot's blistering critique of natural capital thinking overlooked the fact a price is already placed on nature, and it is close to zero

George Monbiot's piece arguing against the concept of natural capital in Wednesday's Guardian attacks the valuation of nature as "morally wrong, intellectually vacuous, and most of all counter-productive",...

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