Partha Dasgupta: Nature, our most precious asset
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2021
- The last few decades of human prosperity have taken a devastating ecological toll.
This is in part because nature is absent from the accounting systems that dictate national economies.
In February 2021, the Cambridge economist Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta published a ground-breaking report on the economics of biodiversity.
Watch Sir Partha outline the radical thinking required to reshape global economies in a sustainable way.
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Will humans use intelligent and act to protect the very things that keep us alive? Or will we wait for nature's cruel hand to force the required action. How can we claim intelligence above other creatures?
Interesting, but what is new here I'm wondering - have not certain cultures understood many of these points for ages? A subsequent reading of Prof Dasgupta's research may help me with this. But I have a bigger worry: Describing "nature" as an asset, initially strikes me as being some kind of category mistake - in a big way if you ask me. Nature has a far deeper ontological status that does not warrant it being reduced to a member of some class of economic good. It is not merely some tool for human-kind. It is not an instrument of our being. It is not somewhere else, not an other. It is the ground of our existence. This alienating mode of thinking is compounded when humans are exhorted to be "asset managers" or by suggesting a balance-sheet or portfolio approach to accounting for the state of our ecosystem - better than nothing I suppose, but the worry is that this mode is avoiding the deep causes of our failings. I hope too that the economist has devoted time to analysing how we got into this mess in the first place, to answering what are the root causes of this massive failure. Without such analysis are we not doomed to repeat such failure, surely?
I'd love to add turkish subtitles when i have time
It’s really sad that we have to describe nature as an economic asset to try to convince ourselves of its value. Of course nature is our greatest asset, but more importantly, nature is nature. That should be enough for us to want to preserve it and prioritize it over the short term debt driven profits for a tiny minority of people.
At its core, the problem is to find a balance between what we take from nature and what we leave behind for our descendents.
Incredibly interesting and thoughtful video however... that frog footage is amazing!
Yes
Professor Joseph Campbell would definitely approve of this noble cause!
I liked that
Cambridge: If you're deleting my comments, you should be deeply ashamed. How can open discussion on an existential issue be forbidden? When collapse occurs, look in the mirror.