Can putting a price on nature help us care about it more? - The Climate Question, BBC World Service

[@jimmyliu_youtube]

The danger of putting a price on nature is that, it often underestimates the real value of nature, but provides a way to justify destruction before compensation.

[@alessandrasilvestri9]

I had the chance to visit Africa in 2017 as a "green tourist" observing a project aimed at re-wilding portions of rainforest in Tanzania, destroyed by local government and some local ( growing) communities to replace them with huge cocoa, sugar cane and gum tree intensive plantations, managed by International companies thus paying the use of those lands to the Tanzanian government, which didn't redistribute money. The Rewilding project involved community children, who sold tree sprouts ( obtained by seeds) to local farmers, paying this way their community primary school and teachers - otherwise paid exclusively by poor communities and not regularly. Farmers were meant to reforest large extension of old no longer productive plantations. Meanwhile, researchers, mainly engineers and biologists, taught local communities ( for free ) not to use forest wood to light fires and cook, using clay ovens instead, and letting new trees grow until they became forest again. No need to give money to local governments, only clarifiying and explaining to communities the important role of the rainforest -and water- for their own survival. I would prefer extending similar projects, helping local people to " find their way" to recreate the forest, rather than paying local governments for our ( egoistic) sake.

[@ZeynepKuyar]

I agree this.

[@ANJA-mj1to]

If we consider civil engineering as well as other disciplines of engieering science we can say that the monitoring health of the construction industry envolving manufacturing technologies bring us the global concern especially for the forest. Forest resources are important for construction elements but we must be aware and relie on a renewable resources such as trees engineered timber but in rational way combining it with other renewable materials in selection.

[@İlbilge8468]

Greetings from Turkiye

[@simonmcglary]

What would ecosystem services cost if humans carried out those tasks that are currently free of charge? Essentially, a cost we currently don’t have. Compare that with the cost of conservation.

[@andrescalvobarrantes2896]

Nature is priceless. Mere proxies by EVM risk us to lose focus on what is at stake, planet-scale. Holistic approaches must go much beyond "natural capital" and ecosystem services".

[@mehtarahul1419891]

Amazing content 🙂🙂

[@biradarsantosh-c4s]

we need wood (until we find other environment-friendly materials from a research breakthrough) for which the trees are cut but to compensate (like if they cut 1 tree is cut they should plant 1000 trees with all the care it should get like water, fencing, etc)...all governments across the world should unite to save lungs of our planet ...otherwise carelessness leads to climatic disasters, drought, floods.

[@soton5teve]

Typical capitalism, knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

[@LubovKharlampieva]

Thats true!

[@AlbertoJaramillo-eu5us]

En que país vives tú, y cuéntanos cómo y de que vives ?

[@luciavalente1002]

About 25 years ago I read a book that influenced my life - 'If Women Counted' by Marilyn Warning. Published in 1988. I recommend it highly. Very powerful

[@BBCWorldService]

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[@sohaildurrani4262]

That time we most need avoid the blame game for efacted reason behind there, we all responsible for everything, definitely need act unitedly for this cause

[@hht9945]

No body is exceptional in front of nature The world needs cooperations and has the technical know how to heal our mother land to bring back rainfall equilibilium before it go to Global boiling

[@thusheefer2433]

It's priceless ❤

[@mokhan1864]

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[@mikepotter5718]

We can save the world by making it an accounting problem!!!

[@gehwissen3975]

My wife puts me on a ❤TRILLION❤ Nobody else cares... You got the idea

[@jonathanoconnor9546]

16,000 years ago no residual snow during summer at Chicago. 12,000 yrs ago a 2 mile high glacier over Chicago gouging out the Great Lakes. 7,000 yrs ago it was warm enough that there was a warm inland sea in Iceland. (Happy to provide a video with an Icelandic Glaciologist saying so). From 1300 to 1890 we were in the Little Ice Age. Since humans are responsible for Climate Change, what is the Industrial Activity we humans keep turning on and off? (What kind of technology did we have 16,000 yrs ago when it was warm? Ans: Hunter/Gatherer. No sign of even simple agriculture... pre horse drawn plows, yet warm.) From Ice Core Samples 500 million yrs ago CO2 conc in the atmospehere was 4,000 ppm. Today it is 400 ppm. What were we humans doing 500 million yrs ago to make the CO2 *Ten Times* today's CO2 conc.

[@ajsphinx]

Does putting a price on the time of a human life who spends working on a desktop his entire life, improves his life or businesses life?

[@Laughylaugh75]

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[@rickebuschcatherine2729]

Yes it's always the same... we put a lot of money for enviroment and for education and it's wasting by people who don't want realy to work correctly... thinking of a big salary must of all.... what a shame, because we could have done so much already....

[@carltontweedle5724]

Put a price on it the government will want to tax a walk in the woods or on the beach.

[@lw1zfog]

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[@punnaroothsrimongkolsilp1543]

No, you can not put price on nature. How much? Based on what?

[@JimmyTimmy-wh8dz]

£2.50

[@MichaelJimmy-yt6vr]

Habitats are priceless, each time a habitat is used to make money or take out what's animals or marine life or use the habitat till it effects other marine life it mean s not only is it taking out life of animals but their habitat is being destroyed, being from the mouth of the Yukon River we all know the Bering Sea Trawling and other activities are responsible for including N0AA are not respecting other users , all of Alaska, Canada, Korea, Russia and other users. Quit being so stingy, we were the first user's of this resource long before even the first Trawling ever came to the Bering Sea. 😮

[@NadarajGanesan]

Similarly just think human life...can we do a costing and sum up the worth of a human life as in a global statistic to say its worth is x amount based on different people living around the world...the body is an waste product in the end..the priceless element is the Soul...Thus the trees of a forest can be cut/destroyed/re planted by humans. But the priceless eco system diversified into a constant oxygen providing system is priceless...only natural grown forest develop that unique energy...which no human recreate as nature does..the chemicals and various living energy that GOD created is PRICELESS till its destroyed.

[@ChinaGatitaMEOWS]

Everything is being influenced and managed without me I have nothing to do with this im not liable for their actions XXX

[@madzen112]

Sounds like a great tool for the analytically minded. An abstraction.

[@李永浴]

那bbc 去思考重建北極北冰洋需要多少小型核電 多少製冰廠 兩百億美元去穆款

[@whatgeorgeneedlikeone3758]

Does BBC really care about nature environment?

[@atiisaraf5362]

Your imagination are powerful 😅but it was great to organize every country specially industrial one😂start from urs

[@yisongyang5164]

So u can make rich people buying it? 😂

[@andrescoronel1740]

Your question is wrongly possed, nature belongs to God sr, to God, amen. 😡

[@alfredkwok9239]

no way

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