Dear George Monbiot, You Got This One Wrong. Natural Capital Is Essential In Conserving Critical Ecosystems
A recent editorial by George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, condemns the UK government’s new environmental plan. I can’t speak to the merits and shortfalls of the UK plan, but in the piece Monbiot asserts that “defining Earth’s resources as ‘natural capital’ is morally wrong, intellectually vacuous, and most of all counter-productive.” We at Ecosphere+…