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What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?
Tony Juniper
How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
Synergetic Press
August 2013
On Sale: July 31, 2013
336 pages
ISBN: 0907791484
EAN: 9780907791485
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
During recent years, and since 2005 in particular, the
environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate
change, carbon emissions and efforts to achieve low carbon
economies. But a number of academic, technical, political,
business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new
wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly
different set of subjects: namely that of 'natural capital,'
'ecosystem services' and 'biodiversity,' or in other words,
what Nature does for us. From Indian Vultures to Chinese bees and from recycling
miracles in the soil to the abundant genetic codebook
underpinning our food and pharmaceutical needs, Nature
provides the 'ecosystem services' that underlie our
economies. It is been estimated that these and other
services are worth about twice the global GDP, and yet we
take most of these services for granted, imagining them free
and limitless-until they suddenly switch off. This is a book full of immediate, impactful stories,
containing warnings, such as the rabies epidemic that
followed a disappearance of Indian vultures (hormones in
cattle killed the birds and resulted surplus in carcasses,
creating an explosion of wild dogs), as well as promising
and enlightening tales of how birds protect fruit harvests,
coral reefs shield coasts from storms and how the
rainforests absorb billions of tons of carbon released from
automobiles and power stations. Tony Juniper's book will
change the whole way you think about life, the planet and
the economy.
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