But the other thing is that nature has been left out and nothing shows how fundamentally difficult it is than Mark Carney’s book that he wrote before he became a politician.
The first chapter he points out Jeff Bezos Amazon is valued by the economy in the tens of billions of dollars. Brazil’s Amazon, the rainforest, the greatest ecosystem on the planet, has no economic value until it is logged, mined, damned, or grows soybeans, cattle, or houses.
That shows right there what the problem is. That we feel that we’re supreme and everything in the service of us like Bezos’s Amazon is worthwhile but nature, that is keeping the planet habitable for us, has zero economic value.
So then you say okay but let’s work within the system but the system is all designed and based on the fact that nature has no value…