Humans need to value nature as well as profits to survive, UN report finds

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) Taking into account all the benefits nature provides to humans and redefining what it means to have a “good quality of life” is key to living sustainably on Earth, a four-year assessment by 82 leading scientists has found.

A market-based focus on short-term profits and economic growth means the wider benefits of nature have been ignored, which has led to bad decisions that have reduced people’s wellbeing and contributed to climate and nature crises, according to a UN report. To achieve sustainable development, qualitative approaches need to be incorporated into decision making.

This means properly valuing the spiritual, cultural and emotional values that nature brings to humans, according to the report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Ipbes). The assessment includes more than 13,000 references, including scientific papers, and indigenous and local sources of information. It was done in collaboration with experts in social science, economics and humanities.

The report builds on the Dasgupta review, which found the planet is being put at “extreme risk” by the failure of economics to take account of the true value of nature. Incorporating diverse worldviews and knowledge systems will be key to leading to a more sustainable future, the report says. ...............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/11/humans-value-nature-survive-un-report-age-of-extinction

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[hedda_foil]

2. Gee,ya think????

[texasfiddler]

3. Fits on a bumper sticker. Maybe our side is learning how to message finally. NT

[Irish_Dem]

4. People and our planet are the two most valuable resources we have.

And we treat both like crap.

[SheltieLover]

5. Kicking for visibility

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Move cities underground. Plant over them.

[former9thward]

8. No thanks.

You may wish to be a hermit but most of us do not.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Consider the energy savings

You pipe in as much sunlight as you please (fiber optics) and have an enormous park right over your head. Much cleaner air because you'd have no need for cars and trucks shuffling people and things around -- design for people, not vehicles.

I'd still be a hermit and avoid your cities, above or below ground, but it's apparent to me that lots of people like cities.

[gratuitous]

7. I think most humans do value nature over the obscene wealth amassed by a few

But for some reason we're fucking up the planet anyway for the greater profit of a handful of people. Can't imagine how that happened.

[Duppers]

10. K & R x 1000

[hunter]

11. Humans survived before there were "profits."

The invention of money was one of the dumbest things we humans ever did.

It's now so ingrained in us we can't even imagine what a human society without money would look like, especially a sustainable environmentally friendly high-tech society.