Putting a Value on Nature's Free Services
Unlike other issues we have read so far, this issue was trying to
weigh and value the externalities the environment was facing. Overall,
the both arguments were suggesting the same point: environmental
services should be valued. However, the arguments differed in a sense
that one of them was suggesting it was possible these services, on the
other hand, the other was suggesting it was hard to measure this
value. First argument was for measuring the value, whereas the second
one was against this.
First argument was using examples from animals like bees and forests
of India, Amazons, South America and areas nearby, over and over.
Presenting issue from both perspectives-consumer and producer-this
argument made a better job drawing a clear in image in my head. "For
the timber and plantation barons of Indonesia…homes and
livelihoods"(pg4, 2nd paragraph). As in this phrase from the issue,
the producers-the barons in this case-value how much crop can they
make out of a forest but they don't consider the cost of the nature's
services. "Many of these services(nature's free services) are
indispensable to the people who exploit them, yet are not counted as
real benefits, or as a part of GNP."(pg5, 3rd paragraph). Nature's
services cannot be replaced by manpower therefore, once destroyed
there is no way of being able to use it again. The examples given in
the argument are helpful enough to understand that humans are
destroying the environment and day-by-day the natural resources are
depleting. Nobody disagrees this fact. What is more important and hard
to determine, however, is to measure the cost/value of using these
resources. Here are some ways presented by the book to measure this
cost:
· Measuring the economic value of a service that manpower can build to
replace a service that nature provides. (Ex: Mangrove Forests; pg8,
4th paragraph)
· Measure the economic value to a society if they did not have this
natural service. (Ex: New York City; pg9, 3rd paragraph)
Even though these ways of measuring value seem logical and efficient,
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