Environmentalism

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what is the point of even trying? Maybe they are right in saying that we will never find the perfect mixture, but this negative attitude is part of the problem. Nothing will be accomplished unless we reject apathy and negativity.
One writer, T.H. Watkins, has criticized the idea of putting a “price tag” on the earth. He thinks that it is wrong to assign a value to out planet. How can we possibly give a monetary value to something that we can’t live without? Although this may be true, is it possible that this monetary value might give us a perspective on just how much the earth’s resources are worth to us? It is said that the “value of the biosphere’s essential “ecosystem services”, such as climate regulation, soil formation, food production, flood control, and water supply, averages about $33 trillion a year (Watkins). Does this number have an impact on how the earth is treated? We can’t “recapture the values of tribal and village life”, but we can find ways to make ...

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