The Great Impostors: In the Name of Saving Natural World, Governments Are Privatizing It | Common Dreams

The Great Impostors: In the Name of Saving Natural World, Governments Are Privatizing It | Common Dreams
"It diminishes us, it diminishes nature. By turning the natural world into a subsidiary of the corporate economy, it reasserts the biblical doctrine of dominion. It slices the biosphere into component commodities: already the government's task force is talking of "unbundling" ecosystem services, a term borrowed from previous privatisations. This might make financial sense; it makes no ecological sense. The more we learn about the natural world, the more we discover that its functions cannot be safely disaggregated."