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The book "What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?" discusses the importance of nature and its impact on the economy. It highlights the various services provided by nature, such as recycling, pest control, and genetic resources, which are estimated to be worth double the global GDP. The book also includes stories that serve as both warnings and examples of the positive effects of nature, such as the decline of vultures in India due to drugs given to cattle and the protection provided by birds and coral reefs. Overall, the book aims to change the way readers think about the planet and its relationship with the economy.
Money doesn't grow on trees. Or does it? From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, nature provides 'natural services', 24/7. This book offers impactful stories, containing both warnings (such as in the tale of India's vultures, killed off by drugs given to cattle, leading to an epidemic of rabies) and also the positive.
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP. Yet we take most of Nature's services for granted, imagining them free and limitless ...until they suddenly switch off. This is a book full of immediate, impactful stories, containing both warnings (such as in the tale of India's vultures, killed off by drugs given to cattle, leading to an epidemic of rabies) but also the positive (how birds protect fruit harvests, coral reefs protect coasts from storms and how the rainforests absorb billions of tonnes of carbon released from cars and power stations). Tony Juniper's book will change whole way you think about life, the planet and the economy.
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