… to undertake a gargantuan task: calculate the value of all the services provided by all the ecosystems, from the forest to the floodplains to the open ocean, across the world… they came up with a number- $33 trillion a year- a headline-grabbing figure that was almost twice the global gross national product.

… to undertake a gargantuan task: calculate the value of all the services provided by all the ecosystems, from the forest to the floodplains to the open ocean, across the world… they came up with a number- $33 trillion a year- a headline-grabbing figure that was almost twice the global gross national product.

– Joe Roman –

Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act

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