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Sustainability: A New Bottom Line

Under the current economic system, essential aspects of the natural world like air, the ozone layer, water, topsoil, biodiversity, and many others are considered "externalities," that is, outside the economy. But it is through these features that nature performs vital services, such as filtering water, pollinating flowering plants, composting vegetation, exchanging carbon dioxide for oxygen, and much more. Many of these critical services could never be duplicated by human technology, yet because they are provided for free by nature, they are essentially ignored as though they were worthless. For more on these ideas go to the article by David Suzuki in the Environmental News Network (January 5, 2005).

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