Why Ecosystem Services Matter

Basically, this pot cast is explaining the relation between the approximated value of ecosystems and how ecosystem services are being viewed as a monetary object. Peter Kareiva, chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy is the primary source for this information in which he states that cost benefit analysis and dollars are how decisions are made but there's no way that humans could estimate a specific price of ecosystem services.  He goes on to say that by the lack of concern for nature we often find ourselves and various difficult positions such as the killing of bees risking pollination or the destruction caused by Katrina which was the largely due to development on wetlands.  However, he personally states that he would prefer to have a value on nature rather than had not having one at all for this would be far to dangerous for our ecosystems. I personally think that in a way it is a distressing that we find ourselves trying to put a price on our earth instead of accepting it for what it is. But at the same time it is formidably keeping us from destroying our earth by thinking value of our world is totally absent. it would be very interesting to see what people will eventually say about he earths worth and I can only hope it allows for us to realize it is too far valuable to list.