At 04:33 PM 4/10/2007, gerhaush wrote: > and also I am rather >skeptical of the idea that species loss per se has much of an economic >effect on human welfare (as opposed to the effect exerted by people >knowing that species have been lost).
You also might want to watch this video of biologist E.O. Wilson discussing biodiversity: http://www.ted.com/tedprize/winners2007.cfm TED Prize 2007: The Winners Watch Wilson video Online: http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=e_wilson Download Video: http://ted.streamguys.net/ted_wilson_e_2007.zip Watch this talk in High Resolution (480P): http://ted.streamguys.net/ted_wilson_e_2007_480.mov Another example: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070407/ts_alt_afp/sciencenaturebeesus_070407020928 Mysterious disappearance of US bees creating a buzz excerpt: "The pollination work of honey bees increases the yield and quality of United States crops by approximately 15 billion dollars annually including six billion in California," Brandi said. Do you think extinction of bees would have no economic effect on human welfare? Maybe you think it would be a good thing to eliminate all those pesky bees? No more annoying bee stings! Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
