Arnold mentioned Island Press and a 1997 book they put out, Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems Arnold said it "made a no-brainer point: 'Free of charge, natural ecosystems provide a multitude of valuable services for people and the human economy.'.....The Pew Foundation supported the book, conceived after dinner at a Pew Fellows meeting when:
"One brilliant soul, Gretchen Daily, a Standford University professor of biological science, noted to her fellow Fellows that the failure to price natural events was a major hindrance to the formulation and implementation of policy. These policy-minded scientists needed a book on what every farmer knows:nature does stuff free that keeps us all alive. If they could put a price on that stuff, they could blame humans for hurting it in dollars and cents and drive policy against industrial civilization. Undue Influence, Ron Arnold,Free Enterprise Press, 1999, page 105
Considering the Pew Foundation association and their goal of rural genocide, "pricing natural events" so that they can blame humans for hurting it has frightening connotations when one considers the proposals in Natural Process along those same kind of lines--putting a price on nature.....
Better not take a Spanish pause while the foundation-fed enviro-sharks begin to use natural event pricing to harm resource users.......
"Nature provides for free." How? Where do those coastal nutrients originate? Who released them and how? How is that release balanced with other uses, both locally and at a distance? How are other assets in between in the riparian system effected?
Sir, my system is fully capable of dealing with it all, with the goal that the balance be optimized between natural and extractive. In fact, I want the oceans privatized. Perhaps there should even be nations there. Did you really read Part IV, Chapter 4?