Rights of Nature: Planting the Seeds of Change

Rather than shifting course, the so-called Green Economy strategy unveiled at the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development drives nature further into the global marketplace by defining an economic value on what the Earth “does” for humans, detachedly called “ecosystem services.” Proponents of this scheme of “commoditizing” soil, forests, and fresh water profess that by putting a price on the natural world, it can be ‘saved’. The report from Global Exchange can be read athttp://www.globalexchange.org/sites/default/files/RONPlantingSeeds.pdf