Messing with nature is risky business!
For a long time now, economy and the conservation of biodiversity seemed to be two different worlds. Not many CEOs or financial managers were able to explain how their company’s impact contributed to the loss of species, deforestation or the acidification of oceans. But times have changed.
Today, trailblazing entrepreneurs understand that they don’t have to be biologists to recognize the correlation between nature and the economy. In simple terms; on a dead planet, there would be no thriving business.
Biodiversity is on the verge of collapse
The more we know about nature, the clearer it dawns to us that messing with nature is risky business. Take these instances:
We cut down trees to make wood products for sale. In turn, deforestation destroys our essential ecosystem services; and we...