Ben Kite

Why Michael Gove musn't regard our planet as just 'natural capital'

Ben Kite

| 23rd April 2018

The term ‘natural capital' was cited a number of times in the UK government’s 25-year environment plan. Yet measuring the value of our environmental resources in purely economic terms is both short sighted and dangerous, argues BEN KITE

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