"Nature is a 'blind spot' in economics. We can no longer afford for it to be absent from accounting systems that dictate national finances, or ignored by economic decision makers.
The long-awaited Dasgupta Review describes Nature as “our most precious asset” and finds that humanity has collectively mismanaged its “global portfolio”: our demands far exceed Nature's capacity to supply “goods and services” we all rely on.
The last few decades of human prosperity have taken a “devastating” ecological toll, and the Review highlights recent estimates that suggest we would need 1.6 Earths to maintain humanity's current way of life."
This is according to an independent review (☞ PDF) on the economics of biodiversity, produced by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta from the University of Cambridge.