Long-term investors are part of the solution to one of humanity’s most pressing problems – the rapid degradation of natural-ecosystem services and resources.
A mechanism to enable ecosystem assets to be priced, would signal their scarcity and, thereby, their value to everyone.
Real markets would be forced to ration consumption of ecosystem assets in their production processes, as they now do for the use of physical, technological, and human capital.
Financial markets would be better able to identify and ration capital to companies whose franchise values were are risk from the inefficient use of ecosystem assets.
