The cost of losing the biosphere
 

Robinson 344: "Here's the true economy [...] since the Earth's biosphere [is] the only one available to humanity, and its healthy function absolutely necessary to humanity's existence, its worth to people [is] a kind of existential infinity. Gauging the price of saving the biosphere's function against the cost of losing them would therefore always be impossible."

> from Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future (2020)

> tagged with #climate, #economics

> created May 28, 2025 at 10:22:15 AM


> part of unfinished everything


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