Notes on ‘Natural Capital’ and ‘fairy-tales’
Next week, on the 23-24th November, the World Forum on Natural Capital takes place for a second time in Edinburgh. Given some of its framing assertions - that business as usual is dead, and that so-called environmental externalities need to be reflected in a model of true cost, true price, true value - one might be forgiven for thinking that this is a radical environmentalist, even anti-capitalist, event. But a quick perusal of participants and speakers at the event shows att