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Money can grow on trees: what's good for nature is good for business

Money can grow on trees: what's good for nature is good for business

FromIntelligence Squared


Money can grow on trees: what's good for nature is good for business

FromIntelligence Squared

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Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Feb 27, 2015
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Podcast episode

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Capitalists don’t care about the environment. Industry, agriculture and commerce have long exploited nature’s resources. The pursuit of profit pays scant regard to the underlying cost of using up the planet’s capital.

That’s the familiar story that we hear about capitalists. But a growing number of voices are claiming that big business and nature in fact make perfect partners.

Harnessing the processes of nature, they argue, is simply good business sense. Forests, for example, perform carbon capture worth £2.3 trillion a year. Nature not only does this for free, it executes it with greater efficiency than any supply-chain manager could dream of. A Texan chemical plant, for instance, recently discovered that it could keep its ground ozone levels down by planting a forest nearby, for the same cost as erecting a new smokestack scrubber which would have done the same job.

This is simply one example of how business can thrive through collaboration with nature. But the question is, can such solutions be... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Feb 27, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

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