The taxpayer-funded research organization CSIRO has reportedly stopped publication of a peer-reviewed research article by a top ecological economist critical of Obama-style carbon trading-based ETS approach

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[this is almost at the end of the article but the rest is worth the read as well]

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Dr Robert Costanza, Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics recently gave a talk at Wellington's Victoria University on the the ecological and financial crises that are underway.

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"The long term solution to the financial crisis is therefore to move beyond the "growth at all costs" economic model to a model that recognizes the real costs and benefits of growth... a model that focuses on quality of life rather than merely quantity of consumption."

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The natural assets of New jersey have an estimated worth of $18 billion -- should we be using these metrics in development decisions?

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Valuing Nature

Economists have successfully branded themselves as scientists with mathematical exactitude that allows them to artfully negotiate the vagaries of human consumption patterns through pricing mechanisms.

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