Sustainability Principles Online Dialogue

As a first step, recognizing that all these have an inherent value (realy an outcome of the spiritual domain, our "attitude" towards the world, toeards "otherness."

Actual pricing can come later and is basically a function of an evolving accounting. (eveoling in the sense of continiously ncorporeating more variables in its basic equation).

michael,

i agree that the recognizing of the value of the natural environment is an important step.

but i still have a question: does it mean that the parts of the earth system that we consider to be of greater importance will be valued more, and the parts that we consider to be "not so important" will be valued less? i think we can agree that the functioning of the ecosystems is a "great big unknown" to us, so i think it is highly risky to attach our subjective values to is ("subjective" because of the incoplete knowledge we have on them, due to the high level of complexity (even if the knowledge is growing continuosly))...