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World's Richest 10% Are Costing Earth Trillions, Study Finds (www.sciencealert.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/science@beehaw.org
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It's difficult to put a price on the environment, and some scientists even argue it's beside the point: that nature has intrinsic value, beyond the services it provides to us.

But in some situations, it helps to try to put it in economic terms: especially when those are the terms the world's wealthiest are used to dealing in.

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago

People always use the most extreme housing markets as the default example, which distorts the picture. You can buy a house with that income. I know because I did.

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