greatbritishhoney
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'renting' the rain forests, paying compensation for their non-use.
This is almost certainly the way things will have to go.
It is fairly well accepted, climate change aside, that we are over exploiting the world's resources. The Global Footprint Network's 2008 study showed that we were in effect using 1.4 times the earths resource and reabsorptive capacity per annum (whereas in 1961 we were using 0.6 earths). Quite a worrying statistic considering the trend shows absolutely no sign of going anywhere other than up.
So, I think it is likely that the only way humans will be able to start to adequately regulate their impact on the environment is through the market - by quantifying the environmental cost of our consumption (i.e - passing on the cost of all the negative externalities to the polluter / consumer). I can't really see any other way without a major change of our political and economic systems.