What do most people get dangerously wrong about our relationship with the natural world?
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We keep asking what a forest is worth, as if the answer were a number waiting to be discovered. It isn’t. A price is a decision about what we agree to see — and for three centuries we agreed not to see the forest at all, only the timber.
The dangerous error is to treat “nature” as a stock of resources sitting outside us, rather than the web we are stitched into. Call it natural capital if that helps the spreadsheet, but don’t mistake the metaphor for the thing. The question was never how much but who counts — which beings, which generations, which futures are allowed into the circle where value is set.
Re-embed the economy inside the living world, rather than the other way round, and most of what we call “trade-offs” turns out to be a failure of imagination.
Nature is not a resource we hold. It is the membership we belong to.
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