The Accounting of the Natural World

[unspeakablehorror]

It occurs to me that a lot of the vital studies done to understand the flow of resources, while many times utilizing advanced scientific techniques, are essentially, at their core, accountancy.  Like the study I mentioned in my earlier post today about the aquifers.  That's all about measuring the inflows and outflows of water.  Climate change studies do that too, via measurement of greenhouse gases and other related indicators.  Maybe one of the problems in our world is that there are too many accountants focused on money and not enough focused on the environment.