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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, reminded himself of saying ’This is mine’, and found people simple enough
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, reminded himself of saying ’This is mine’, and found people simple enough
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2014-06-25
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, reminded himself of saying ’This is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. Now it is not the land is being enclosed, but the rest of the natural world. In many countries, nature is being valued and commodified so that it can be exchanged for cash. We don’t call it nature any more; now the proper term is "natural capital". Natural processes have become "ecosystem services", as they exist only to serve us.
The argument in favour of this approach is coherent and plausible. Business currently treats the natural world as if it is worth nothing. Pricing nature and incorporating that price into the cost of goods and services creates an economic incentive for its protection. It certainly appeals to both business and the self-hating states.
Payments for ecosystem services look to me like the prelude to the greatest privatization. The government has already begun describing land owners as the "providers" of ecosystem services, as if they had created the rain and the hills and the rivers and the wildlife that inhabits them. They are to be paid for these services, either by the government or by "users". Land ownership since the time of the first deceiver has involved the gradual accumulation of exclusive rights, which were seized from commoners. Payments for ecosystem services extend this encroachment by appointing the landlord as the owner of the wildlife, the water flow, the natural processes that were previously deemed to belong to everyone and no one.
But it doesn’t end there. Once a resource has been commodified, speculators and traders step in. The Ecosystem Markets Task Force now talks of "harnessing City financial expertise to assess the ways that these blended revenue streams and securitisations enhance the ROI[return on investment]of an environmental bond". This gives you an idea of how far this process has gone — and of the officialese it has begun to generate.
Like other aspects of neoliberalism, the commodification of nature forestalls democratic choice. No longer will we be able to argue that an ecosystem or a landscape should be protected because it affords us wonder and delight; we’ll be told that its intrinsic value has already been calculated and, doubtless, that it turns out to be worth less than the other uses to which the land could be put. The market has spoken; end of debate.
All those messy, subjective matters, the motivating forces of democracy, will be resolved in a column of figures. Governments won’t need to regulate; the market will make the decisions that politicians have ducked. But trade is an unstable master, and unresponsive to anyone except those with the money. The costing and sale of nature represents another transfer of power to corporations and the very rich.
What is the best title for this text?
选项
A、Resources Privatization Since the Land Enclosure
B、A New Thinking on Nature Protection
C、A Looming Threat to Ecosystem
D、Pricing Nature Will Diminish Us All
答案
D
解析
本文首先引出“自然资源商品化”这一话题,然后介绍了支持者观点;接着展开层层反驳,先指出“自然资源商品化”会造成权力的侵占,造成投机分子和交易商对资源的过度利用,然后又指出“自然资源商品化”会使得环保不再是民主选择,而是将自然完全交由市场.造成权力向公司和富人的转移。可见,[D]选项是对全文内容的概括,凸显了作者对“给自然定价”的强烈否定态度。
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