you are in charge of global nature -- let's
just assume for a second -- and I'm in
charge of the global economy -- just for a
second. what's the connection between us?
financial systems which of course I
don't understand and you do but
financial systems have a lot in common
with the natural world systems both our
economies both for example if you deal
with with your investment with your
capital it's fine if you take as far as
I understand these things it's fine if
you can take the profit and take the
investment but you wouldn't be so silly
as to eat into the capital would you
not but that is what we are doing with
the natural world
all the time and doing hand in the seas
for example I mean the herrings at
eighteenth-century herrings in in the
North Sea were huge they were rich so
what do we do we actually fish them to
extinction
and so then we move off to the Atlantic
the cod wonderful the banks of
Newfoundland huge amount of coral of cod
which couldn't possibly be exterminated
but we did we don't learn we have to
treat the natural world in the way in
which you deal with economies we have
can only take we must eat into capital
we can only take profit and so on and
I'm sure there is much more and the
parallels between these two things then
I can
then I can understand but you will
because you understand how you deal with
with financially economics and the same
sort of principles affect the natural
world. okay I can see how technologies
could come into play and how they impact
economies and how they can help with
nature as well and one of the very few
things that we can do is look at how
governments spend money
and one of the things that we have found
out is that they're spending generally
around the world enormous amounts of
money on subsidies which subsidies are
often used to burn fossil fuel and that
also has an impact on carbon emissions
yes on the warming of this Arctic north
eastern or northwestern part and Greenland and the impact it has on caribou and on
and on so we are related in that respect
because we can identify for governments
why spending so much money we talk about
trillions of dollars five point two
trillion dollars in 2015
soon to be updated is actually having an
impact on exactly what you are
describing
