...but our battered planet has many wounds, World Wildlife Fund Canada notes this week in its first-ever Nature Audit, a 104-page document subtitled Setting Canada's Conservation Agenda for the 21st Century. The wide-ranging study, borrowing from the world of accounting, tallies Canada's natural capital. It takes stock of our present-day environmental "equity," and compares what's left to the situation prior to European settlement, circa 1500-1600. The Nature Audit concludes that the way we've accounted for nature in the past -- by basically ignoring its destruction -- is a recipe for bankrupting biodiversity. A sort of environmental Enron.
Read more in the current online edition of MacLeans magazine or check out the audit report here.
Posted by mike at May 28, 2003 11:18 AM