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15 pounds
Tin can, 3 five pound notes, wire
£ or lbs
Intrinsic value, extrinsic value, market value, sentimental value. In 2020 we took stock this year of the things we value, whether it was seeing friends or family (because we couldn’t see them) or traveling (because we couldn’t) or going to work (because we couldn’t) or hugging people (because we shouldn’t). We witnessed governments making decision based on the value of the economy v/s the value of health.
Reading about the supply chain involved in the trafficking of pangolins for scales and meat was alarming. Do I begrudge the person who gets a few dollars for capturing the animal? The middle people who get between 10-200 for moving them? The salesperson who can get thousands of dollars per kg for scales or the person who is buying them for spurious medicinal purposes or as a delicacy? I guess I blame the system.
An economic model based on the idea of unending growth, which plunders nature and treats the environment as an externality is as farcical (dangerous) as it has proved inequitable. It would be sad to realise how much we value (and rely on) nature as a result of no longer having access to it.
It’s time we reimagined the environment and the economy or the price will continue to be global pandemics, (un)natural disasters and species extinction.
Hey little pangolin, I think you’re priceless.
*I got my info from wildlifejustice.org ‘Scaling up: The Rapid Growth in the Industrial Scale Trafficking of Pangolin Scales and poachingfacts.com
Tin can, 3 five pound notes, wire
£ or lbs
Intrinsic value, extrinsic value, market value, sentimental value. In 2020 we took stock this year of the things we value, whether it was seeing friends or family (because we couldn’t see them) or traveling (because we couldn’t) or going to work (because we couldn’t) or hugging people (because we shouldn’t). We witnessed governments making decision based on the value of the economy v/s the value of health.
Reading about the supply chain involved in the trafficking of pangolins for scales and meat was alarming. Do I begrudge the person who gets a few dollars for capturing the animal? The middle people who get between 10-200 for moving them? The salesperson who can get thousands of dollars per kg for scales or the person who is buying them for spurious medicinal purposes or as a delicacy? I guess I blame the system.
An economic model based on the idea of unending growth, which plunders nature and treats the environment as an externality is as farcical (dangerous) as it has proved inequitable. It would be sad to realise how much we value (and rely on) nature as a result of no longer having access to it.
It’s time we reimagined the environment and the economy or the price will continue to be global pandemics, (un)natural disasters and species extinction.
Hey little pangolin, I think you’re priceless.
*I got my info from wildlifejustice.org ‘Scaling up: The Rapid Growth in the Industrial Scale Trafficking of Pangolin Scales and poachingfacts.com
