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These slow-turning narrative gears gives you time to notice Fuqua's lack of subtlety - as the camera panned over a stack of money for what had to be the fifth time, the preview audience I was with tittered - and his love of blood. It's not enough to be...
Gere is also playing against type, and he's amusing as a sad sack, especially in scenes with Chantel, the hooker Eddie is sweet on. Chantel is played by Shannon Kane, an actress of incomparable hip flexibility. (May Brooklyn's Finest do for her what Training Day did for Eva...
There is clearly an irony in the notion that attaching a "price" to ecosystems can help people reconnect with nature and what it offers us. Yet appreciating nature from an economic perspective may put environmental concerns on the table in a way that governments and institutions can work with. "In...
What kind of value are we talking about? According to research cited in the TEEB report, an annual investment of $45 billion to biodiversity conservation worldwide could safeguard about $5 trillion in ecosystem services - a benefit to cost ratio of 100 to 1.
There have been other efforts to value ecosystem benefits, notably by British economist David Pearce, through his book Blueprint For a Green Economy, which was influential in the 1990s. (Professor Barbier was a coauthor.) What's different now is the urgency - we get news of nature disappearing every day - and...