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"...Schwartz concludes the book with some insights into what really constitutes wealth. The real wealth of the world is not in greenbacks or digital dollars or skyscrapers but in the soil and the food that comes from that soil. On page 203 she quotes environmental film maker John D. Liu:

"From the study of natural ecosystems comes an economic answer that goes to the fundamental question of `what is wealth?'. Although everything that is produced and consumed comes from the bounty of the Earth, according to current economic thinking, the value ecological function is zero. We now calculate the economy and money as the sum total of production and consumption of goods and services. By valuing products and services without recognising the ecological function from which they are derived, we have created a perverse incentive to degrade the Earth's ecosystems."

Ecologist John Todd asks, "What if we used carbon as a universal currency? What if people around the world were paid to capture and sequester carbon, particularly in soils? What if enterprises that emit carbon into the atmosphere...had to pay for the right to pollute...?" (p. 200) Christine Jones observes, "Carbon is the currency for most transactions within and between living things." (p. 201)"