By Tony Juniper
From the peat bathrooms and woodlands that aid to safe our water provide, to the bees and soils that produce lots of the meals we devour, Britain is wealthy in 'natural capital'. but we take provides of unpolluted water and safe foodstuff without any consideration, hardly ever contemplating the unfastened paintings nature does for Britain. in reality for years we've got broken the structures that maintain us below the semblance that we're maintaining costs down, via extensive farming, drainage of bathrooms, clearing forests and turning rivers into canals. As Tony Juniper's new research indicates, even though, the ways that we meet our wishes frequently doesn't make monetary sense.
Through bright first hand money owed and inspirational examples of ways the wear and tear is being repaired, Juniper takes readers on a trip to another Britain from the single many suppose we inhabit, now not a rustic the place nature is valueless or an obstacle to growth, however the actual Britain, the single the place we're supported through nature, flora and fauna and average platforms at nearly each flip.
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