There are two examples I want to provide here.
The first is the most obvious example: a man comes into the rights of exclusive use of fertile farmland. Let’s say he had plans to develop it into a prosperous farm, but he lost all of his capital gambling and in a fit of sadness, desperation, and rage, he sows the fertile soil with salts, eliminating vast natural resources when he had exclusive use rights. When he gives up the land when he can’t afford the LVT, will he be made to pay for the damages done? Will he be imprisoned/executed when he can’t pay? If he won’t be made to pay, can’t someone actively destroy natural resources present on land to lower the LVT if they only care about the geographic advantage?
2nd example: let’s say the government is auctioning off property, and two individuals want to buy and build a home on the property. Only one of them wins the auction, and they develop a house on the property. Let’s also say they fail to pay the tax and the government repossesses the land. The other individual now wants it and still wants to build his ideal home, which is not the one currently on the property. They’ll have to destroy the house that currently resides there and rebuild. In that sense, the first owner did economic damage to the land, despite increasing its productive capacity in one, limited direction. So similarly to the first example, will the first owner be made to pay the economic damages he caused?
The IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) of the UN has published a report on the root causes of pandemics. https://ipbes.net/pandemics
The main root causes are the trade in wild animals and animal husbandry (due to factory farming and land use and degradation).
I find these two recommendations to policy makers remarkable:
1.) "Enabling changes to reduce the types of consumption, globalized agricultural expansion and trade that have led to pandemics – this could include taxes or levies on meat consumption, livestock production and other forms of high pandemic-risk activities."
2.) "Ensuring that the economic cost of pandemics is factored into consumption, production, and government policies and budgets."
#pandemics #corona #biodiversity #livestock #animalagriculture #plantbasedfoodsystem
Hello, does anyone out here know how can I calculate land degradation using land productivity raster? Thanks!
The IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) of the UN has published a report on the root causes of pandemics. https://ipbes.net/pandemics
The root causes are the trade in wild animals and animal husbandry (due to factory farming and land use and degradation).
I find these two recommendations to policy makers remarkable:
1.) "Enabling changes to reduce the types of consumption, globalized agricultural expansion and trade that have led to pandemics – this could include taxes or levies on meat consumption, livestock production and other forms of high pandemic-risk activities."
2.) "Ensuring that the economic cost of pandemics is factored into consumption, production, and government policies and budgets."
#pandemics #corona #biodiversity #livestock #animalagriculture #plantbasedfoodsystem
