Reposted by Conor Waldock
If nature underpins the economy, why do biodiversity-rich countries in the Global South have such high poverty levels?
Because their natural wealth has historically attracted colonisers, and “colonisation drove colonised countries towards natural resource exportation with weakened governance”
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Systemic bio‐inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox
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