https://www.scmp.com/rss/514470/feed Jake Kuyer is associate director of economics & sustainability at Oxford Economics en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Drinking a pint in a pub may not feel like a nature-dependent activity, but it is. Like countless other consumer purchases, from clothing to mobile phones, many of the inputs that brewers need to make beer derive from the natural world. In fact, the market economy can be thought of as a system of creating wealth from applying human ingenuity to the gifts that nature provides us. We harvest the bounties of nature, and bring them to market to trade for a profit. As technology and other processes... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3203562/how-global-economy-needs-biodiversity-look-no-further-your-pint-beer?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3203562/how-global-economy-needs-biodiversity-look-no-further-your-pint-beer?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Dec 2022 11:30:08 +0000