Stalker was intrigued by a monetary figure making the headlines last month.
According to conservative estimates, natural eco-systems are worth £40 trillion to the human race.
With the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico now dominating headlines around the world, and taxing the brains of America’s finest minds, the eco debate looks like it might enter a new dimension.
When the president of the USA decides that green energy sources are the future, you can bet that the focus is shifting from oil.
With a third of the world’s eco-systems already destroyed and another third severely degraded we have a ways to go. Ecological restoration can act as an engine of the economy and a source of green employment.
We don’t have to look elsewhere around the world to know that we need to salvage our ecology in Ireland and look at restoring it.
Here’s hoping that the green revolution is on its way and here to stay.
