Big Question: What is nature worth?

Plants, animals, even entire ecosystems are disappearing from the Earth. So what? In "What Is Nature Worth?", the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment offers a three-minute look at what biodiversity loss is really costing us -- and what we can do about it.

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[UMNIonE]

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[Lex Mann]

I was wondering how to get in touch with the person who posted this video. I am running a new environmental site, city to forest, and I would like to use this video for my introduction video.... Would that be O.K.?

[Xeno deCuir]

Thank you!

[chris baranowicz]

is it done in after effects?

[Charmaine Jane Prater]

What software did you use to make the visual?

[RECKOGNING1]

I tell ya one thing nature worth more than any civilization or culture EVER!!!

[ChesleyReptiles]

nature is everything, its worth more than a billion bucks

[SPAnsw]

The GDP as it's currently measured (i.e. the total number of dollars flying around) has completely outlived its usefulness as a measure of human progress. As often as not, it measures the flat-out destruction of nature.

[tyuiop6453]

Finally a way to help conservatives appreciate nature... By putting dollar signs in front of it.

[choco12323]

This is awesome!!