Consideraciones éticas en torno a la valoración económica como estrategia para la diversidad biológica

Abstract

In order to solve the global environmental crisis, the economic valuation of the so-called “environmental goods and services” has been proposed, as well as the quantification of the damages produced in the ecosystems as a consequence of human activity, both of which have been traditionally excluded from economic analyses. In this essay, a critical overview of ecological economics is presented; the elements that make unviable the economic valuation of biodiversity as a conservation strategy are analyzed from a biocentric perspective. The inconvenience of such proposal is explained, which will not contribute to the mitigation of the impacts on the environment and biodiversity generated by the anthropogenic activities and, instead, it will imply a cultural degradation of the non human beings that, at least up to the present, have not been included into the market dynamic. To prevent future environmental loses of higher proportions, an essential change of the principles and ideals of contemporary society must be carried out, which will not be produced by the insertion of the unmarketable into the prevailing economic system.

Keywords:

Crisis de la biodiversidad

valoración económica

bioética

cultura

conservación

Biodiversity crisis

economic valuation

bioethics

culture

conservation

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