RATHER than offer a definitive “to do list” for policy makers, the MA scientists have set out a range of 74 possible types of action and evaluated how promising they seem to be.
Many are familiar chants from the environmental soapbox: eliminating wasteful and destructive agricultural subsidies, paying landowners to maintain habitats, taxing goods to reflect environmental costs, and making ecosystem health a specific policy goal. But it is not too late for steps like these to reverse the decline in the ecosystem services that support life.
The MA looked at four scenarios. Two involved global planning, while the other…
