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Balancing the Earth's accounts

Governments could safeguard the world's biodiversity with a small fraction of the money they spend on environmentally harmful subsidies.

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James, A., Gaston, K. & Balmford, A. Balancing the Earth's accounts. Nature 401, 323–324 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/43774

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