'Do you own that Tree? Do you own that Grass? Do you own that animal? Do you own this world?'. The answer is No, because we are thinking individually.
How could we change so much when we are asked as a group?
'Do we own that Tree? Do we own that Mountain? Do we own the water? Do we own this World?'. The answer is either Unsure or Yes.
Before you say 'How could we own this world? we live on this and we share everything, what is wrong with you?', think deeply, isn't there a tiny bit of you thinking that we own this world? And to be honest, how often do you think the question about 'Own or not Own', how much do you care about it? Is this just something when other people start to mention and you start to care and you just completely forget after one hour?
What is wrong with us?
We don't own anything.
We own everything to the world.
I am kind of lost and I bet whoever is reading this is now lost as well.
Putting prices on everything is not terrible, putting prices on ecosystem is not that bad, these actions are made to bring a temporal stable situation.
Obviously I am not on the right track, but always think before we actually state something.
I was going to post something else this time, but I now think that I have no stand on this topic.
Putting a price on something so priceless seems rather idiosyncratic. I think we've come to a point within society that we no longer value things unless they serve us in some way and we can therefore place some monetary value on this item or service. Value is (unfortunately) only seen in things that directly benefit us. While this means that pricing our environment does allow the average person to understand what it's worth, the only way we can separate from this destructive "put a price tag on our environment" narrative is to rework the way we think and place value on things as a community.
I agree with you and sometimes I often feel confused about environmental issues. People sometimes cannot recognize the value of items. Therefore, a price tag is needed to help people understand their intrinsic value.
I agree with you that it is a challenging topic to think about. I think that no one technically can own an ecosystem since it is part of the earth and the issue likes more with ecosystem preservation which is not necessarily dependent on if an ecosystem is values or not. Thinking more about who owns an ecosystem definitely makes it harder to have an opinion on the topic.
I appreciate your poetic approach to today's discussion. I recognize how your feel that putting monetary value to things is not inherently bad because it helps us see more obviously or clearly how valuable something might be but I appreciate you admitting to being confused. I also feel clueless and honestly a little bit hopeless in terms of being unable to take big action on this topic (water and land ownership) as an individual. I hope we can keep learning and hopefully our ideas keep getting clearer.