My book wrestles with the global justice implications of the biodiversity crisis. If we are persuaded that there is a looming crisis and that we have reasons for serious concern about it, we ought to think seriously about what fair and inclusive responses might look like. I try to show that the nature of our biodiversity conservation policies will have serious implications for global justice: those policies could make existing problems of poverty and exclusion worse, or they could, perhaps, help tackle them.
It is difficult politically because most extant biodiversity lies in countries of the global South, in contrast to where privilege is concentrated—in the global North. The idea that each country should bear the burdens of conserving its biodiversity won't do. We are still living in a world marked by colonialism, racism, and various other forms of injustice, and these have influenced prior conservation efforts.
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