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| George Monbiot. |
It seems now that gambling on extinction is to become as
common as betting on one horse besting another.
George Monbiot told the Guardian readers that the British
gambling company, Ladbrokes, had been offering odds on the conservation of
various fish stocks.
In the column: “Betting on Extinction”, Monbiot told readers, “Again
and again over the past few decades, our fishing industry has clamoured noisily
to cut its own throat, then responded with astonishment and fury when it
collapses as a result. Is there a clearer example of being blinded to your long-term
interests by short-term greed?”
So
now it seems that in some bizarre sense, we can profit from species extinction,
rather than be clearly worse off.
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