The Economist (US), May 19th, 2007
Conservationists--and polar bears--should heed the lessons of economics
"NO SCIENCE in the world is more elevated, more necessary and more useful than economics." That was the view of Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish naturalist, born three centuries ago this week, who is better remembered for devising the system used to this day to classify living organisms.
Linnaeus sought to reveal what he saw as the divine order of the natural world so that it might be exploited for human benefit. He lived at a time when exploration and trade were bringing new specimens to the attention of European scientists. ...
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