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    How Much Is a Living Elephant Worth?

    One question for Ralph Chami, assistant director at the International Monetary Fund. The post How Much Is a Living Elephant Worth? appeared first on Nautilus.
    by Lina Zeldovich Feb 27, 2023 3 minutes

    One question for Ralph Chami, a financial economist, assistant director at the International Monetary Fund (currently on sabbatical) and co-founder of Blue Green Future, which aims to protect Earth’s ecosystems by recognizing their true value in our global economy. 

    Photo courtesy of Ralph Chami

    How much is a living elephant worth?

    ow much would you pay an elephant to be an elephant? Or a whale to be a whale? It may seem like a funny question, but humans have a strange way of valuing nature. We don’t have

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