The writer is a founder of Tehanu, the first interspecies money protocol, and a novelist Is it possible to be a non-human — falcon, yellowwood, moth, gorilla — and participate in the economy, or is the spending of money forever reserved only for humans and algo-trading machines? The COP16 UN biodiversity summit which finished last week in the Colombian city of Cali didn’t answer this question, but financiers will soon have to.
They will also have to do this in a civilisation that has previously registered the value of non-human life only in terms of its processed body parts. Moreover, money flows will have to make their way to the remotest bits of developing nations in the tropics where most biodiversity is located, and the track record on big ticket investments into biodiversity has been lacklustre. The sum total this decade has amounted only to low billions of dollars a year.
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