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Dec 8, 2005
"If we sell you the land, you must remember that it is sacred, and you must teach your children that it is sacred and that each ghostly reflection in the clear water of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." --Chief Seattle
The Value of Earth
How much is the earth worth? Ecological economist Robert Constanza estimates that the services the earth provides humans is worth $33 trillion, a figure greater than the annual gross national products of all the world's economies combined.