George Monbiot SPERI Annual Lecture at The University of Sheffield

The lecture is entitled 'The Pricing of Everything'. In this lecture George will address what he sees as a growing attempt to reduce political decisions of all kinds to a narrow, financial cost-benefit analysis. He will discuss the threat that he thinks this poses to democracy, considering such issues as privatisation and commodification, payments for ecosystem services, biodiversity offsets and claims by some government departments to have identified 'the true value' of nature and of time. He will explore the worrying ways by which core human values get shifted in the framing of political discourse. This video includes the Q&A session.

The lecture is entitled 'The Pricing of Everything'. In this lecture George will address what he sees as a growing attempt to reduce political decisions of all kinds to a narrow, financial cost-benefit analysis. He will discuss the threat that he thinks this poses to democracy, considering such issues as privatisation and commodification, payments for ecosystem services, biodiversity offsets and claims by some government departments to have identified 'the true value' of nature and of time. He will explore the worrying ways by which core human values get shifted in the framing of political discourse. This video includes the lecture only.

The lecture is entitled 'The Pricing of Everything'. In this lecture George will address what he sees as a growing attempt to reduce political decisions of all kinds to a narrow, financial cost-benefit analysis. He will discuss the threat that he thinks this poses to democracy, considering such issues as privatisation and commodification, payments for ecosystem services, biodiversity offsets and claims by some government departments to have identified 'the true value' of nature and of time. He will explore the worrying ways by which core human values get shifted in the framing of political discourse.

The lecture is entitled 'The Pricing of Everything'. In this lecture George will address what he sees as a growing attempt to reduce political decisions of all kinds to a narrow, financial cost-benefit analysis. He will discuss the threat that he thinks this poses to democracy, considering such issues as privatisation and commodification, payments for ecosystem services, biodiversity offsets and claims by some government departments to have identified 'the true value' of nature and of time. He will explore the worrying ways by which core human values get shifted in the framing of political discourse. This includes the introduction from Prof Tony Payne, and questions from the audience.