Environment Trade-Off

There are nearly 700,000 street trees in New York City, and all of them— London plane trees, Bradford pears, lindens—are working every hour of every day to sequester carbon dioxide and capture stormwater.

- Samuel Medina

These environmental services generate $110 billion in value per annum. But what is lost when value in the narrowest sense is applied to a thing?

This question is at the heart of