I remember trying (very briefly) to look into what ecosystem services are thought to be most important, and personally I failed to find a justification for the very strong claims you see about them, such as being crucial to survival and so on. For example, if insects disappeared, it seems like we would survive fine on wind-pollinated crops. I came away suspecting motivated reasoning due to people liking “nature” for other reasons.
But I wasn’t able to come to any confident conclusion, so I’m looking forward to finding out what yours was! Very much a topic that could benefit from a critical approach; there seem to be quite a lot of aspects to disentangle.
I’m excited to read this series.
I remember trying (very briefly) to look into what ecosystem services are thought to be most important, and personally I failed to find a justification for the very strong claims you see about them, such as being crucial to survival and so on. For example, if insects disappeared, it seems like we would survive fine on wind-pollinated crops. I came away suspecting motivated reasoning due to people liking “nature” for other reasons.
But I wasn’t able to come to any confident conclusion, so I’m looking forward to finding out what yours was! Very much a topic that could benefit from a critical approach; there seem to be quite a lot of aspects to disentangle.
I know what you mean! I am trying to provide a critical approach and would like to hear what you think of how it turned out.