Renewable Energy players may have been impressed this week by a 606 page tome that emerged out of the UK Government, courtesy of leading UK economist Partha Dasgupta. Essentially it is an attempt to place a measurable value on Nature so that it can hold its own against other economic measures such as GDP growth. The idea is to create a new language with which to discuss the economic damage of climate changing behaviors such as the extraction efforts of fossil fuels, the burning of the Amazon rain forest and the introduction of billions of tons of CO2 into the shared commons of global, breathable air. It is entitled “The Economics of Biodiversity.” Interestingly one of the handful of concrete…