Green Accounting

This book began with a small irritation. A company could report a record profit and, in the same twelve months, quietly drain an aquifer, clear a forest, and pump enough carbon into the sky to outlast the lifetime of everyone who signed off on the annual report. None of that would show up on the balance sheet. The irritation grew into a question: how did a discipline built to track value so completely miss the value of a living planet? This book is an attempt to answer that question, not wi...