In this week\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Bernie Bastien-Olvera, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, about the benefits of ecosystems for humans and the global economy. Bastien-Olvera discusses the types of benefits that ecosystems provide, methods that economists use to estimate these benefits, how climate change is shifting ecosystems and biomes geographically, and why these shifts may have a relatively larger impact on nations in the Global South.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cUnequal climate impacts on global values of natural capital\u201d by B. A. Bastien-Olvera, M. N. Conte, X. Dong, T. Briceno, D. Batker, J. Emmerling, M. Tavoni, F. Granella, and F. C. Moore; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06769-z\n\n\u201cThe Biggest Little Farm\u201d movie; https://www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com/\n\n\u201cPlaneteando de Pelicula\u201d podcast; https://planeteando.org/series/planeteando-de-pelicula/