Human society depends on services performed by natural systems. These ecological services include maintaining the atmospheric gas balance and producing food, fiber, and other building materials. Efforts must be made to protect the delivery of ecosystem services because they are essential to the sustainable use of the planet. The best way to encourage policy that protects ecosystem services is to make the linkages between ecosystem services and human quality‐of‐life easy to understand for any citizen.
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