Maintaining the capacity of ecosystems to provide goods and services is important because
A) most ecosystem services cannot be replicated by any other means.
B) replacing them with technological substitutes is possible only in developed nations
C) technological substitutes take up valuable land.
D) governments cannot function without taxing ecosystem services.
E) It is not important. Humans could survive quite well even if ecosystem services declined greatly.
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A) they
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A) is
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A) the
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A) carbon.
B)
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