All values are based ultimately on a healthy ecology. It must be kept healthy. All the true costs of any technological process must be internalized even if it means assigning arbitrary dollar values to aesthetic resources. Value systems are the driving variables in all economic systems, not just peripheral attachments. And patriarchal nations are devaluing these values and cultural wisdom with their dominant abstract, quantitative economics.
Economic objectives have to include new concepts of value.
A new economic system will have to capture values unimagined by most economists. It may calculate the potential of possible plant products from Amazon basin, or the value of forest susseration here in the Northwest. As soon as species and habitats can be shown to have more value in their saving than in their destruction, they may be saved.