These ecological costs are not considered in the reductionist model of market internalization. A genuine internalization would have to include values beyond those of the market, values that put limits on overexploitation. Given the vast gulf between the rich and poor, market prices, no matter how high they rise, will not introduce limits to exploitation. They will therefore not restrict resource exploitation within ecological limits, but will instead allow resource degradation to continue while aggravating poverty and injustice. Economic growth takes place through the overexploitation of natural resources, creating a scarcity of them in both nature's economy and the survival economy.
Nature shrinks as capital.
The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates. Furthermore, while natural resources can be converted into cash, cash cannot be converted into nature's ecological processes. Those who offer market solutions to the ecological crisis limit themselves to the market, and look for substitutes to the commercial function of natural resources as commodities and raw material. However, in nature's economy, the currency is not money, it is life. The solution seems to lie in giving local communities control over local resources so that they have the right and responsibility to rebuild nature's economy and, through it, their sustenance.