He's made it very clear that we need a radical change in the way that we do economics, the way we assess the state of our economies across the globe, and that we need to elevate nature as a key element of economic planning, and to recognise, as I know the Minister for the Environment does, that the economy is a subset of nature, not the other way round. Because the RMA enables economic development and use and because economics influences policy, the thinking in the Dasgupta review must influence the drafting of our new Natural and Built Environments Act, because that review shows that by bringing economics and ecology together we can help save nature at what is potentially the last minute, and, by doing so, save ourselves. 