The Guardian view on pricing the Great Barrier Reef: a dangerous absurdity | Editorial

There are things that money just can’t measure, and nature is valuable because it can’t have a priceThere are some things that money can’t buy; there are others that it can but shouldn’t. The boundary between these two categories isn’t fixed and is in any case constantly disputed. Some things can’t be bought because they seem impossible, like a return ticket to the moons of Jupiter, or a live woolly mammoth. But it’s perfectly possible that technology wi