Gross National Product-GNP-or more commonly known as GDP is not an accurate means of measuring anything relevant to the wealth of nations, because it only measures economic activity and much of it is detrimental to the real wealth and its origins.its even detrimental to many resources… and the People of those nations thus measured.If we should judge America by that--that GNP counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage.Even more, GNP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play.And that fits well here because it is also my view of todays catastrophic singular focus on money measurement of the economy and of our complete neglect of the environment… and failure to conserve our resources that make up the real wealth and our real global commons.By wasting our natural resources we are diminishing every year both the global commons and our economy in real terms--because these "externalities" matter and our money measurement culture gets the losing end of the bargain daily.Because the real global Commons is made up of three simple entities that cannot be measured in GDP and that are truly indivisible and belong to all of us in equal measure.The Atmosphere.the Planet we live in, and the perfectly balanced Environment that allows us to survive.On the other hand, the worlds economy is just a networked system of financial economic and trade transactions that might or might not affect our lives greatly depending on how much emphasis we put on this real sideshow.We need desperately the tools of worldwide conservation, in the form of environmental common governance, of clean earth, clean air and clean water, emanating.And as people weve faced this issues in the past too and arrived at a system of conserving and protecting the village Green.And weve come up with some interesting institutions to deal with these issues.