157) The vital role of our wetlands in balancing our planetary health and climate with Max Finlayson
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
As the President of the Society of Wetland Scientists and an advisor to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, wetland ecologist Max Finlayson has participated in global environmental assessments and site-based appraisals and written extensively on wetland management. Notably, he has expertise on the relationship and interconnectedness of water pollution, agricultural impacts, invasive species, climate change, human well-being, and our wetlands.
On this podcast episode, Max sheds light on how cities were often built on flood plains and wetlands where the flooding was essential to supporting their biodiversity of life; why the preservation and restoration of our wetlands are key to stabilizing our climate; how wetlands impact people's livelihoods and our public health; and more.
Episode notes: www.greendreamer.com/157
Weekly solutions-based news: www.greendreamer.com
Support the show: www.greendreamer.com/support
Instagram: www.instagram.com/greendreamerpodcast
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
| 0:07.9 | podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those |
| 0:13.7 | considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out. |
| 0:26.8 | We need your direct support in order to continue this podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | And you can help us out so, so much through a paid substack subscription to my newsletter at |
| 0:37.3 | camaya.substack.com or through a one-time |
| 0:40.4 | donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so |
| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:53.9 | We can't just return everything back. I'm not saying that either. But we need to look at our |
| 0:58.5 | urban planning and put our drainage and our storm protection and the biodiversity values in |
| 1:04.2 | there back together to enable people to leave, enable people to get benefits and not have |
| 1:09.6 | some of these problems because we've taken the wetlands out. |
| 1:14.2 | How much of our flood zones are flood zones? Because there were supposed to be wetlands |
| 1:19.4 | where that flooding of freshwater actually was necessary to support the biodiversity of life there. |
| 1:25.8 | Why are the preservation and restoration of our wetlands key to stabilizing our planetary |
| 1:31.4 | health and climate? |
| 1:33.6 | That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today. |
| 1:36.7 | Green Dreamer is a listener-supported show, and I need your help to be able to continue doing |
| 1:40.7 | this work. |
| 1:41.6 | If it's become a regular part of your routine or if it's inspired |
| 1:44.7 | you in any way and you're able to support Green Dreamers starting at just $1 per month, you can head |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kaméa Chayne, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Kaméa Chayne and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.