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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

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

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9661 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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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.

 

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Hey there, this is your host, Kamea. I hope you had a restful holiday season and that your start to this

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1:09.8

We can't just return everything back.

1:11.7

I'm not saying that either.

1:13.3

But we need to look at our urban planning and put our drainage and our storm protection

1:17.2

and the biodiversity values in there back together to enable people to leave,

1:23.2

enable people to get benefits and not have some of these problems because we've taken the

1:27.2

wetlands out.

1:30.0

How much of our flood zones are flood zones? Because there were supposed to be wetlands

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