53. The Power of Nature with Tom Crowther
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
It's International Biodiversity Day and we're celebrating in style!
We talk with Prof. Dr. Tom Crowther of Crowther Lab, ETH Zürich, who captured the imagination of the world with the idea that our world could support another trillion trees, and how that could restore a new world through carbon drawdown, create a better world with more biodiversity, provide the roadmap to a regenerated world which right now we can only dream of. His research has galvanized many to begin restoration efforts, including the least likely of suspects, Donald J. Trump. What do you do when a climate denier supports your work on climate change? Tom Crowther answers in this episode.
We also discuss the four principles Nature-Based Solutions which, among all the emerging guidelines and standards, are critical for successful restoration and conservation, avoiding "green-washing" of solutions that cover up escalating emissions.
After the interview, Christiana and Clay spring a guess-that-animal-sound game on the rest of the Outrage and Optimism team and one particular host refuses to lose.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to outrage Dickinson. This week we discuss the global moment in biodefers. |
| 0:15.0 | My name's Tom Rivekarnack. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Christina Figueres. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:19.0 | This week we discuss the global moment in biodiversity that we're experiencing. |
| 0:24.6 | We discuss nature-based solutions and we speak to Professor Dr Thomas Crowver |
| 0:28.9 | about the idea of a trillion trees. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:33.0 | So guys, here we are again. |
| 0:38.0 | One week later, later Christina's moved again |
| 0:43.2 | everything else more or less remains the same but there's one question that has been |
| 0:46.9 | bothering me which is why do Paul and I look like we've been dragged through her |
| 0:50.4 | hedge backwards and Christina looks like she's made out ready to go for a dance. |
| 0:54.2 | And Christina is absolutely, there's something very suspicious going on, |
| 0:57.6 | is what I would say. |
| 0:59.1 | Well, maybe I had a haircut. |
| 1:01.6 | Which is illegal in 90% of all countries. |
| 1:06.0 | What on earth are you talking about? |
| 1:08.0 | I do think it's only one manifestation of a general principle which is women are looking still great and men are looking |
| 1:14.0 | increasingly terrible but Christina why are you looking so good? |
| 1:17.0 | Wait a minute, wait a minute, have we ever told... |
| 1:19.0 | Not that you don't always look... |
| 1:20.0 | Have we ever told the listeners? |
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