56) A moral obligation to not drive species extinction with award winning author Carl Safina

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

kaméa chayne

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

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Why is it that we need to instill a sense of moral obligation to not be the reason a living species goes extinct? How can we tell more powerful stories around sustainability to actually move people and inspire action?

Carl Safina, Founder of The Safina Center and a biologist, conservationist, award-winning author, speaker, and contributor to NYTimes, NatGeo, HuffPost, etc., shares his wisdom with us here.

HIGHLIGHTS:

[7:33] Kaméa: "Throughout all of your years working in environmentalism, what's been one of your most moving experiences?"

[17:52] How Carl deals with the doom and gloom of working in environmentalism.

[22:52] Carl: "I have an opportunity to let the animals make their own case for the own existence by going and showing how they live, what decisions they make, who their family is, how devoted they are to one another, etc..."

[25:36] Carl's advice for eco-creatives and entrepreneurs.

[26:14] Carl: "What we eat, who we vote for, how we run our homes—these things collectively are what give the world the shape it has."

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1:09.8	So I went to very protected populations of elephants, of wolves, and of killer whales.
1:16.9	And I found in each place, even though they were so protected that they all faced lethal
1:23.8	threats from humans all the time.
1:28.6	Why is it that we need to instill a sense of moral obligation to not cause some species to go extinct?
1:36.4	How can we tell more powerful stories around sustainability to actually move people and inspire
1:42.4	action? That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today.
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