A bold plan to rewild the Earth — at massive scale | Kristine McDivitt Tompkins

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The first step to saving nature is the rewilding of our own minds, says conservationist and former Patagonia CEO Kristine McDivitt Tompkins. With an unwavering commitment to protecting ecosystems, she and her late husband Douglas Tompkins created vast conservation parks across South America that allowed ancient flora and fauna to flourish once again. Now, she's carrying that legacy and mission forward with a bold plan to connect parks across geographic boundaries, creating a system of continental-scale wildlife corridors — before it's too late.

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0:15.6	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:17.6	Christine McDivet Tompkins stepped away as CEO of Patagonia to do crucial work of restoring ecosystems in South America.
0:26.4	In her talk, she explains how the work of restoring land and native species is healing and
0:31.8	crucial as so many creatures face extinction.
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0:52.0	I'm of the first generation in all of human history
0:56.0	to witness the decimation of wild nature
1:00.0	taking place in every corner of the planet.
1:04.8	This isn't a mystery, we know this.
1:07.8	At the end of the day, it's simple mathematics.
1:11.8	We humans expand our footprint, habitat on land and sea, shrink, wildlife, numbers fall, temperatures rise, and human communities suffer.
1:24.4	And this is what keeps me up at night,
1:27.2	but I'm also busy.
1:29.2	Edward Abbey, the godfather of environmental activism, once said,
1:34.0	sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
1:39.0	And for me, the antidote to despair is to act.
1:45.8	And the most direct action at Tompkins Conservation
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