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You're listening to Ted Health, I'm Elise Hugh.

We're confronting one of the biggest challenges for human kind, which is what we humans have

done to the environment.

We're out of balance with nature.

In her talk from Ted at BCG in 2020, DNA synthesizer Emily LaProust proposes ways to get

us back in harmony with nature by embracing synthetic technology.

We as human place constant pressure on our natural world, and in response, nature

fights back to balance the scales.

Nature has been adapting and reacting to the presence of human developments, just like

we've been adapting and reacting to nature.

And nature is still in us, we are on unsustainable path.

It is time to cause correct.

That does not mean abandoning technology, but it means harnessing the power of biology

itself to reconcile the creature comfort of human civilization with our natural world.

Some of you may be thinking, but are we cycle, or I don't admit, or I take the birth

so I grow my own food, and in fact, you may be doing your part to live sustainably.

And if you do, good for you.

In my view though, it's impossible to exclusively rely on an individual effort to make the

changes we need.

We have to make the changes at a global scale to truly make the difference.

And that requires rethinking what modern global sustainability looks like and a new kind

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