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This is Solvable.

I'm Ronald Young, Jr.

You know, religious institutions, the UN estimates they own 8% of habitable land on earth.

The majority shareholder is the Catholic Church. It has 177 million acres.

We need to realize the power of our portfolios. They're a proposition of what we believe in and our values.

They aren't neutral like anything. And when it comes to portfolios of land, developing it,

growing food, building on it, and living on it are the most familiar uses. Molly Burhands is a member

of the Catholic Church. She's also a cartographer and data scientists, and she believes

that land can be used to protect the environment and create a more equitable world.

I don't think anyone should have a global data set of all the world's religions, given that

land and religion are like the two things that we have the most beef about in history,

but also are the two critical leverage points that climate change.

Through her non-profit good lands, Burhan's aims to leverage the power of data to mobilize the church to use its abundance of land assets for the greater good.

She's developing a database to house comprehensive maps of all modern Catholic land assets.

If we all realize the potential of our property and make land work for good.

Biodiversity loss and climate change is a solvable problem.

I am Pentecostal. I grew up a preacher's kid, and I saw something that was interesting about your story, which was that you didn't get serious about your Catholic faith until college,

which was a lot like me, too. I was saved at nine, but I didn't get serious about your Catholic faith until college, which was a lot like me, too.

I was saved at nine, but I didn't really get serious about the church and make a commitment

until somewhere within my mid-20s. I want to say around 24 or 25. Tell me a little bit about

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