It's Monday, March 19th, 2018, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Andrei Viscontas.

And I'm Kishor Hari.

Each week, we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.

We endeavor to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it all matters.

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Last week, we talked to Mark Jacobson at Stanford University

about the possibility of using renewable energy for 100% of our

energy needs in the next, oh, I don't know, 20, 30, 40 years. And we came up to the idea that, yes,

even though the science potentially is possible there, the politics might not be. We just, as a world,

might not be ready to make such drastic changes. This week's

interview is the opposite. We talked to a person who starts with the politics first in order to

aid and help the world survive the coming onset of climate change and of course all the ways

in which habitats have been destroyed already by human intervention.

So this week I talked to Rhett Butler, who founded a website called manga bay.com, which now is more

than just a website. It's actually a new source for people who are interested in conservation.

Rhett spent a lot of time as a kid traveling with his parents to all kinds of far-off places,

and he became really interested in rainforests in particular and really saddened by the fact

that rainforests are being destroyed by humans.

So as part of his work, he now, actually in most of his work now, he works not only to

track how rainforests are being destroyed,

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