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Biodiversity is the key to life on Earth and reviving our damaged planet, says ecologist Thomas Crowther. Sharing the inside story of his headline-making research on reforestation, which led to the UN's viral Trillion Trees Campaign, Crowther introduces Restor: an expansive, informative platform built to enable anyone, anywhere to help restore the biodiversity of Earth's ecosystems.
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Countries: Alright let’s start this plan
Other Countries: After you
@privat privat So if I don’t agree with you I don’t understand.
If you don’t know it takes days to drive across northe America and is fill with vast untouched land, but if we are talking about being smarter ok…. completely flipping the table, well thats a serious issue and putting people into poverty will lead to the biggest mortality rate issues in history, the “Great Depression” would be a cake walk to over 500 million people into poverty. Lunatics running us into the ground! Wake up fools! Oh wheres China, India, Russia any African country, hows their biosphere doing!? GTFOH.
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@privat privat As you were so nice as to inform me that I did not understand, I deleted the answer I had given you, but i do not understand.
@privat privat English matters, when did that start?
An RTS that gamifies this in the same way we Plague inc. plays kids could feel more passionately about the high level process this involves while creating grass roots camps that get kids out and planting.
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Don’t need machine learning or to scream “climate change” to tell you to replant trees
But it can help to plant the right trees in the right place.
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Before restoring, we need to stop the damage!
The damaging crime is being commited by the animal agriculture field. THAT is destroying the Amazon rainforest and many other forests around the world. Fight to stop animal exploitation and there will maybe be a space for recover later.
Golden comment brotha;I’m also working on restoration projects!r u interested?
Why “before”? This may be true locally – if your house is on fire you start restoration by putting the flames out, first. But…! it’s easy to read your comment like you’d want any such restoration to be put on hold, until all damage around the world is stopped. There’s no such link between the two – they can and should and must happen in parallel. I think the person made really clear that this is just one of the initiatives needed to cure our relationship with the planet we live in.
I have a idea what about goverment taking tree tax from the people and giving job to homeless for planting tree and taking care of it
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I read somewhere, that hemp pulls more carbon into the ground.
Do you smoke weed?
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@SAW what does this have to do with hemp? Hemp has 1000’s of other uses than to burn it.
Why is he staring into my soul. I feel uncomfortable.
Practice eye contact
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I’m a student who is confused about what course to opt for in college, at present I consider wildlife biology can sm1 tell abt nature related courses that will have high potential in the future??
do whatever ur heart tells u! and stay passioned !
Sustainable agriculture
you’re not alone…
We need more tree in USA and EU than any other places….epic if you understand it.
Despite the economic crisis,now is still the best time to start up an investment
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In few months or no time people will definitely be kicking themselves in regret for missing the opportunity to buy or invest in crypto
Gold+Bitcoin are the right place to be (and until the dust settles)
The fluence and the excitement of this speech are mind-blowing. I really enjoyed it.
It’s one thing to know the association between wildlife and a humans well being and actually experiencing it. I grew up in a part of FL where I was surrounded by wildlife, our family garden is wild. I really took for granted the sounds of the rain hitting the trees that surround our house and the birds chirping in the morning. When I left to study in NY… I found my self unable to sleep, feeling anxious, I had to set my Alexa up play those noises for me, but it really isn’t the same. Every time I visit home I can’t wait for the days it rained and the sound of the birds, and digging my hand in the soil to plant new fruits or other plants. I loved this video so much because I wish other people knew how important the string is to our life and everything around it… most importantly our wildlife ❤️
I love how PASSIONATE this man is in being an earth hero
Ugh, really enjoyed this Ted Talk, Thomas Crowther you have a way of speaking! I love the emphasis of it’s bigger than just companies/leaders getting involved it’s EVERYBODY. Today is the day to do something! I love that message cause it’s important. People always tell me “why difference does it make if I don’t engage?” it makes all the difference. We got to change that mindset and move forward together for a better sustainable change.
Anyone know when Restor is going to be available to the public? I’m super excited for it but I can’t find it.
73 people didn’t like this? WHY?
The one thing that the pandemic has exposed is how important Local activism is, take care of yourself and the “globe” will follow.
Eee nature is diverse enough by itself, just leave it more less alone
Because of the pandemic, we now have proof of just how much our “activity” damages the enviroment. Everyone that looked outside in April and May and smelled the air, watched the waters, and witnessed wildlife on our streets cannot deny anymore just how much impact we do on our planet.
In the coming years I hope we will see (more) action done in the direction of Ecology, instead of the direction of Economy.