Episode 147: Professor Ruth DeFries on lessons from the natural world on how to deal with environmental crises.
The Sustainability Agenda
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The Bottom of Decentralized Ideas in Water Conservation Technology
indigenous peoples have a very good track record of actually, of conservation. And i think in the worldo fire management, that this is now being recognizedand more generally as well. Some people argue that a lot of the big conservation initiatives very often involve removing indigenous peoples from their own lands. Well, i don't want to over romantiise, but i think when those peoples who have lived with their land and lived with their the resources that they need to rely on for a long time,. have developed some extremely ingenious ways on thinking about in water conservation technologiesfrom very ancient parts of t world.
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