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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Is Nature Resilient to a Crisis?
Fascinating. It is very interesting, and i spoke to someone recently, talked about, in america, pima would only give the money to rebuild o the same quality and standards of previous structure after crisis. And but does nature do that kind of resilience as well, when it goes through a crisis, actually become somehow more resilient? Well, if we look at the whole of the whole tree of life, we see shocks that then lead to a different, a, a different outcome. For example, o the age of the the dinosaurs, there were shocks from a, you know, from thea asteroids, and an wiping out the the Dinosaurs,. So that's what nature
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