Climate Science - A Scientist and an Advocate for the Forest

Suzanne Samard is both a scientist and an outspoken advocate for the forest. In your academic papers you read like a scientist, but in your TED talks you adopt a very different voice. You ascribe motives and meanings to trees which shifts the discussion out of purely factual realm into a more emotional space. It hasn't been an easy path because I do get a lot of backlash from my scientific colleagues," she says.