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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Thinking Differently About the Rainforests
Description: Listen as Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Dr. Fernando Trujillo and Sam Muller explore how to define and execute new approaches to saving the rainforests
For decades, environmentalists and climate scientists have warned about the catastrophic consequences of the shrinking and erosion of the Amazon and Congo rainforests. Politicians have echoed and amplified the warnings, but have done little of consequence to slow the actual pace at which the rainforests are moving towards tipping points.
The recent UN climate summit in Belem was supposed to change all that. However, it would take an unusually large dose of magical thinking...