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Why are current policies aiming to stop #deforestation doomed to failure? Because we fail to understand people. Read the paper tinyurl.com/ForestAffair via @OneEarth_CP
Last Friday was #Biodiversity2020. The @FAO and @UNEP released the State of the World's Forests report 2020 fao.org/state-of-fores…
#ForNature #SOFO2020
In the 2020 edition, we find that forests cover 4.06 billion hectares. That is nearly 1/3 of the earth land mass (NASA, Picture from Apollo 12, 1969).
The report mentions the rate of #deforestation is slowing down. But for the last 20 years we have lost 5 million hectares per year on average and the trend is stable.
This is without acounting for #wildfires and #diebacks. A burnt forest is still a forest. In 2015 alone, 4% of the world's tropical forests burnt, according to the same report.
The forests of tomorrow are at stake #SDG15
Governments are committing to stop deforestation and restore forest landscapes. bonnchallenge.org/content/challe…
Corporations are pledging to exclude #deforestation from their supply chains. supply-change.org
Social entrepreneurs, local communities and even @MrBeastYT and @LeoDiCaprio are stepping up.
So, why don't we see that in the charts?
Our answer: Because the pledges, policies and intiatives are taken on the basis of a wrong or simplistic understanding of how humans make decision.
We don't understand well human agency. We misrepresent desires, beliefs and aspirations. We are wrong about our common visions.
Landscapes don't happen. We shape them.
It's the way we understand how we make decisions that is at fault. Untill we change that, our efforts will continue to fail.
Good news, there are ways out. Help us spread the word.
Check our paper and let's talk about it. tinyurl.com/ForestAffair
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