🧵1/9 Climate restoration/ecosystem restoration: two strands of the essential golden thread of a new economy and new civilizations that we should now be fast building.

And they need massive focus over the next 7 yrs, supplementing stringent conservation+ climate protection. Scene from Hope in a Changi...
2/9 Climate restoration is much newer: ecosystem-based strategies+technologies to remove CO2+oxidize methane, the most dangerous and shorter-lived molecule. This movement and its youth activists can learn from the older, more established ecosystem restoration networks +activists. Scene from Back to our Futu...
3/9 To be honest: as a biodiversity, ecosystem+ climate scientist I thought we’d be smarter than to overrun our planet so badly, still bickering about whether we really are. But clearly we haven't been smarter. #eventsareovertakingus So we have to get real about root causes. Image
4/9 And here we are: in undeniable #EarthOvershoot when our numbers+appetites are overwhelming all our good works. All our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, plastic pollution, social inequities, urban crowding, addiction will fail, until we admit that Smog in Mexico City. Photo ...
5/9 Conservation+climate protection are always smarter,wiser,cheaper,simpler than restoration. But #conservationbusinessasusual+ #climatebusinessasusual are no longer enough. We need to restore, as well as protect our climate +ecosystems. It's a leadership+economic opportunity. Community activists, citize...
6/9 So I feel it's past time to bring both the longer established #ecosystemrestoration and newer #climaterestoration global networks together, to accelerate progress massively in this most crucial #UNDecadeofEcosystemRestoration. Local communities played a ...
7/9 Our global documentary on ecosystem based climate restoration aims to start the discussions. The world doesn’t have to be this way, or end this way – we can change it. Climate mitigation, adaptation+restoration are the cooking pot's 3 legs. Join us. backtoourfuture.net

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Jul 14, 2022
🧵I am still hopeful. But I'm angry and impatient.

1. Working hard for 34 yrs globally + in Africa - climate change+biodiversity science, policy, strategic nat'l development +global ecosystems, I know a few things about society.

And I'm angry that events are overtaking us.🧵 Image
2. I’m angry that we knew the basics of our looming crises 50+ yrs ago, when I was a small child, yet let slick lobbyists corrupt and capture our governments. What we see in USA, Australia, Canada and the UK is no better than what happened in South Africa with Zuma+the Guptas.
3. I’m angry that in 2022 - w max 7.5 years to 2030, which we scientists identified as the fundamental crossroads for humanity, a stable climate+stable planet, we still don’t talk of the root causes: population+ hyperconsumption, intersected by inequity, greed, corruption.
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