🧵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. 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.

🧵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.🧵 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.