Global Earth Repair Conference

Dahr Jamail is a brilliant journalist that earned his first fame when he was one of the pioneers to "jump in" to covering the Iraq war in a way that the mainstream media was *not*. We now know the history of how that played out. Here he warns us - this is the scary presentation - thank you for being here for this. This is why we need to work so hard, now, on all the awesome stuff we've been looking at for solutions. It's still important to get a baseline of what we're really looking at - and then get active locally to make a global change. Since the Iraq war ended, he's been traveling the planet interviewing, getting involved and hearing stories from scientists and indigenous leaders about climate change and ecosystem degradation - two phenomena that go hand in hand with human misuse of land and resources. The truth, according to his research, is that some amount of catastrophic climate change is "baked in" to the system at this point and regardless of what we do to curb emissions, we will experience drastic effects in the coming decades, or longer if we don't act quickly. While this work focuses primarily on ecosystem loss as a result of climate change, presumably from excessive fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from industry, he also mentioned and we also know that habitat degradation from land misuse *also* releases greenhouse gases, that again perpetuate the climate change cycle. It's a vicious circle! We still believe that, combined with energy technology changes to reduce fossil fuels, ecosystem restoration is *the* strongest tool we have to reduce the effects of climate change *now* and this will create more resilience for humans *and* ecosystems in the coming years. Thank you for your work, Dahr! Thank you for listening, folks! Please check out Dahr Jamail's website here (http://dahrjamail.net) and if you like what we do getting these videos out there, support us here. (http://patreon.com/globalearthrepair) Thanks are due to Kevin Tomlinson for the production of this podcast: https://crazywisefilm.com/