Save The Forests To Save The Planet | Anastassia Makarieva
Save The Forests To Save The Planet | Anastassia Makarieva
Theoretical physics is proving forests are the lungs and beating heart of the planet—so why aren't we doing more to protect them?
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What’s theoretical physics got to do with trees? Everything.
Life on this planet is in grave danger. While life does what it can to self-regulate (breaking the second law of thermodynamics to do so), when environments become disturbed beyond repair, the “biota” breaks down exponentially. To physicist Anastassia Makarieva, this is the reality of climate change.
Anastassia has dedicated her life to understanding the biota and, more specifically, how the world’s forests regulate not just themselves but the water system of the entire planet. Alongside her colleagues, Anastassia is desperately trying to raise awareness of the dangers of disturbing the world’s forest, especially the Boreal forest, which despite being the largest on the planet is often forgotten about.
She says stopping logging overnight would have the biggest impact on reducing climate change. So why isn’t anyone listening?
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Save The Forests To Save The Planet | Anastassia Makarieva
Quickly, because I did study Austrian Economics (free market economy idea) in the early eighties, in simple terms, the concept of money and debt was the cause of over consumption of the biota (not in their words, but that fits my understanding). These early books (back then little or no fossil fuels to prop up the economy) on this subject these authors were very concerned about the boom then collapse of economies, and they did understand the concept of the biota.
Of course, they believe Gold to be the most stable form of money mainly because if its scarcity, that scarcity kept the economic value at a low level.
Today, we do not have a free market economy. We have monopoly money debt system and free market capitalism which abhors the free market economy. The elite controllers are fascists, their primary directive is the higher level of destruction, the more of the surplus they can siphon off, the higher the profits. Lots of people now are depending on these monetary flows, you know...
Anyway, takes a bit to get used to the accent, this person is on point in my view.
Fascinating interview with incredible scientist. I’ll be planting more trees this winter!