Global Earth Repair Conference

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


Dahr Jamail - The End of Ice - Presentation and Q&A at Global Earth Repair Conference

The Global Earth Repair Conference is about building a grass-roots, locally-managed restoration mass movement to regreen our planet and recarbonize our soil. On May 3-5 2019 in Port Townsend Washington,we brought together over 600 people for three days of education, networking, and collective action - including 160 presenters and panelists that ranged from ecology experts to indigenous elders, permaculture gurus to environmental grief facilitators. Our focus is earth repair, ecosystem restoration and bioremediation - as the quickest and best road to climate stability.

The Global Earth Repair Conference is about building a grass-roots, locally-managed restoration mass movement to regreen our planet and recarbonize 