This TED talk completely blew me away last month. I urge you to watch it. You might even allow yourself to feel optimistic about our ability to solve seemingly insoluble environmental challenges.
A barel of laughs he 'aint, but Willie Smits is a truly extraordinary man. He managed to re-grow and rejuvenate a destroyed ecosystem in Borneo by taking an incredibly sophisticated, multi-disciplinary approach involving education, engineering, economics, agriculture, biology...
The brilliance of his systems thinking, his sheer ingenuity, the breadth of knowledge needed to spin together such a complex web of interconnected elements and bring a patch of rainforest back from the dead is utterly breathtaking.
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