{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Flanigan's Eco-Logic","title":"Tim Christophersen - The Urgent Need to Fix Our Relationship with Mother Earth","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1864,"description":"Tim Christophersen has just released a book titled \"Generation Restoration\" that provides a roadmap, and conditional optimism, for fixing our relationship crisis with Mother Nature. Its forward by Jane Goodall provides guiding perspectives such as how our global society has shifted from taking resources as we \"need\" them to \"greed\" and over use. Goodall also posits that while humans may be the most intellectual creatures on Earth, we are certainly not the most intelligent... as we are destroying our home and sole planet. Tim pushes back on this. He is clear, rational, and hopeful: The current generation on Earth has the tools and the capacity to fix our ills and care for nature and our Earth.\nTim and Ted discuss one of the book's themes... shifting baselines. Tim presents a picture of charter boats taking groups fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Same spot, two pictures, and 50 years apart. Today's catch is paltry. Fifty years ago, some of the catch was larger than humans. Tim describes that we have become accustomed to less fish in the sea, less biodiversity, isolated wildlife, more pollution, etc. Over time, we have succumbed to a lessened baseline of expectation: a lessened Mother Earth, nature on the ropes. This has to change, notes Tim. \nGeneration Restoration is a call to action. It's about solutions. Tim asks for \"eco-literacy.\" Just as we as a global society have become literate with the internet and communications, digital literacy, now is the time for us to understand the language of ecology. We must become eco-engineers to create a tipping point of social change. And, our lives will not be lesser. Our quality of life will improve as we restore on a planetary scale. We must all, or at least many of us, says Tim, become vital ecosystems engineers. We can have a new outlook on life through restoring nature and experiencing its rich bounty of benefits.\nTim talks about oysters and eels, how these species were once abundant. New York was once rich with oysters...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7kUbICrzk0aEuZffrVBGprBuBqZJlmqp9h-fda_2pHg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM1MTQ0LzE3MTE1/NjgzMTctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}