This twilight band is believed to contain 70 per cent of all animal life on Earth. It also performs one of the planet's most important climate functions. Each night, billions of organisms migrate upward to feed near the surface, then return to depth by morning. In doing so, they transport carbon from the atmosphere into the deep ocean, where it can remain sequestered for centuries. Without this biological pump, global temperature targets would already have been exceeded.
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over suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests. And we really need to defuse that bomb by managing our forests and our wildlands in fundamentally different ways.
George Whitesides — TED Radio Hour
Eight of the ten largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.
George Whitesides — TED Radio Hour
oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests, and we really need to defuse that bomb by managing our forests and our wildlands in fundamentally different ways.
George Whitesides — TED Radio Hour