“Our economy drives deforestation” - Suzanne Simard on protecting our forests
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- When Suzanne Simard discovered that trees could communicate through underground networks of fungi in 1997, her work was largely dismissed.
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But today, as a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia, her work is recognised as pioneering within the scientific community.
In her book ‘Finding Mother Tree’, she explores how forests have ‘hub trees’ that play an important role in plant communication.
In today’s episode of Ways to Change the World, Suzanne looks back at her work, and explains to Krishnan Guru-Murthy how it could help protect forests from climate change.
Produced by Imahn Robertson and Annie La Vespa.
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Fascinating, so inspiring. I heard Suzanne's lecture when she received the Kew medal in April. She was so genuine and articulate. We all need to try and do some of what she suggests and connect more with our natural world of plants, trees, animals
Absolutely fascinating! I hope to hear podcasts like these in the future😊
Wonderful interview, thank you Krishnan and Channel 4, such a treat to hear Suzanne Simard and sense her vision and passion. The per capita annual emission in USA is guess-estimated at 16 tons, at the high end of pricing that Simard mentioned, $1,000/ton, that is $16K per person each year.
Great talk. Really appreciated. ❤
Incredible scientist! Great interview. Thank you
There's a surprisingly prescient and contemporarily relevant seminal passage from Plato on the effects on water sources, which I found in Strangely Like War, a book on modern industrial deforestation I highly recommend.
Amazing information
this woman is my spirit animal
We are in a symbiotic cycle with trees. The real anthropomorphic misinterpretation is thinking other species are essentially without meaningful consciousness: That we are the only species that could possibly be self aware or have complex minds. Also that mind = linguistic thought.
Heck i'm not even sure all humans are self aware.
If only the UK's #ERGTory Govt dreadful line of Environment Ministers, the UK has suffered for the last13 years would listen and learn from this brilliant tree specialist + Scientist. They have done nothing to help our trees + the v few forests that we have left. The same goes for all right wing political parties, worldwide! #EnoughIsEnough #SaveOurTrees !
The council's in England are chopping down all the trees
👏👏👏👏👏
DONCASTER council chopped down nearly all the trees on the street's 😮PATHETIC
I recently received a four sheet official missive that could comfortably have fit on one sheet (by printing on both sides). No kidding, the fourth page said nothing else than "This page is blank, and not a printing error". Personally I don't think I needed notification by post of a cold weather payment anyway.
seria como cereales de ucrania a polonia?? ... pero habría arboles que lo rechazan porque hay un actor mas que esta solventando la comunicacion. .... espero que en las plantas sea menos conflictivo y que se un mundo en el que uno colabora con el otro, respetandolo, sabiendo lo que hace.
Things will get even worse if we start building on the green belt and other rural areas to build more residential and commercial real estate.
everything is alive
Trees have the same genetics as us...they are more alive they we might realise
I bet such conversations between trees have always been rather wooden, haven't they? 👍🤣👍
Corpaerate, private elitest greed drives deforestation.
The Nutter`s Corner
Your not barking up the wrong tree with that subject but, some would think you are barking mad
Soon enough we are all going to eat dirt ...
At this hour i trade all your souls in to save mine,you don't realize lucyfer is a god to you,tell you what yo should do,but there is a righteous god above him,that say,trade them in
these are fortune tellers,mind reasers,but really making up things to get into the media a someone who are capable of telling how the trees spaks.
All that being said, they can spell and write a coherent sentence...
At least the trees are being neighbourly unlike my Romanian neighbours that don't speak English..makes me wonder how they've found employment...at least I guess they're employed, all six of them have a Mercedes each...bet the trees love them.