This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Design to Conserve Nature" created on May 13, 2020, discussing the necessity of valuing and conserving nature to ensure human survival. The dialogue between two speakers explores the idea of designing systems to conserve nature and mitigate self-imposed environmental problems.
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You know, I don't think it's a.
Choice of whether we're going to ultimately value nature. I think it is an inevitable, inexorable necessity.
As in, if we fail to do.
It, we will be the first species to have designed our own demise. Okay, that's an incredible thing. We don't have big claws and camouflage and hairy pelts and the things that nature provides to so many other species.
We have our brains. That's all we have. That is the only evolved piece of our entire being that is of any.
Use in ensuring our longevity and the survival of our species.
And if we neglect to use it to manage in a sustainable way those things that give us security to eat and drink and breathe and thrive, then we of our own will, will be the only species known to have designed our own demise. And so since we have designed systems which do put a value on nature.
It puts a value on exploiting nature, on extracting nature, on destroying nature.
We can also design to conserve nature to, to use nature as an ally.
In enhancing our quality of living, to.
Use nature as an ally in mitigating.
The problems that have been self imposed. So it's not like some people look.
At it and go, well, what a.
Radical theory to create valuation and market pricing for natural capital. And I would say having grown up in Texas and been part of the energy industry my whole life, we actually.
Do this all the time. We value a tree, we value it as lumber.
And if we not valuing it as.
Lumber, we value it as worthless or potential lumber. The only question is whether we're actually.
Going to value it for what we scientifically know.
It can provide to us a source.
Of respiration and transpiration, a source of.
Oxygen production unlike any machinery we could.
Possibly devise, a source of sequestration unlike.
Anything we have yet to biomimic.
And so it's sort of a foolhardy.
Mission to say let's take away those.
Miraculous beings that coexist with us in symbiosis. Let's remove symbiosis to make it harder for our species to thrive.
So since we've imposed this design and.
Designed a market system, designed a tragedy.
Of the commons, of course we can.
Design a remedy of the commons. But that's why I go back to this Berlin Wall thing.
I'm of the belief that we can, we can solve big intractable problems.
We can preempt our own worst tendencies to destroy ourselves or erode our capacity or live with hostility. And in this case, we actually don't have a choice we just have to execute, and fast.
