Half-Earth

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Um, his book Half-Earth is a direct call for a massive collective exercise in species humility.

We're just one of millions of species, one member of a broader biological community that does not belong to us, we belong to it.

And one thing about humility and human is they both derive from the Latin root humus, meaning earth or ground.

In fact, it's really important that we not only understand which places are most important to species, but how people in those places have also lived with them sustainably and to support their management, including especially amongst indigenous communities who are, after all, the original conservationists of our time.

So how, how would it work? Uh, if, you know, if your, your country or half your country is declared to be in the 50%, what happens?

Well, the, the premise of Half-Earth is to know everything we can about the species of a place, and to use that knowledge to identify the network of places that should be prioritized for conservation in order to protect the most species globally.

Now, we talked a little bit about why half.