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Ruth DeFries in March 2020 completed a manuscript over five years in the making. It resulted to be both prophetic and prescient. In this document, the Columbia University professor disputed that global crises are now unavoidable due to the interconnectedness and difficulty of our modern civilization.
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Ruth DeFries Concluded Her Project
Just as she concluded the project, as she puts it, all hell broke loose with COVID. That manuscript would turn into a book, published at the end of 2020. These were precisely the kinds of shocks that I was attempting to be persuasive [about], in the book, [when I let the readers know] they could truly happen, DeFries says.
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Five nature-inspired solutions this year
Tue, 29 December 2020
Climate change and biodiversity loss are laying bare our dependence on the natural world for everything from the food we eat to the air we breathe.
But nature also holds the solution to other problems, inspiring scientific discovery in a host of unexpected ways.
Nature is “a source of inspiration for science, because it has figured out the way Earth supports life,” said Lex Amore from the Biomimicry Institute.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec 26 Climate change and biodiversity loss are laying bare our dependence on the natural world for everything from the food we eat to the air we breathe.
But nature also holds the solution to other problems, inspiring scientific discovery in a host of unexpected ways.
Nature is “a source of inspiration for science, because it has figured out the way Earth supports life,” said Lex Amore from the Biomimicry Institute.
Spider Silk, Bamboo Buildings: Nature Holds Unique Solutions to Man-made Problems
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Climate change and biodiversity loss are laying bare our dependence on the natural world for everything from the food we eat to the air we breathe.
But nature also holds the solution to other problems, inspiring scientific discovery in a host of unexpected ways.
Nature is a source of inspiration for science, because it has figured out the way Earth supports life, said Lex Amore from the Biomimicry Institute. It is imperative we look to the biological blueprints that have been successful over millennia to launch groundbreaking ideas faster.