9.30.2016

Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest


TED 2009
Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest (script)
Barry Schwartz introduced this TED Talk also in his Talk: Our loss of wisdom.
This is the best talk I recently read.
Summary
There is a problem which is the deforestation in our world. I ashamedly thought that the solution was only stopping to cut trees and waiting to restore there. The true solution is that people who are cutting trees to exploit forests can get again benefits. It is because benefits they got  is to already turn to break there, increase victims but they are also victims.
The deforestation took all away. There's only yellow terrain where was no agricultural productivity. All wildlife disappeared. There, half of people can't have jobs but no drinking water and don't have money to buy it. It only extents poor areas. From there, the project the speaker built started.
The project created jobs for them and planed enough to changed the climate of those area. There's no flooding and no fires there and you can see a huge development of biodiversity there. The first step for this project was to buy that land for them to legally get income. By selling their land, they get income but they get jobs that are the construction, the reforestation, taking care of animals or making handicraft. They also get free land in between the tree and can grow their crops. They can sell it to the project. They get building material, because trees grow there. The sugar palms that were planted to protect from the fire and flood are used for trad. Thus, the project can produce huge amounts of energy there.
Although, there were many things the project did, he talked many times that it is important to make a plan that the local people are able to get benefits to protect people who live in there. The situation that is hopeless can be changed by integrating the various technologies and local people their cooperation, efforts and education. The real key is integration.
Words in this story
restore / return. bring back (a previous right, practice, custom, or situation); reinstate.
integrate / combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole.

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