Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

And how quickly are we going to implement them?

And how justly are we going to implement them?

That's going to decide what kind of world we get.

I'm so old school.

I'm like, could we protect and restore wetlands?

Talk about it.

They absorb three to five times more carbon per acre than a tropical forest.

They're protecting our shorelines.

They are habitat for so many other species.

And they can actually, like, grow in some cases to keep up with rising sea levels.

How do you do it?

They're dope.

You just protect them.

And, like, you can restore them, like, replant.

But there's, like, 15% of the original wetlands that are still intact today.

In the New York area.

And that bit that was left prevented over $600 million in damage.

So like it really matters that we do that, that we protect and restore those ecosystems.

And yes, I love solar panels and electric cars and like.

networked geothermal like I'm not anti technology those solutions are incredibly valuable and we need to build more transmission lines and like battery storage and all of it right but nature is a huge part of the solution and we often forget that and our food system as well like