Nate Hagens

Brett Concairn.

Nate Higgins.

Welcome at long last.

I was so glad I watched your Bioneers talk and that connected us and I've been reading some of your work and I think what you're working on may be at the heart of what I have in mind and the goal of this platform.

Thank you.

I'm looking forward to it.

Let me dive right in.

I'm going to read a quote, something that I saw in your work.

I quote, we cannot stabilize the climate, reverse the loss of species and protect place-based indigenous and traditional cultures without a global movement to regenerate the 50% plus of living system function that has been lost on this planet.

So let's start there.

Can you explain what this number is actually measuring and against what baseline and what do you mean by all that?

So I already have so many questions.

How related is that to the Gaia hypothesis?

And what happened to that 2 billion hectares?

So let's say that someone has a one-acre backyard, which most people don't, and it's all yard with some playground equipment and a barbecue grill.

and very few trees, some small ones and some bushes.

What you're saying is when the sun hits that one acre every year and then the winter comes and then the spring comes and every year there's a biological productivity that grows from that one acre.

And if we average that around the planet, we are 50% lower than historically.

And that that acre, if properly regenerated, or I don't know what the term you would use,

And with a plan in service of growing more biocapacity could on average grow 50% more than it does now.