Mobile Technology: The New Face of Conservation?
Complete video at: fora.tv Peter Kareiva, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses how mobile technology and social networks can be leveraged to foster climate change awareness and inspire the next generation of conservationists. Kareiva envisions an app that would allow users to photograph, geotag and share pictures of wildlife affected by Earth’s shifting climate. —– As chief scientist of one of the most highly respected conservation organizations, The Nature Conservancy, Peter Kareiva is surprisingly radical. „Look,“ he says, „we’re in nature. The deal is how to work with it and how to help it work for us. The better we are at ensuring that people get nature’s benefits, the better we’ll be at doing conservation.“ Through his insistence on „evidence-based conservation,“ he finds most ecosystems far less fragile than people think and none that can be protected as pristine, because pristine doesn’t exist any more. His focus is on working the human/nature interface for maximum benefit to both. Kareiva is co-founder of the Natural Capital Project — allying with Stanford University and the World Wildlife Fund to measure the economic value of ecosystems — and co-author of the new textbook, Conservation Science: Balancing the Needs of People and Nature.
@JennyFarlopez My response: watch?v=9yyGfR8UCgI
@SomethingSea1 Scientific facts are not open to discussion. Besides, I don’t understand why you Americans only seem interested in denying climate change and evolution. I yet have to find an „electron mass denier“ or a „third law of thermodynamics skeptic“. Surprisingly it’s only when money is involved, that so many people are „skeptic“ about something.
And, of course, it’s not like you really know the subject. You just parrot what you are told without understanding a single word.
Oh great, so because I disagree with something you said, I therefore watch Faux News? Nice.
You can spend your entire life on a subject and be entirely wrong. Take Creationists for example. They’ve spent their entire lives studying the subject. Does that make them any less dead wrong?
P & T -
Global Warming: watch?v=9Yb56lLnyyE
Environmental Hysteria: watch?v=2DX3lZ8peBU
Recycling: watch?v=zzLebC0mjCQ
Holocaust:
watch?v=l07Dv7H7cbg (link in descrip)
(not denier) watch?v=tXgQTuP41Lo
@SomethingSea1 And I have to listen to you because surfing five minutes a day on climate change denial websites and watching Faux News makes you smarter than all the scientists who spend their lives studying the subject?
@JennyFarlopez Global Warming is a centuristic phenomena and we aren’t the cause of it. The holocaust is exaggerated. Great combining that with obvious falsehoods. Makes you very PC.
I think it’s a great idea for the LONG term but… in the short term, we won’t have any reliable history of the farthest ANY animal has ever ventured in ANY direction… We would have constant broadcasts of the farthest north Bird X has ever been REGARDLESS of whether Bird X was ACTUALLY starting to travel farther north than it had ever traveled before.
People would rather look at lolz cats.
Oh, America! Land of creationism and Global Warming denial. What’s next? The Earth is flat? The holocaust never happened? Cigarettes cure lung cancer?
Please, continue amusing us with your wacko preachers and your right wing corporate agendas!
@ckairnes68 Dismissing the scientific process based on your own intuition is arrogant at best. „How would anyone know if a species of bird had never been as far north before or not?“ That’s exactly the kind of long-term, macroscopic and fine-grained data gathering that he’s talking about. Finally, what does any of this have to do with „liberalism“?
„I think he is an idiot for saying that.“ You know, cell phones are vital in today’s day and age, but back when they first came out, loud douche bags owned them and everyone associated cell phones with being a dick, so now, 25 years later, with a new emerging technology: The tablet, being embraced by these self proclaimed individualists who are seen as dense consumerists, and yet, he is an idiot for making an observation that has been seen throughout time, new technology needs to find its place.
Jesus fucking christ, don’t these motherfuckers have anything better to talk about?
is that lewis black? lol
bit silly
@ckairnes68 You claim „liberalism is a form of mental retardation“ but yet you overlook data of what over 90% of scientist believe and have proven. With all the people of the whole world that believe as you do, the vast majority of them are from the right-wing in America. Scientist are saying that because of mass pollution we are accelerating the climate change. The mass pollution has destroyed entire species and ecosystems, it’s been proven. Why in the world would you turn away from those facts
more propaganda
Why does this seem more like advertising than something that will definitely cause social/environmental change…sell more phones and save the planet???
What a load of crap. Climate change has been going on forever. To say that it is because of us is an arrogant statement at best. How would anyone know if a species of bird had never been as far north before or not? This is more proof liberalism is a form of mental retardation.
i dont like these titles
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