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Peter Raven: 'Hero Of The Planet'

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Sustainablog
18 July 2005 - 6:00am

Botanist Peter Raven, author of more than 480 books and papers and Director of Missouri Botanic Gardens talks about ecosystems and sustainable growth.

"botanists such as Raven begin with the big picture of sustainable growth and can calculate to the nearest planet how much land and sea it would take to sustain the population of the world if everybody lived as comfortably as the Americans, British or French. The answer is..."

Full Story: Ringing the alarm for Earth
Source: The Guardian Unlimited, July 14, 2005
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Ecological theory would suggest a balance, that we, to the health of all concerned, think about with the plants and animals serving one another equally in a dynamic balance slowly changing through evolutionary time.
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