Peter Raven: 'Hero Of The Planet'

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

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July 18, 2005, 6:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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..."

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