Ruth DeFries on 'Scaling Up' at The Breakthrough Dialogue 2024

"Re-Thinking The Scaling Up Obsession" delivered by Ruth DeFries in Sausalito, California on June 20, 2024 at The Breakthrough Dialogue, "The Death of Environmentalism."

Ruth DeFries is a professor of ecology and sustainable development at Columbia University in New York and co-founding dean of the Columbia Climate School.

The Breakthrough Institute is a global research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

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The way you present is idiosyncratic. Nature isn't a perfect system, what looks like an organized well designed bottom to top system is thriving because of its own limited success, the ecological equilibrium we have to day is the result of exploitation in the past.