Seeing through the complexity. On Earth's ecosystem | Barbara Pietrzak | TEDxUniversityofWarsaw

Our brains evolved at the time when mankind’s ecological footprint was marginal. Now with humans freely shaping the surface of the Earth the understanding of the global impact of our behaviour is needed. The complexity of ecological interactions is immense and ecologists use most advanced computational tools to uncover and understand their functioning. And while they do, it is enough for us to turn to the very basics of the economy of nature to guide our everyday choices. Barbara Pietrzak, a scientist working at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Warsaw, describes how changing our diet may save the world’s ecosystem and why lowering meat consumption is the single best way to address the challenging ecological concerns.

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A great talk about the fragility of ecosystems.