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Interview with Ben  Rawlence: Recording  Time Stamps
5:00  Radical hope and clear eyed awareness.
2 degrees means awful things  but also opportunity  to reconsider  our  ways, and embrace our roles as guardians of nature - re- entangle with nature.

8:12 New  ways of looking and seeing. Ancient and some modern with  huge datasets  re  future impacts. Biochemical research on trees, we have characterized so few.

9:15  See forest as a garden and laboratory, change in perspective, "timber is the least valuable thing in the forest."

Travel writing, Adventures with Characters.

Seven Chapters, Seven Species, Seven Stops Around the World in the Boreal

10:15  Wales The Yew Tree in Ben's back yard. Simple questions: Why is that tree in that place?
How long has it been here?
Ice Age, reminders of the patterns vegetation on earth and time scale of 2000 or 8000 years. Long time scales.

13:43  Scotland story here is deforestation. Treeless landscape.  Aventure to find small patch of old pines.

15:34 Norway - Finmark, top of Europe. Different story  of "afforestation." Birch used to be in the valleys, now it is zooming up into the tundra. Lapland nomads way of life hu

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