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“If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.”

Quote by Ramez Naam

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“In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded.”

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“Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.”

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“That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.”

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“Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.”

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“I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.”

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“By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.”

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“TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable.”

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“Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.”

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