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121 | Michael Greene: Carbon Cowboy or Lone Ranger Part 2 – The $200 Million Land Heist in the Amazon
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120 | Indonesia is Still Moving its Capitol, and Nobody Cares?
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118 | Kenyan Herders Say Judgement Against Them Based on Forged Signatures / Continuation of Episode 117
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117 | Surviving Survival Internatinal, Part 1: Kenyan Elders Call Foul on International Media, NGOs
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116 | From Ticking Time Bomb to Demographic Dividend: James Mwangi and Kenya's Great Carbon Valley
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115 | Unpacking Donald Trump's Very Weird Environmental Orders
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114 | Michael Greene: Carbon Cowboy or Lone Ranger? Part 1
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113 | The Future of Environmental Finance: Strategies for Biodiversity and Climate Solutions, with David Hill and George Kelly
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112 | Fantasy Football and Dynamic Baselines: New Tools for Impact Assessment
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111 | The False Dichotomy Between Reductions and Removals (Rerun)
057 | COVID-19 and the Value of Resilience over Efficiency
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When US President Donald Trump disbanded his country’s pandemic response team, he did so because “I don’t like having thousands of people around when we don’t need them.”
That cost-cutting measure could cost hundreds of thousands of lives, and it’s a classic example of what happens when we value efficiency over resilience.
What are efficiency and resilience?
Today we draw on the work of Cardiff University Lecturer Paul Nieuwenhuis to find out.
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