Dahr Jamail is a brilliant journalist that earned his first fame when he  was one of the pioneers to "jump in" to covering the Iraq war in a way  that the mainstream media was *not*. We now know the history of how that  played out.  Here he warns us - this is the scary presentation - thank you for being  here for this. This is why we need to work so hard, now, on all the  awesome stuff we've been looking at for solutions. It's still important  to get a baseline of what we're really looking at  - and then get active  locally to make a global change.  Since the Iraq war ended, he's been traveling the planet interviewing,  getting involved and hearing stories from scientists and indigenous  leaders about climate change and ecosystem degradation - two phenomena  that go hand in hand with human misuse of land and resources.  The truth, according to his research, is that some amount of  catastrophic climate change is "baked in" to the system at this point  and regardless of what we do to curb emissions, we will experience  drastic effects in the coming decades, or longer if we don't act  quickly.  While this work focuses primarily on ecosystem loss as a  result of climate change, presumably from excessive fossil fuel  consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from industry, he also  mentioned and we also know that habitat degradation from land misuse  *also* releases greenhouse gases, that again perpetuate the climate  change cycle. It's a vicious circle!  We still believe that, combined with energy technology changes to reduce  fossil fuels, ecosystem restoration is *the* strongest tool we have to  reduce the effects of climate change *now* and this will create more  resilience for humans *and* ecosystems in the coming years.  Thank you for your work, Dahr! Thank you for listening, folks! Please  check out Dahr Jamail's website here (http://dahrjamail.net) and if you like what we do getting these videos out there, support us here. (http://patreon.com/globalearthrepair) Thanks are due to Kevin Tomlinson for the production of this podcast: https://crazywisefilm.com/