Steve Palumbi on Climate Change Recovery

At the RE:WIRED GREEN conference today:

“Life has recovered from climate change. It happened after the last five major extinction events… but took millions of years.”

A Stanford Professor on Ecosystem Restoration and Genetic Rescue, he studies heat-resistant corals as a keystone species for recovery.

“For the sixth recovery, we need a grand bargain. We need to change our energy and food systems to decrease CO2 or saving the reefs won’t work, and there will be no recovery.”