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Michael Mehta Webster Discusses His New Book - The Rescue Effect:The Key To Saving Life On Earth

November 16, 2022 Michael Mehta Webster Season 2 Episode 92
Radio Free Galisteo
Michael Mehta Webster Discusses His New Book - The Rescue Effect:The Key To Saving Life On Earth
Show Notes

Michael Mehta Webster is an expert in ecology, conservation, philanthropy, and non-profit management expert and a Professor of Practice in the Department of Environmental Studies at New York University.   He has also led efforts to connect cutting-edge science to protecting species and ecosystems in the wild as the Executive Director of the Coral Reef Alliance, a Program Officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and an academic scientist at Cornell University and Oregon State University.  Webster earned a Ph.D. in Zoology at Oregon State University, and a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin.  He talks with RFG's John Shannon about the concept behind his book, The Rescue Effect, and reveals that the natural world has a series of systems—rescue effects—that automatically activate to help organisms when their environment changes, “like a thermostat turning the air conditioning on when a room gets too warm, the rescue effect automatically turns on when a population is stressed or declining.

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