Finding Genius Podcast

Finding Genius Podcast


Understanding the Value of Investing in Nature - Gretchen Cara Daily, Ph.D.—Stanford Center for Conservation Biology

December 05, 2019

Imagine waking up on the sterile landscape of the moon. What would you need in order to make life possible and enjoyable? According to Gretchen Cara Daily, Director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University, this is the kind of question you’d need to answer in order to begin understanding the value—both intrinsic and monetary---of nature. If it weren’t for wasps, we probably wouldn’t have wine; if it weren’t for the bees in tropical rainforests, we probably wouldn’t have c