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Future Ready: The Advocate for a Better Anthropocene
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Published: 20 July 2020
惭肠骋颈濒濒鈥檚 Elena Bennett wants you to imagine a radical, inspiring, and realistic future for our planet
When you think of the Earth 50 years from now, what do you see? Do you imagine desolate cities, scorched forests, dead oceans, lost biodiversity? Elena Bennett wants you to know the future doesn鈥檛 have to be bleak.
鈥淲e can achieve a good Anthropocene 鈥 a future that is more just, prosperous, and sustainable than our current world,鈥 says Bennett, an ecosystem ecologist jointly appointed to the 平特五不中 School of Environment and the Department of Natural Resource Sciences in 惭肠骋颈濒濒鈥檚 Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.