16. Sean Gerrity on the rewilding renaissance

Sean Gerrity is the co-founder and former CEO of American Prairie [https://americanprairie.org/]—a giant wildlife refuge in the making in Montana, which I hiked and kayaked this past August. Sean is the host of The Answers Are Out There [https://www.theanswersareouttherepodcast.net/] podcast in which he interviews leaders who've taken on bold conservation projects. He's the author of Wild on Purpose: The American Prairie Story and the Art of Thinking Bigger [https://www.torreyhouse.org/wild-on-purpose].

* Some of Sean's favorite things: musician Ry Cooder, Sapiens by Yoval Noah Hariri, Travels with Charley, East of Eden, A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby, Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath, and…

* Sean's podcast interview [https://www.theanswersareouttherepodcast.net/podcast/episode11] with Violet Sage Walker — a Northern Chumash Tribal Leader — celebrating America's Newest Large-Scale Marine Sanctuary.

* Are we in a rewilding renaissance?

* How well known is American Prairie? Is it's under-knownness due to the noise of the modern day information flow?

* Is today the best of times (lots of exciting conservation opportunities) and the worst of times (the overwhelming negativity funneled into our brains).

* 192 out of 196 countries signing up to achieve vision of 30% of the world saved for nature by 2030. [https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/protect-water-and-land/land-and-water-stories/committing-to-30x30/]

* The big four things for helping the environment:

* Stabilize global human population

* Accelerate transition to green energy

* Rewild

* Redo how we do agriculture