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PART 1: THE DUH PRINCIPLE: BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY
"Look before you leap." "Better safe than sorry." These simple
mottoes express the heart of the precautionary principle, which acts as
a lens for scientific choices, "an insurance policy against our own
ignorance." Carolyn Raffensperger and Sharyle Patton share stories that put flesh and bone on this golden rule. and
PART 2: THE WONDERS OF GAIA – NATURE IS SYMBIOTIC
"Why plant a garden when you can put plants to work for you in your own body?" This is one of the mind bending questions Lynn Margulis, one of the greatest cross-disciplinary scientific thinkers and educators of our epoch, asks. She, ethnobotanist Wade Davis and mycologist Paul Stamets weave tales of amazing plant intelligence like the "Hat Thrower Mushroom" and animals that eat light.
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