Climate, Biodiversity, Communities — Do We Have to Choose? (Live from EarthX)

Earth Day started in 1970 with twenty million Americans, a bipartisan coalition, and no carbon agenda. It gave us the EPA, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act. So why does it feel like the environmental movement has spent the last two decades narrowing — not expanding?

Recorded live at EarthX in Dallas on Earth Day 2026, this episode brings together some of the most credible voices in American conservation to ask the question most people in this space won't say out loud: has the obsession with carbon as the single metric for nature been holding us back?

In this episode:

• Why the shift from "nature" to "climate" wasn't inevitable — and who benefited from it
• How siloed funding structures are actively limiting what gets built on the ground
• The Trinity River Audubon Center: what 120 acres on a former illegal landfill tells us about what restoration can look like
• Why the bipartisan conservation coalition fractured — and whether it can be rebuilt
• What investors and business leaders actually need to change about how they spend money on this

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