CUSTOMER BRIEF The Capacity to Change A prominent ecologist helps shape a more environmentally sound future When Peter Reich talks about the environment, those in the know take notice. So it arrives as encouraging news when Reich, one of the world’s leading forest ecologists, says he’s guardedly optimistic about the future of our planet. “We’re not going to solve things over- night,” says Reich, “but I think we have the capacity, and we have the resources, to fix what we’re doing. Whether our political systems are too dysfunctional to make the right choices in time is the big unknown.” Reich holds an endowed professor- ship in the Department of Forest Resources at the University of Minnesota, where he is a Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor. I

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