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Nick Birch
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entomologist and ecologist who has worked internationally on crop protection strategies which reduce pesticide use and increase sustainability. His interests include how climate change and food security issues are linked to global agriculture.
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Science Quotes by Nick Birch (1 quote)
I used to worry that all the trees in the jungle would be cut down to make paper for their reports on how to save the rainforest!
— Nick Birch
Quoted in Binka Le Breton (1993), Voices From the Amazon (1993), 26. As cited in Lykke E. Andersen (ed.), The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon (2002), 1, captioning Nick Birch as a “Forester in Rondonia.”
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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