TIM CHRISTOPHERSEN is the Vice President of Climate Action at Salesforce. With over 25 years of international experience across the public and private sector, including 15 years with the United Nations Environment Programme, Tim has dedicated his entire career to achieving harmony between humanity and nature.

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• Dr. Jane Goodall’s Foreword for Generation Restoration xiii1 Squandering Our Natural Wealth 1Restoration in One Generation 2Nature Gone Bust 4Shifting Baseline Syndrome 11Tipping Point 14Resilience Starts with Us 242 A Century of Ecology 29Ecology: The Science of Our Only Home 31A New Century of Ecology 41Ecological Literacy for Everyone 423 Nature Is Us: A Tale of Reciprocity 57Nature Is Many, Nature Is One 58Nature Is Us 61Counterproductive Conservation 72A New Hope 77So, Are We Part of Nature? 834 The Value of Nature 85“It’s the Ecology, Stupid!” 86A New Economy Emerges 93The Oldest New Financial Asset Class 99A Restoration Boom 111All the Money in the World 1155 The World Plus 10 Percent 119Take No More Than Half 120A Movement Is Born: Acción Andina 124Living in Harmony with Nature: Satoyama 135The World’s Largest Protected Area Network: Natura 2000 137The Guardians of Nature 139Respect for Mother Nature 143A New Relationship 1496 A Trillion Trees 153The Power of Trees 154Resetting Our Relationship with Forests 156A Rights-Based Approach 162Trailblazer 165Learning from the Forest 170Forests Under Scrutiny 175Is It Too Late? 1787 World Restoration Flagships 183Brazil’s Atlantic Forest 184Farther Than the Eye Can See 193The Arc of Restoration in the Brazilian Amazon 196Community-Based Natural Farming in India 198A New Restoration Economy in South Africa 200Building with Nature in Indonesia 205Restoring Planet Earth 2068 Stubborn Optimists 209The Future We Want 210A Journey Forward to Nature 215Generation Restoration from Local to Global 227Epilogue: The Freedom to Choose 229Taking Action 233Notes 239Acknowledgments 265About the Author 267Index 269

TIM CHRISTOPHERSEN is the Vice President of Climate Action at Salesforce. With over 25 years of international experience across the public and private sector, including 15 years with the United Nations Environment Programme, Tim has dedicated his entire career to achieving harmony between humanity and nature.

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• Dr. Jane Goodall’s Foreword for Generation Restoration xiii1 Squandering Our Natural Wealth 1Restoration in One Generation 2Nature Gone Bust 4Shifting Baseline Syndrome 11Tipping Point 14Resilience Starts with Us 242 A Century of Ecology 29Ecology: The Science of Our Only Home 31A New Century of Ecology 41Ecological Literacy for Everyone 423 Nature Is Us: A Tale of Reciprocity 57Nature Is Many, Nature Is One 58Nature Is Us 61Counterproductive Conservation 72A New Hope 77So, Are We Part of Nature? 834 The Value of Nature 85“It’s the Ecology, Stupid!” 86A New Economy Emerges 93The Oldest New Financial Asset Class 99A Restoration Boom 111All the Money in the World 1155 The World Plus 10 Percent 119Take No More Than Half 120A Movement Is Born: Acción Andina 124Living in Harmony with Nature: Satoyama 135The World’s Largest Protected Area Network: Natura 2000 137The Guardians of Nature 139Respect for Mother Nature 143A New Relationship 1496 A Trillion Trees 153The Power of Trees 154Resetting Our Relationship with Forests 156A Rights-Based Approach 162Trailblazer 165Learning from the Forest 170Forests Under Scrutiny 175Is It Too Late? 1787 World Restoration Flagships 183Brazil’s Atlantic Forest 184Farther Than the Eye Can See 193The Arc of Restoration in the Brazilian Amazon 196Community-Based Natural Farming in India 198A New Restoration Economy in South Africa 200Building with Nature in Indonesia 205Restoring Planet Earth 2068 Stubborn Optimists 209The Future We Want 210A Journey Forward to Nature 215Generation Restoration from Local to Global 227Epilogue: The Freedom to Choose 229Taking Action 233Notes 239Acknowledgments 265About the Author 267Index 269

TIM CHRISTOPHERSEN is the Vice President of Climate Action at Salesforce. With over 25 years of international experience across the public and private sector, including 15 years with the United Nations Environment Programme, Tim has dedicated his entire career to achieving harmony between humanity and nature.

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• Dr. Jane Goodall’s Foreword for Generation Restoration xiii1 Squandering Our Natural Wealth 1Restoration in One Generation 2Nature Gone Bust 4Shifting Baseline Syndrome 11Tipping Point 14Resilience Starts with Us 242 A Century of Ecology 29Ecology: The Science of Our Only Home 31A New Century of Ecology 41Ecological Literacy for Everyone 423 Nature Is Us: A Tale of Reciprocity 57Nature Is Many, Nature Is One 58Nature Is Us 61Counterproductive Conservation 72A New Hope 77So, Are We Part of Nature? 834 The Value of Nature 85“It’s the Ecology, Stupid!” 86A New Economy Emerges 93The Oldest New Financial Asset Class 99A Restoration Boom 111All the Money in the World 1155 The World Plus 10 Percent 119Take No More Than Half 120A Movement Is Born: Acción Andina 124Living in Harmony with Nature: Satoyama 135The World’s Largest Protected Area Network: Natura 2000 137The Guardians of Nature 139Respect for Mother Nature 143A New Relationship 1496 A Trillion Trees 153The Power of Trees 154Resetting Our Relationship with Forests 156A Rights-Based Approach 162Trailblazer 165Learning from the Forest 170Forests Under Scrutiny 175Is It Too Late? 1787 World Restoration Flagships 183Brazil’s Atlantic Forest 184Farther Than the Eye Can See 193The Arc of Restoration in the Brazilian Amazon 196Community-Based Natural Farming in India 198A New Restoration Economy in South Africa 200Building with Nature in Indonesia 205Restoring Planet Earth 2068 Stubborn Optimists 209The Future We Want 210A Journey Forward to Nature 215Generation Restoration from Local to Global 227Epilogue: The Freedom to Choose 229Taking Action 233Notes 239Acknowledgments 265About the Author 267Index 269