Ecosystems as infrastructure: Tim Christophersen on how to rebuild humanity’s ties to nature

Ecosystems as infrastructure: Tim Christophersen on how to rebuild humanity’s ties to nature

The forests of northern Europe provided Tim Christophersen with his first education. As a child in rural Germany he followed his grandfather, a forest ranger, on long walks among the trees. Fishing trips and mushroom hunts instilled habits of observation that would shape his later career. Today, after decades spent in international negotiations and corporate boardrooms, he still returns to nature daily, tending a regenerative farm outside Copenh…