Environmentalist Tom Kay is on a mission to get people rethinking how to protect natural and built environments. But sometimes that includes difficult truths, like realising the devastating flow-on effects of man-made 'solutions'. He talks to Matthew Rosenberg . . . Nature-based solutions — the words flash up in bold on a Gisborne District Council screen. It's late March, and Forest & Bird freshwater advocate Tom Kay is presenting to 13 councillors, the mayor, a selection of council managers, and a handful of onlookers about the importance of rethinking natural disaster mitigation.

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