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Yvon Chouinard, a rock climber and the founder and chairman of Patagonia, Jib Ellison, a river guide and the founder of the strategy consultancy, Blu Skye, and Rick Ridgeway, a mountain climber and a vice president of Patagonia, write about how the viability of business depends on the resources of healthy ecosystems and the stability of just societies.

At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small tents pitched in the world’s most remote regions.” It’s not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, “to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.”