Hello, it's Russell here. I'm very excited to share some of my conversation with Professor Tom Oliver. Tom Oliver's a professor of ecology at the University of Reading, a social ecological systems expert, and a senior fellow within the UK government informing on environment or policy.

I don't mean informing on it as in, you know, in the informant. I mean it in like he gives you information.

Anyway, this book is written, the self-delusions absolutely fantastic. He talks about how in a sense we are all one, not from a wonderful spiritual but sort of made up perspective, but from a scientific data based perspective he explains it beautifully on a microbial level, on a level of the cosmos, glorious stuff across time and space, we are one.

Beautiful perspective you're going to enjoy this extract. Hey, which extractor are you? Do you like the bit where it talks about microbes? Do you like the bit where it talks about the microbes?

Oh, there's 40 kilograms of oxygen. That's a good bit. You've just the first thing you remember. Did you like that bit tomorrow? What about when I'm talking? What about bit I mean?

Yeah, we have to choose bits where the guesses speak. I regret saying that. It does a bit about language that was good.

What about just look, no, let's do him. You all know me. You know me. I talk. This used Tom Oliver's best bit. The bit about the microbes above Russia. No oxygen above Russia.

There we go then. This is a good bit. It's going to knock you socks off.

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And this game. Can you explain a bit more about that please forge jumping between heads and microbes or or in our moods? Yeah, so the I mean as we talked about before we intuitively feel that we're kind of these independent.

You know, atomized entities, but when you look at say the physical science.

We. I mean, firstly, our bodies are made of molecules, which are actually parts of you know, they were part of other plants and animals and you know inside our body.

There are 40 kilograms of oxygen and that oxygen was before it was in our bodies was spread around the atmosphere in the in the oceans.

It was inside dinosaurs and plants and trees. Just just to give you a thought experiment about you know how that those molecules would have been spread out.

And those 40 kilograms of oxygen right now, they're quite you know densely held together with with the just they're in water. So there's strong kind of into molecular bonds holding our bodies.

That's why we don't all float around even though we're full of oxygen.

But if we were when we die and we're in a weather commated or.

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