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Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Tim Flannery.

Tim Flannery is a mammologist and paleontologist.

He was the chief commissioner of the Australian Climate Commission and chairman of the

Copenhagen Climate Council. He was named Australian Humanist of the Year in 2005 and Australian

of the year in 2007. And he's currently a fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at

the University of Melbourne. In this episode, we talk about the Glasgow Climate Change Conference

and where the world is at with respect to our carbon reduction goals. We talk about the trade-off

between industrialization in developing nations and reducing carbon emissions.

We talk about whether we're in the midst of a sixth mass extinction.

We discuss whether climate change is making natural disasters worse.

We discuss the efficacy of lifestyle changes like becoming a vegetarian, and much more.

So without further ado, Tim Flannery.

Okay, Tim Flannery. Thank you so much for coming on my show. It's a pleasure, Coleman.

So before we get into the climate cure, which is your latest book and the general topic of climate change and the environment. Can you give my listeners a little sense of who you are, how you came to care about

this issue? Sure. Look, common, I'm a scientist. I started off as a paleontologist. I spent,

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