Penny Sarchet
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
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But it it does also pose the question not just about tools, but the use of fire, 'cause control is fire, like historically it's been a sort of defining human trait, but there's lots of debate about this and we now know that the Neanderthals use fire, didn't they?
Well shall we let's start by comparing and contrasting then, 'cause when we're talking about thousands of years changes in the actual wobble of the earth or um on on the shape of the orbit, these are kind of on grand evolutionary timescales that are much bigger than the kind of rapid rate of change that we're seeing now, Michael.
Yeah, but uh it's not that long before there are places in the world that are gonna become uninhabitable through heat.
Uh we're already seeing uh climate migration for things like sea level rise, aren't we?
There there's the first official climate migration treaty is between Tuvalu in the South Pacific and Australia.
Australia is accepting migrants and and granting them citizenship.
So was that as a result of climate or was that more to do with um industrialisation of the economy and
Yeah, it's to do
And then Michael, you sort of you said there that y you know, evolution can happen in a generation or two.
Climate change has been heating up for a while now.
Um, are we seeing anything in terms of how plants and animals are adapting?
Because when we talk about the things that um or the virtues of being able to adapt and be really flexible, in the plant world that's weeds.
It's it's not the oak trees that we love.
It it's the plants that are not very useful or or good for yeah.
so many generations that they can adapt quickly, whereas an oak tree takes a lot of things.
Well that's why we have to
Yeah.
because is that more resilient to the
Yeah, because
Yeah.
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