Professor David Farrier

How are we changing the natural world?

How is this change happening?

And then realizing that actually this plasticity is in us too.

And it became what was a story about how we're changing the planet and the rest of the living world became a story about what potential do we have to change?

And so, yeah, this is the kind of my roundabout way of getting back to that question is, yes, I absolutely believe that.

we have to rethink ourselves or reconnect rather with ourselves as nodes in the web of life.

But doing so via that sense, we also have this extraordinary plasticity within us.

And of course, we don't need to evolve our bodies.

I'm not saying we need to evolve gills or... Or our brains to grow twice the size.

Well, that would be nice.

It's changing our way of life.

You know, our culture, our technology, these are kind of secondary things

evolutionary systems, if you like.

We export so much of our evolution, historically, to culture, to technology.

And actually, we need to evolve our way of life and our sense of ourselves at the heart of that.

So we need a more plastic sense of what it means to be human, I think.

It's a mix.

I mean, this is what's so extraordinary about it, is this curve.

change in a different and different pathways you know so in in terms of the green and golden bell frogs that were bathing in these kind of septic tanks um you know built on the site of the of the old um sydney olympic village um they they um you know that that was just an opportunity a new affordance in the landscape if you like um that helped them um shed you know this this horrendous um

fungus that is having such a devastating effect on amphibians worldwide.