Flames of extinction: the race to save biodiversity with John Pickrell
Channel: Inside Ideas
Date: 10/06/2021

John Pickrell is my guest on Episode 102 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.

John is an award-winning journalist, the author of Flying Dinosaurs and Weird Dinosaurs, and the former editor of Australian Geographic magazine. His latest book Flames of Extinction -The Race to Save Australia's Threatened Wildlife was just released, covering the wildfires in Australia 2019/2020. 

Currently the Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief for Nature, he has worked in London, Washington, DC, and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News, and Cosmos. His articles also appear in National Geographic, Scientific American, Focus, BBC Future, The Guardian, and ABC. John has been a finalist in the Australian Museum’s Eureka Prizes three times, won an Earth Journalism Award, and has featured repeatedly in The Best Australian Science Writing anthology, which he edited in 2018. He studied biology at Imperial College in the United Kingdom and has a Master of Science in taxonomy and biodiversity from the Natural History Museum, London. 

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00:00 - Flames of extinction: the race to save biodiversity with John Pickrell
00:35 - Introduction of Inside Ideas guest John Pickrell on Episode 102 with Marc Buckley
02:12 - Earth Day
03:19 - Passion for dinosaurs 
05:14 - Evolution after the mass extinction
09:39 - Book release during the pandemic - Flames of Extinction
10:07 - Prof.Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht’s book “The End of Evolution” on Inside Ideas Ep. 50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRAd4QeguJ8&t=31s
11:50 - Did you build resilience with your background?
12:22 - Australia's biological and geological history 
15:16 - The 2019/2020 Bushfires so intense
17:50 - Several journeys are taken in the book Flames of Extinction
18:22 - How to deal with fires and climate change in the future?
25:33 - New conservation methods
26:14 - The reporting of the bushfires during the pandemic
27:58 - Area as big as Ireland was burn down
31:14 - Data from the fires, Co2, biodiversity loss of animals and plants, land loss
35:04 - Smoke from the wildfires traveling far
37:07 - Climate change causing drought and heatwaves
40:15 - A wake-up call for Australia
45:17 - Many different climates in Australia
47:05 - Geoengineering and climate change
48:54 - Koalas 
51:30 - Bird and bushfires
53:21 - More on the loss of Koalas
56:01 - Koala and chlamydia 
59:59 - Many eyeopening moments and hopeful stories in the book Flames of Extinction
1:03:16 - The burning question, WTF - What is the Future?
1:04:51 - What does a world that works for everyone look like for you?
1:06:04 - Sustainable Takeaway
1:06:30 - What should young journalists in your field think about?
1:07:11 - What I wished I knew from the start
1:08:29 - Cultural evolution