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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Interview: 'The whole industry does not make any sense, economically, socially, environmentally, financially, it doesn't work'; Professor David Lindenmayer on Australia's forest industry
Description: Professor David Lindenmayer from the Fenner School of Environment & Society at the Australian National University is critical of many issues impacting Australia's forest industry, arguing he has worn out many pairs of shoes trekking to Federal Parliament to plead the case for the nation's forests.His frustration with the country's politicians, other decision-makers, and industry lobbyists, who all handled the scientific truth about our forests rather loosely, led him to write "The Forest Wars".More than four decades of working with his team in Australia's forests, particularly in Victoria, have seen Professor Lindenmayer emerge as...