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Tuesday, 16 October 2018

Guardian podcast: We need to talk about … extinction

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We Need to Talk About...
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George Monbiot and wildlife experts discuss the increasingly devastating impacts of human behaviour on fauna and flora, and what can be done to protect species, locally and globally
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Presented by Lee Glendinning, produced by Stuart Silver and featuring Dr Nisha Owen, Tony Juniper and George Monbiot

Mon 15 Oct 2018 16.30 AEDT Last modified on Tue 16 Oct 2018 03.23 AEDT

In this monthly podcast, Guardian supporters share their experiences and put questions to a panel of journalists and industry experts. This episode focuses on the demise of many aspects of the natural world.
How can conservation be rebalanced with development? With finite resources available, who decides which species should be saved, and how is that decided? How can governments better commit to implementing sustainable, collaborative and international policies? And what can we do to save the many endangered species locally and globally?
These are just some of the questions Guardian supporters asked host and Executive Editor for Membership Lee Glendinning to put to our panel in this edition of We Need to Talk About.
Joining Lee is Dr Nisha Owen, who runs the Zoological Society of London’s international EDGE of Existence programme, focusing on species prioritisation, conservation action and capacity building, Tony Juniper, Executive Director for Advocacy and Campaigns at WWF-UK and George Monbiot, environmental writer and campaigner, and Guardian columnist.
If you enjoy this pod, and want to catch up with the rest of the series, you can listen to discussions on topics ranging from Brexit and nationalism to the rise of veganism here. Guardian supporters can also suggest future topics for discussion by emailing us at weneedtotalkabout@theguardian.com.
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I was inspired to start this when I discovered old editions of "The Worker". "The Worker" was first published in March 1890, it was the Journal of the Associated Workers of Queensland. It was a Political Newspaper for the Labour Movement. The first Editor was William "Billy" Lane who strongly supported the iconic Shearers' Strike in 1891. He planted the seed of New Unionism in Queensland with the motto “that men should organise for the good they can do and not the benefits they hope to obtain,” he also started a Socialist colony in Paraguay. Because of the right-wing bias in some sections of the Australian media, I feel compelled to counter their negative and one-sided version of events. The disgraceful conduct of the Murdoch owned Newspapers in the 2013 Federal Election towards the Labor Party shows how unrepresentative some of the Australian media has become.
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