Dr Flannery covers a lot of ground in his interview. Here are some of the topics he discusses if you want to go directly to that section. Alternatively, you can read the full article here.

• Extinctions and diversity before human arrival
• How eucalypts change their environments
• What happened when humans arrived: the wave of extinctions
• The European arrival : then what happened?
• Why Australian creatures haven't gone feral in the rest of the world?
• A bright future for those opportunist eucalypts
• Finding a new balance in the ecosystem
• The rate of change: salination as an example
• The death of a dangerous dream.

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