JEC JOURNAL CLUB: Extinction, climate change and the ecology of Homo sapiens

British Ecological Society

JOURNAL CLUB: Jane Catford interviews Prof. David Tilman about his mini-review: Extinction, climate change and the ecology of Homo sapiens. Listen to the podcast, and then join Dave online for a live Twitter discussion! (full details below) • 00:00 Introductions and a summary of the paper. • 03:12 What’s led you from the start of your career, to asking these big questions around the impacts of agriculture, fossil fuels, and the intersection of human health and the environment? • 06:25 You say in your abstract that ‘ecology needs to become a more mechanistic and predictive science’ - how can we achieve that, and what do you think has been holding us back? • 08:42 If we had more mechanistic predictive models, do you think we could have better anticipated those unintended consequences that came out from mandating that we use maize for fuel? • 12:13 You make a strong argument that we need to be doing more multi-disciplinary thinking and working - in practice, how do we do that? • 19:10 Which strategies should be used to best communicate our science to policy makers and decision makers? • 21:24 The messages from your paper are very sobering, how do you deal with this and stay optimistic as you look to the future? • 24:40 Live Twitter discussion details Read the full paper here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2745.13847 If you’d like to chat to Dave about his research, join us for a JOURNAL CLUB discussion, LIVE on Twitter, and tag us in your questions and comments: 🗓️DATE: Tuesday 24th May 2022, 3pm (UK time) 📌TWITTER TAGS: #JEcolJournalClub @GDavidTilman Or, leave your questions in the comments below, by the above date.