158: Wildlife In The Balance with Simon Mustoe

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In his book, “Wildlife in The Balance”, expert ecologist Simon Mustoe lays out the case for animals being the most important ingredient of the ecosystem. He outlines the critical importance of keeping the planet’s energy inputs and outputs in balance and the role animals play in ensuring this balance. This connection of ecology with physics is one of the most unique and forward-thinking aspects of this book. To extend this thought, the book contains one of the most comprehensive and compelling explanations of why the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis are in fact one and the same - neither can be solved separately.
This is one of the most thought-provoking books I have read. Although I don’t agree with everything in the book, I can overlook my disagreements because of how brilliant some parts that I do agree with are. So I couldn’t wait to sit down with the author, expert ecologist, Simon Mustoe for a chat about his views and, of course, about the book.
After reading this book, I started to question many things that I had thought to be unequivocally true. For example, the removal of overabundant species, like deer, that are thought to be having a negative effect on the local ecosystem. I’m not saying that I think it’s not true anymore, but it made me question whether it is really true.
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@DavidOBrienauthor 10 месяцев назад

fascinating! I wish I could disagree that the economy is going to crash, because of selfish reasons, but I think he's right. Will have to get this book.

@TommysOutdoors 10 месяцев назад

It's a good one. As always, thanks for watching and for selfish reasons, just a reminder, that you can get it through my links which would be a great help to the podcast and to me!

@drts6955 10 месяцев назад

Nice one! I think his last magic wand wish is a bit naive however, when we eat food and receive products from all over the world

@TommysOutdoors 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@leviadraconia 9 месяцев назад

I actually can't agree with the wildlife management is unnecessary part. He thinks if someone would be told to lay out a million marbles they would think it's a ridiculous thing to ask. I would ask what the purpose is. The questions that need to be asked are "what is the current situation like?" "what is the ideal situation we want?" and "What options do we have to get there?" To me wildlife management involves a whole lot of evaluation, especially if there are invasive species involved in it. If we would let nature have it's course, sure it would balance itself out at some stage but in the meanwhile it could take down the fundaments that keep many species alive and most likely our own too. Many people would see the latter as a good thing but even that would be bad because many species depend on us these days (pigeons for example) and we would leave behind a whole lot of dangerous materials and technology that would have a devastating effect on the planet if left uncontrolled (e.g. power plants). We've changed our environment through our need to control everything so much that we need control to get it back to working on it's own without killing off large amounts of life in the process (or more than usual). If we manage to do it is a different story. lol On the topic of all animals matter: I am not entirely sure where I read it, but the author mentioned that we have a whole lot of species that barely anyone knows about that go extinct on a daily basis without any consequences on the environment. They can be extremely specialized or generalists, they just disappear without a trace and other species take over their place in the system. Those seem to be mainly insects and other small animals with a huge variety of species though. So I think not all animals matter as long as there are enough others to fill the gap.

@TommysOutdoors 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, I think there are many caveats when we deal with a subject as complex as this one. I think, that Simon has the general direction right, though.