Dylan is joined on the line by award-winning climate scientist and writer Dr Joëlle Gergis, to discuss her new Quarterly Essay: Highway To Hell: Climate Change and Australia’s Future.

How truly at risk are we from the incoming effects of a warming planet? Dylan and Joëlle break down the science, the lack of government action and false solutions being proposed that do little to help the country cut its emissions.

“Most people aren’t aware that once you melt ice, it actually takes tens of thousands of years to come back as a stable ice-sheet – like the sort of thing we see in West Antarctica and in the Arctic today… Once that genie is out of the bottle, we can’t get it back in. There are real world consequences.”

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