An American listener, "Tim" from Michigan, quoted Carl Sagan: "Extinction is the rule, survival the exception".

Tim has argued, in an email: "If we want to be exceptional we have to move the Overton Window a lot more than Tom Steyer can even imagine".

My American friend was commenting on a recent "Climate Conversations" episode featuring a discussion between Steyer and Greg Dalton on "Climate One".

The Australia Institute has what it describes as "Australia's Biggest Book Club" and recently the guest was Royce Kurmelovs who has just published "Slick: Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil".

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