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Tom Oliver

Tom Oliver

British-Australian actor

Jul 16, 2026

2:55
Yeah.
2:56
So, yeah, no, thank you.
2:57
And I enjoyed the Radical Royal display, by the way.
2:59
It was a really nice trail and an event.
3:02
So the Nature Delusion book, I mean, essentially it starts off talking eyes open about the reality of our climate and nature crisis that we face.
3:10
I think the book is actually hopefully optimistic and is focused on solutions, but we also have to be realistic about the crisis that we face.
3:17
And so it starts off talking about, the pollution of our water, the loss of nature, et cetera.

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50:53
um and in that context there's also an appropriation an appropriation of other landscapes of other environments of other ways of doing things i'm slightly concerned that there's a degree of appropriation going on in in a contemporary co-option of of different world views and perspectives so i just want to ask you how do we ensure that this isn't a sort of a process, another process of appropriation by a well-meaning scientific discourse or need and one that's global, that's inclusive, that brings other people along for the journey as well and doesn't overwrite or bulldoze their ideas.
30:17
In terms of moving towards those nature-centric systems of governance and worldview, I suppose, what kind of things would you implement
30:24
Yeah.
30:24
So I mean, I can say that, you know, if you think about how we've thought about species conservation, you know, in about 80s and 90s, I don't know if you remember the kind of WWF, save the tiger, save the whale campaigns.
30:36
So they were based on the intrinsic value of those species.
30:39
You know, the tiger's wonderful, let's save it.
30:41
And also the fact that, you know, the whale or the panda or the tiger are umbrella species.
30:45
If we can protect those, we protect all the little tiny moths and frogs that we don't even know exist at the moment.

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39:43
Could you pick up on any of that kind of complexity?
75:11
How are you going to transform this Spiegel tent that you found in the middle of the paddock of nowhere in Augustella into a 1980s Aussie pub?
75:19
Well, you just put a keg of beer in the middle of the room and that does a lot of the heavy lifting.
75:25
But part of the beauty of this beagle tent specifically is that it was designed to look like an Aussie shearing shed.
75:33
So it's It's not your traditional Spiegel tent with the wood and the mirror and the drapes.
75:38
It's literally got tin and timber everywhere you look.
75:43
And we're going to bring in some special kind of costumes and set design.
75:47
And for me, I was watching ACDC perform when I went to the Edinburgh Fringe last year and I was like, this is an Aussie band selling out a stadium on the other side of the world.
80:36
Also, some people get freaked out by a lot of clowns.

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