the tough calls to mitigate climate change [Video]

Dr Mark Norman has started thinking of it as war-gaming.

“It’s like, what’s our strategy, what’s our tactic?” he says. “What do we do this summer for a bad fire? What do we do in five years’ time, knowing that this plant or this animal is in trouble – what have we set up as insurance so we don’t lose it completely?”

Norman is Parks Victoria’s chief scientist, conservation and climate action – responsible for overseeing the ecological systems of the 3250 parks and reserves the organisation manages – and the war he speaks of is climate change.

Changes that used to take place over hundreds or even 1000 years are now taking place in a …