Tim Flannery, one of Australia's top scientists and author of The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change talks to Andi Hazelwood of Global Public Media about his suggested mitigations for climate change on the heels of the alarming new report from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Flannery also discusses Australia's drought and food crises, relocalization and Bjorn Lomborg's skeptical new book on global warming.

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Andi Hazelwood: Should communities also be looking to relocalize, rather than relying on importing and exporting?

Dr. Tim Flannery: I think that's probably part of the response, and not only that but within large communities, like cities, we need to develop distributed power grids. So a localized form of power generation whether it be wind or solar or biomass contributing. And of course those communities, as you say, that are further out, localizing so we can reduce the food miles component of everything that we transport.