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A
Hello,
my
name
is
tony
whitbread,
I'm
president
of
the
sussex
wildlife
trust
and
also
sit
on
the
southeast
climate
alliance,
and
I
want
to
talk
to
you
today
about
climate
change
from
the
perspective
of
ecology
as
a
system.
Now,
starting
point,
of
course
is
this:
is
this
graph
where
we
can
see
our
temperatures
rising
rapidly
at
the
end,
but
we
have
a
period
of
which
actually
goes
back
to
10
000
years
of
relative
climate
stability,
and
it's
the
way
that
that
climate
is
kept
stable
by
the
activity
of
of
nature
itself.
A
A
On
the
right
hand,
side
you've
got
the
activity
of
plants
which
lock
up
carbon
dioxide
and
water,
using
the
energy
of
the
sun,
to
make
carbohydrates
photosynthesis
and
that's
the
basis
of
all
life,
so
everything
that
all
the
plant
matter
and
all
the
animal
matter
that
follows
starts
there
and
on
the
left-hand
side,
you've
got
the
decomposition
and
respiration
cycle.
So
so
you've
got
this
great
cycle
going
on
two
key
things.
First
of
all
that
the
figures
are
huge
and
secondly,
it's
in
balance,
so
equal
amounts
being
locked
up
and
emitted.
A
But
of
course
that's
not
the
case.
We
are
emitting
more
from
our
from
our
our
own
activities,
and
so
the
concentration
of
carbon
dioxide
is
building
up.
Against
the
background
of
this,
this
great
carbon
cycle,
which
is
maintained
by
plants
now
there
are
ways
to
think
about
about
habitats
and
carbon.
First
of
all,
habitats
are
carbon
stores;
they
also
actively
remove
carbon
from
the
atmosphere,
but
land
use
can
change,
can
change
that
and
climate
change
can
actually
change
the
ability
of
ecosystems
to
absorb
carbon.
So
three
key
points
we
need
to
protect.
A
So,
looking
at
some
some
detail
here
here,
we
have
a
graph
which
shows
some
different
habitats,
but
the
key
thing
is
the
amount
that's
actually
stored
in
soils,
not
just
in
the
vegetation
itself.
The
orange
bar
is
the
amount
in
soil.
The
blue
bar
is
the
amount
that's
actually
held
in
the
vegetation,
so
even
with
forests,
you
can
see
how
much
is
in
the
soils.
Large
amounts
of
our
carbon
are
stored
in
soils
in
all
sorts
of
different
habitats.
A
Thinking
of
woodlands,
in
particular,
75
percent
of
the
carbon
in
woodlands,
is
in
soils
not
in
trees.
Carbon
losses
from
soil
disturbance
is
a
key
point.
A
We
shouldn't
I've
just
chosen
one
other
example.
Here
there
are
several
different
habitats,
but
grasslands
we
tend
not
to
think
about
that,
but
actually
they
hold
a
large
amount
of
carbon
in
their
soils
and
again,
disturbance
is
very
important.
If
we
disturb
the
soils
in
grasslands,
converting
into
a
haribo
for
for
development
or
whatever,
then
you
can.
You
can
release
large
amounts
of
carbon,
which
takes
a
long
time
to
build
up
again,
and
you
can
do
it
the
other
way
around.
A
So,
if
you
create
grassland,
you
can
actually
start
to
lock
up
soil
in
the
carbon
carbon
in
the
soil
itself.
I'd
also
like
to
point
out
that
it's
not
just
about
how
how
habitats,
lock
up
carbon
it's
actually
how
habitats
can
be
managed
to
make
a
resilient
environment
that's
resilient
to
change
change
is
coming
anyway.
We
have
climate
change,
so
the
environment
needs
to
be
able
to
adapt.
It
needs
to
carry
on
functioning
against
that
that
change.
So
here's,
a
nice
and
nice
picture
of
green
and
pleasant
land
could
be
north
of
worthing.
A
I'm
not
actually
sure
where
it
is
looks
good,
but
all
the
habitats
are
isolated
now.
What
I
want
you
to
remember
here
are
four
words:
better
bigger,
more
enjoined.
We
do
that,
then
we
can
actually
start
to
build
a
resilient
landscape.
So
if
we,
if
we
go
back
to
this
landscape,
start
to
think
how
we
can
make
the
sites
better,
how
we
can
make
them
bigger,
how
we
can
link
them
all
up
now,
we
can
make
more
of
them.
A
Then
you
can
start
to
see
how
you
can
build
a
landscape
which
is
going
to
be
far
better
able
to
respond
to
change,
and
you
can
think
about
re-wetting
wetlands
as
well,
making
regenerative
agriculture
and
so
on.
So
this
this
can
can
work
together
with
the
ability
of
habitats
to
lock
up
carbon.
In
summary,
it's
too
late
to
stop
climate
change.
A
We
know
that
and
we
need
a
technology
to
take
carbon
out
of
the
atmosphere
and
we
need
to
prepare
our
landscapes
that
for
the
changes
that
are
coming
anyway,
but
we
have
that
technology
and
that
10
technology
is
called.
Nature
has
been
with
us
a
long
time
and
you
can
apply
to
any
scale.
It's
not
just
something.
A
We
need
vast
areas
of
company
side
for
works
equally
well
in
in
towns
and
villages,
but
a
key
point
I
want
to
leave
you
with
is
that
modifying
the
invite
working
on
the
on
on
habitats,
modifying
the
environment
by
working
with
ecosystems
is
never
going
to
be
enough
to
address
climate
change
by
itself.
We
can't
carry
on
with
business
as
usual,
just
by
planting
a
few
trees,
so
it
won't
work.
If
that's
all
we
do,
we
do
need
to
work
with
the
environment.