Lucky Roland

Where oh where would we be without surfing, to practice thinking thoughts, and where oh where would we be without this podcast, to call ourselves out for thinking the most silly ones. * And then occasionally - just occasionally - explore the environmental narrative of Australia just long enough to hear a big echoey thunk, and realise we've actually... struck pure+critical gold? Look, I don't want to toot my own horn with too many words here, but I called this one to a tee. * The EXACT scenario we projected a few episodes ago, about how suss it seemed that a "good news" research paper could come out about the Great Barrier Reef days before a vote in front of the World Heritage Committee, has played out EXACTLY how you and I discussed it could. FOI documents proving how vulnerable our scientific institutions are to budgetary intervention, and how high and dry that leaves us regular Aussies in the conservation of our most previous survival assets. * It's all a bit farked really, but still no reason not to have a