This is the full interview with Will Steffen from the second episode of Eavesdrop on Ideas. It explores themes of The Anthropocene - the time during which humans have had a substantial impact on our planet.

Our second episode was Tipping points: from viral marketing to planetary systems.We collected comments from amazing people but the entire unedited interviews were so exciting we decided to publish them here, on the 5 Things About channel.

ABOUT WILL STEFFENWill Steffen is the emeritus professor at the ANU, the Australian National University in Canberra. He has spent much of his career working internationally on issues of global change and climate change.

This podcast was made possible by the University of Melbourne and the Centre of Visual Art. Thanks to our guest Will Steffen, your hosts were Dr Andi Horvath and Dr Suzie Frazer, audio engineering was by Arch Cuthbertson.This episode was recorded on the 13th of August 2020.