Today, a story about bushfires, the climate crisis, logging, and contested science. It’s an important story, because it tells us about where our changing climate is taking us, and the very difficult choices we now face.  At the centre of the storm: Professor David Lindenmayer, one of Australia’s highest-profile scientists and a new paper freshly published in the prestigious Nature Ecology and Evolution that says that he is, essentially… not quite correct.  Based at the Australian National University, Lindenmayer is one of the world’s most-cited scientists.  …One of Lindenmayer’s most important ideas is the “landscape trap”. …Logging makes forests more flammable. They are likely to burn more often – which in turn strips out more moisture and replaces old trees with young, flammable ones. Over time, the forest gets caught in a vicious cycle of fire increasing the risk of future bushfires. You’re caught in Lindenmayer’s landscape trap.