In reply to Chive Talkin\':
He was an odd guy. He was massively charismatic and enthused and inspired many people, but his ridiculous stance on climate change soured what could have been a much more concrete legacy.
He was not afraid to stand up for the environment, as many Australians would testify ( he was arrested in a dam protest there), until suddenly he wasn't.
I met him a couple of times (gave him a lift to the station, once - bit of a luvvie, but a lot of tv environmentalists are) and he had been a real advocate for the Wildlife Trusts, and was generous with his time for them, but then you hit that climate change denial. He traded on his peat related phd, but in truth he hadn't done any science in decades. A good field botanist, i believe.
The world will be greyer without him, but like i said, odd