The speaker thinks a technologically equipped, highly intelligent team of ethnobotanists could determine which Australian plants are safe to eat in less than 50,000 years.

“I think that if you were to send a team of ethnobotanists into Australia and ask them, using all the top technology and all of their intelligence,”

“to figure out which plants are safe to eat now,”

“that team of ethnobotanists would succeed in fewer than 50,000 years.”