Anya Steinberg

But I think... The idea of the greatest good for the greatest number is a question that no matter where we live in the U.S., you're going to have to face at some point in the future. I mean, not to be a merchant of doom and gloom, but climate change exists. And as these effects worsen or intensify...

I think people will be asking a lot of questions about like, how do we allocate the limited resources we have to do good? And is it right to be able to take from one place to give to another? I think a lot of people in the Owens Valley don't.

I think people will be asking a lot of questions about like, how do we allocate the limited resources we have to do good? And is it right to be able to take from one place to give to another? I think a lot of people in the Owens Valley don't.

I think people will be asking a lot of questions about like, how do we allocate the limited resources we have to do good? And is it right to be able to take from one place to give to another? I think a lot of people in the Owens Valley don't.

expressed to me that they felt like a water colony you know a colony of los angeles like something that only existed to be extracted from and i think that that is like the flip side of the greatest good for the greatest number because on one hand when you have need and you want to address that need i think there's very real like humanitarian reasons why we should

expressed to me that they felt like a water colony you know a colony of los angeles like something that only existed to be extracted from and i think that that is like the flip side of the greatest good for the greatest number because on one hand when you have need and you want to address that need i think there's very real like humanitarian reasons why we should

expressed to me that they felt like a water colony you know a colony of los angeles like something that only existed to be extracted from and i think that that is like the flip side of the greatest good for the greatest number because on one hand when you have need and you want to address that need i think there's very real like humanitarian reasons why we should

help people and sometimes taking resources from one place to the other is the way to do that. But that always has an effect downstream. Right. Pardon my pun. Yeah. So if anything, working on this episode made me more confused about what I think of that sentiment, but it is a really interesting way to engage with this moral question that we're all going to be grappling with.

help people and sometimes taking resources from one place to the other is the way to do that. But that always has an effect downstream. Right. Pardon my pun. Yeah. So if anything, working on this episode made me more confused about what I think of that sentiment, but it is a really interesting way to engage with this moral question that we're all going to be grappling with.

help people and sometimes taking resources from one place to the other is the way to do that. But that always has an effect downstream. Right. Pardon my pun. Yeah. So if anything, working on this episode made me more confused about what I think of that sentiment, but it is a really interesting way to engage with this moral question that we're all going to be grappling with.

And a lot of places outside of California already do in different ways. Right.

And a lot of places outside of California already do in different ways. Right.

And a lot of places outside of California already do in different ways. Right.

Well, to go back to Richard, I was very tired at this point. I had met up with other people before Richard. I'd been working for 10 hours at that point, just talking. So I was kind of like tapped out, ready to go back to the car. And Richard stopped me.

Well, to go back to Richard, I was very tired at this point. I had met up with other people before Richard. I'd been working for 10 hours at that point, just talking. So I was kind of like tapped out, ready to go back to the car. And Richard stopped me.

Well, to go back to Richard, I was very tired at this point. I had met up with other people before Richard. I'd been working for 10 hours at that point, just talking. So I was kind of like tapped out, ready to go back to the car. And Richard stopped me.

We were at this site called the Alabama Gates, where in the 1920s, the residents of the valley like occupied the gates for four days and shut off the water supply to the L.A. aqueduct or diverted the L.A. aqueduct to run into the valley. So we were at the Alabama gates and he was like, can you turn on your tape recorder again? I have something else to say.

We were at this site called the Alabama Gates, where in the 1920s, the residents of the valley like occupied the gates for four days and shut off the water supply to the L.A. aqueduct or diverted the L.A. aqueduct to run into the valley. So we were at the Alabama gates and he was like, can you turn on your tape recorder again? I have something else to say.

We were at this site called the Alabama Gates, where in the 1920s, the residents of the valley like occupied the gates for four days and shut off the water supply to the L.A. aqueduct or diverted the L.A. aqueduct to run into the valley. So we were at the Alabama gates and he was like, can you turn on your tape recorder again? I have something else to say.

And then he just delivered this very beautiful soliloquy to me of like kind of these very emotional reflections that I feel like, you know, he spent decades thinking about this issue and living here. And a lot of it, I don't think made it into the episode, which is why it's the perfect thing to talk about now. But he was talking a lot about like,