Bethany Brookshire
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 10 Jan
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And that depends a lot on how we view the environment around us.
Very true.
But I think there's also different ways to go after this problem.
And rats in particular are a great example.
We see rats as disgusting.
We see rats as being associated with filth, as being associated with disease, right?
And it's interesting because the reason we associate those animals with those places is because rats thrive in areas where human social contracts have failed.
They thrive in areas where we make families and children live in public housing projects that are not maintained.
They thrive in places where garbage is not picked up.
They thrive in places where good architecture is not maintained.
We encounter these pests and we encounter them in very close quarters when we aren't taking care of each other.
Rats cause real problems for people because people cause problems for each other.
And I think that's true for a large variety of animals that we could consider pests.
Well, I would argue that bees are never pests, personally.
And partially because in some of my reporting, I showed how farmers in Kenya, for example, are using beehives to keep elephants away from their fields.
Bees are important pollinators.
They're really great for that.
They are sometimes important predators, which is really nice.
This is a wide definition of bees, obviously.
But yes, I mean, I would say you don't necessarily want these animals living in close quarters with you.
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