Julia Shaw

But are you seeing anything?

Interesting, right?

And most people with aphantasia don't realize they have it until they have this kind of conversation.

I didn't know.

I have a hypothesis that people who are analytical are more likely to... I think it intersects with other things.

Because a lot of my friends, turns out, have aphantasia, and I think it's... There's a version of intelligence, I think, that it might be related to, or an interest in certain kinds of concepts that it's related to.

But I don't know, because it's early days of research on this.

So the book Green Crime is really an experiment for me in whether we can apply criminological and criminal psychology ideas to the area of environmental protection.

And crimes, because there are people who are convicted of crimes, who are convicted of crimes specifically in relation to destroying the earth and our natural resources, our shared resources.

I sometimes think about the earth as like a house.

And if someone was coming into your house and just setting things on fire and then walking out unpunished, you'd be really upset.

And correctly so.

Or poisoning your water or just like leaving a bunch of garbage all over your house.

And that's what people are doing on a planetary scale.

And the question is, are we responding effectively?

And if so, who?

Who is responding effectively?

And then what is the adequate punishment?

How should we deal with the people who we catch?

And so...