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Matt Kielty

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1691 total appearances

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Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

For me, reading about this study, I found it personally, I found it quite jarring.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

I think I really wanted there to be like a hidden order to everything that is not about us, that has nothing to do with us, where things make sense.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

And for that not to be there, I think is very unsettling.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Like when we do conservation or restoration or whatever, it just feels like you'd be throwing your hands up.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

My thought was like, if the order is gone, if there is no guaranteed harmony, that actually makes conservation work even more important.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

It's like if we don't intervene and protect the order, it's not guaranteed.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Who cares about your choices if it's chaos anyway?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

If there are things that are beyond your control that are going to screw it all anyway.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

It's like the idea of the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

I don't think it does, which is terrifying.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

So what you do, you have to fabricate a form of justice.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

And yeah, there's a pandemic.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Wait, can I interrupt you?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Okay, write that version of The Lion King.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

See how many kids go to see that.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Go, make the song.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Elton John, go for it.