Peter S. Goodman
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Jun
Peter S. Goodman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But you have to look at things a little more expansively than that.
I mean, again...
Think about the butterfly effect, all of the ripple effects that can't be undone in a few weeks or maybe even years.
I mean, I went to a training program in Dolo in Somalia that used to be funded by USAID.
It trained people to be seamstresses.
And when I was there, they had no threat.
They didn't have chemicals for their sewing machines and enrollment had crashed.
Now, this is not the most acutely needed sort of program if you're thinking about feeding people tomorrow, but it's vital in terms of building up some upward mobility.
Think about that times a million.
You know, Rachel, I've been doing this sort of work a long time.
I spent a lot of time in conflict zones and disasters.
You know, in 2004, I was in Thailand the day of the tsunami.
I went to Indonesia, and I saw and heard stories that will haunt me forever.
I saw 200 bodies in Thailand set up at this makeshift morgue lying out in the sun.
I heard parents recounting how their children had been yanked out of their arms by this wave
I mean, I don't really like the sort of Olympics of suffering.
And yet, what I saw in Somalia was enraging as well as gutting, because what happened in the Indian Ocean tsunami was, as they say, an act of God.
And what I was seeing in Somalia was the product of a series of political decisions.
It was made by human beings.
You have hundreds of millions of people who, by dint of climate change, cuts to the aid system, the impacts of the war, are now in these sort of purgatory situations, and we're still at the beginning stages of it.
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