Trevor Noah

You're telling me we've made all these movies about a thing that happened two times.

So I have a theory for this, but I don't know if it's right or it's wrong.

When I read through like old historical accounts of like explorers and travelers, people who are going around the world hunting, one of the things I've learned is whether they were colonizers or whether they were just like hunters,

One of the most powerful tools they used to justify what they were doing was turning the subject of their action into like a dangerous villain.

You get what I'm saying?

And so it's a lot easier, I think, to have people not judge you for killing wolves and, you know what I mean, taking their furs,

if you tell them that you're protecting them.

What do you think people don't get about conservation?

Because you've said it a few times, you know, it's like, not just because they're cute, not just because they're nice.

Like when I was growing up, that's all I watched in most nature documentaries.

It was sold as like this idea of like, they won't be here anymore.

That's why we need to protect them because they won't be here anymore.

And then it almost seemed like it's the novelty

that justifies us protecting an animal.

Yeah, it was just like, it's the right thing to do.

This is a cute animal that you'll never get to see.

That's why you need to protect it.

Yeah, tell me more, tell me more.

Even like disease is what I've learned on some of these things.

Because I love nature documentaries, I often wonder to myself, aren't we getting in the way of evolution?