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AP News Radio
China launches new crew for space station, with eye to putting astronauts on moon before 2030
"China has launched its first civilian astronaut to its space station as part of a new three person crew, the shenzhou 16 spacecraft lifted off from a launch center on the edge of the Gobi desert in northwestern China just after 9 30 a.m. local time. The crew will overlap briefly with three now aboard the tiangong station who will then return to earth after completing their 6 month mission. China built its own space station after it was excluded from the International Space Station with the hope of putting astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade. Their exclusion was largely down to U.S. concerns over the Chinese space programs intimate ties with the People's Liberation Army, the military branch of the ruling Communist Party. I'm Lawrence Brooks
The Dan Bongino Show
Part 2: TX Sen. Brian Birdwell Recalls Being at the Pentagon on 9/11
"Eventually get to Georgetown university hospital with a great staff there We'll give me my initial emergency room care But I'll say that last prayer with the hospital chaplain because I fully expect that I'm being called into eternity by the lord in these moments I would survive the lord would allow me to get with me That afternoon I don't know she's there but Mel will get to Georgetown That's its own harrowing story of what it took in the traffic there in those moments after impact to get to Georgetown and eventually I'd be life sliding over to the Washington hospital center mill would be taken through the Georgetown police department Georgetown university police department over to the hospital and she said it was just very eerie I mean the streets of D.C. have never been that empty Since Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States and there would be a number of challenges we'll go through I mean I could do it all the time to name them all but everything from having maggots put on me for three days to eat the infection dead tissue what happens to you in a burn unit ban is a burn injury is terrible but what has to be done to you medically as far worse But by the lord's grace I'm still here And so many things over the last 20 years that we thought that Mel would see as a widow whether it's Matt graduating high school or college getting married and now having two grandchildren We've gotten to see as a married couple And lord willing he'll give us more years and no matter what This is still the greatest place on God's green earth And if I may be so bold to our friends in Florida Texas is still the greatest place but Florida is of course
The Dan Bongino Show
Only 2 Ways to Solve Debt Crisis: National Bankruptcy or Productivity
"I see only two ways out of this National bankruptcy or productivity And that's it The idea of a national bankruptcy may seem bizarre because we can't go bankrupt like a chapter 11 because we can print money but folks I ask you this money's in exchange of value right We don't trade refrigerators for chickens right We don't barter You know you may laugh but the hard reality is throughout human history that's how we exchange value through barter You'd exchange your blacksmith services for some farmers eggs or whatever it may be The idea of money Yeah it's been around a while I mean we tobacco leaves her money but the idea of a central currency controlled by a behemoth we know is the Federal Reserve now This is the first time in human history This has been tried on this scale Money's just an article of faith now You ever thought about that I mean it's only paper It doesn't do anything If there was a zombie apocalypse tomorrow and someone said hey I'll give you a $100 for that Last Big Mac on Planet Earth You'd be like what the hell am I going to use a $100 Is that even more It's a piece of paper I use it for fire Pretender We are going bankrupt Our money if we keep going down this trajectory has the potential and the strong potential to be worthless Worthless in the sense that it won't acquire you the decent middle class lifestyle you used to You know again I'll say it like I said in the opening of the show folks if you look and study human history the course of human history has been marked with pillage plunder and poverty It just has We are one of the first countries in the history this rock we live on calling earth called earth That is enabled a middle class lifestyle that resembles that of the filthy rich even a hundred years ago The ways you can communicate the foods you can eat these are things that weren't available to civilizations before the United States set the standard through capitalism and freedom of prosperity matched nowhere else on Planet Earth
The Dan Bongino Show
Target Partners With Satanist Brand to Create Items for ‘PRIDE’ Merch
"Target the big retailer partnered with a satanist to create a couple of items for the pride collection Is it an amazing by the way the bigotry that's going on here So they've got an entire section of the store that's cast in rainbow colors that they say is for Pride Month The rainbow famously a symbol of God's promise not the flood the earth again in the wake of the flood And now being used to advance the financial interests of satanists How about that Target has been selling products made by the Satan brand Abraham including a messenger bag that said we belong everywhere across trans flag colors and planets a tote bag with the message two queer for here beneath a UFO and a cure transphobia not trans people sweatshirt In other words abandoned gender confused people Don't help them Allow them to descend and to destroy themselves And give them an assist will you That's what the sweatshirt's message is So that's what target has been selling And here's what the Instagram of ab says I imagine what it would be like for a younger version of myself to see something more specific more tailor made than a lackluster rainbow flag I wanted to create a range that would embrace younger me and tell him that who he is is more than okay That being trans special and wonderful and that the closet is not made for him to thrive in That's what it says according to a prey lens Instagram post announcing the collaboration with target At pralines owner is a self described gay trans man based in London What is a gay trans man I'm pretty sure that's a straight woman A gay trans man The brand sells shirts pins and stickers with the design of a pastel goat head and the message Satan respects pronouns Quote get ready for this I can't even believe I'm reading these words Satan loves you and respects who you are
The Dan Bongino Show
The Truth About NYC Mayor Eric Adams and a Camera
"How many times How many times have I warned you about Eric Adams The mayor of New York City How many times innumerable It's getting sick thing now They're like all right enough fun We've heard it You don't have to keep telling us you warned that I totally understand I don't but he constantly is just rolling out new piles of dumb ideas that makes me go back to this thing I can't get over how many conservatives sometimes fall for this guy Like oh man this guy just mayor in New York This guy looks reasonable He is a crazy person He is a crazy person and the thing he just did about retail theft stealing all these videos you're seeing online people fleecing from drugstores everything This thing he just put out there is so ridiculous It should put to bed forever Any illusions that you're dealing with a guy who's not a crazy leftist I shouldn't say wait you know what Again precision matters He's not a crazy leftist atoms Adams is actually a reasonably street smart guy He's just weak He says weak And he will do anything to get in front of the cameos cameras and stay popular I want you to understand Eric Adams I was a police officer with him at the time We were not friends I didn't meet him personally but I was a cop when he was a cop Eric Adams the most dangerous place on Planet Earth was between Eric Adams and a camera He would say anything or do anything to get in front of a camera because he loves being famous more than he loves being mayor He will do or say anything To be that guy You know that guy That was a you didn't want to be that guy my last line of work They were like oh man there's that guy again That was always like a bad thing So the joke in this Secret Service would be don't be that guy That's Adams He's always that guy
AP News Radio
Space station welcomes 2 Saudi visitors, including kingdom's 1st female astronaut
"SpaceX's latest chartered flight to the International Space Station arrived Monday with two Saudis and two Americans aboard. Dragon SpaceX docking sequence completes crew dragon freedom, Peggy, John, Ali, ray, congrats on this historic achievement. The Saudi government is picking up the multi-million dollar tab for its astronauts. One, the kingdom's first female. Tennessee businessman John schaffner is paying his own way and retired NASA astronaut Peggy whitson, who now works for space company axiom was welcomed back. Thanks for putting your trust in the falcon 9 team. Hope you enjoyed the ride to space have a great trip on dragon. Welcome home to zero G Peggy. The four are expected to return to earth in 8 days they joined 7 others already at the International Space Station. I'm Julie Walker
Mark Levin
Our National Security & Defense Position Should Be 'Prudence'
"I have never preached that America shouldn't get involved in every war and every battle every corner of the earth That would be stupid Forever wars they call them I suppose It's hard to know how long a war is going to last before they end The Revolutionary War was of forever war I suppose But that doesn't mean you don't believe in national security and intervention When the time is right at what word best defines What our national security and our defense and military posture should be What one word He read liberty and tyranny chapter ten you know What is it Prudence It's not an ideological thing When it comes to the security of the United States prudence and so chapter ten is entitled self preservation Not defense not national security and liberty tyranny it's entitled self preservation That's the goal The conservative believes that the moral imperative of all public policy must be the preservation and improvement of American society So I love it when I'm lectured about this Because I wrote about it it's almost 20 years whenever it was Similarly the object of American foreign policy must be no different The founders recognized that America had to be strong politically economic culturally and yes militarily To survive and thrive in a complex ever changing global environment Not only in their time but for all time History bears this out After the revolution Revolutionary War the founders realized that the confederation was inadequate to conduct foreign affairs Since each state was free to act on its own
The Dan Bongino Show
Being a Congressman Now Is Not As Meaningful As Before
"Congress has been completely defenestrated They do nothing Specifically the House of Representatives side They do nothing Come on Dan No I mean it If you are not a chairman of a committee ask any insider up on Capitol Hill I'm not telling you they have no power And someone is saying they can still vote I'm telling you a congressman now compared to what a congressman could have done 50 years ago is a completely different thing It's a completely different thing Why Folks the administrative state everything from the bureau of Indian affairs to the FEC to the SEC to the FCC of the EPA all of these three letter agencies have been delegated through Chevron deference so much administrative power that Congress doesn't do anything anymore They don't do anything anymore They do nothing A lot of these programs Congress has the power of the person Do they Do they really we're going bankrupt Like it's the most predictable and largest bankruptcy in human history and everyone on Planet Earth knows about it Well why isn't Congress to meet Because the answer is they've locked themselves in
The Dan Bongino Show
GOP House Judiciary Pokes Fun at Rep. Linda Sanchez's 'Real' Twitter
"By the way touche to the House judiciary GOP account at judiciary GOP who found an account Linda Sanchez on Twitter with like two followers Linda sans three one three 9 9 And said wow I didn't realize the Sanchez was so magical because the account tweeted out Donald Trump is the greatest president of my lifetime Touche daddy O touche It's legit Yeah totally She says Linda Sanchez Jim What else do you need I mean Jim's like questioning It's not Linda Sam Come on Jim Get with the program I mean it says Linda Sanchez right there I mean no one else's named Linda Sanchez That's just her Like Marcus Allen I mean mark is no one in Marcus I mean Alan Albert last name Allen who has that last name It's like one of them out there I mean come on guy Marcus That was Eddie Murphy's name in boomerang Okay Remember earth they can't Okay I was like wow that she was rough
The Dan Bongino Show
Madison Czopek Is 'One of the Dumbest People' at PolitiFact
"Now that the Jim comer then put out indisputable evidence of millions of dollars of bank transactions going to the Biden crime family from enemies of the United States Jim I got to send you this The legendary Madison show peck and by legendary I mean one of the dumbest people at she is rivaling Jacob Reyes for the gold medal of stupid but don't worry She wrote for the Columbia missourian first so she's got mad skills She's like fact checking House Republicans findings about the Biden's family's foreign business practices explain and she goes on to write about an 800 word piece about how the Republican bank records don't really show Joe Biden had any involvement No no no no that's right Madison That's right I'm sure during your investigative work at the Columbian Missouri or something like that I'm sure the fact that one of the business partners to the deal was willing to testify to the FBI who said that the 10% was being held for the big guy in an email sent to other business partners in the deal and that the big guy was Hunter Biden You are correct There is no evidence whatsoever Joe Biden's involved Madison listen let me give you a little piece of advice I don't know you you don't know me Again I say this often You're going to have kids one day You may have them now I don't know They're going to your kids are going to develop separately of you So you've got to be sure one day that when they look at you they don't have to tell their kids and their relatives and I don't know her I don't know her This is a permanently on the record what you're doing You running cover for the most corrupt money laundering money influencing pay for play whatever you want to call it operation potentially an American human history when it comes to politics at that level It's really going to be a disgrace to your family moving forward I know it's not a disgrace to you You don't have any morals You wrote the piece Like I get that I know you don't have any dignity Like I understand that You work in PolitiFact Nobody does who are actually PolitiFact I mean you've got the dumbest human beings on Planet Earth over there
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Joe Biden Shuts Down Oil Production in Alaska
"Go now to Joe Biden's White House speech? I wish you would. We're going to the president is in complete control of the border. There is no open border and he's not worried at all. He gave a speech at The White House yesterday, cut number 7. I declared the entire U.S. article off limits to new oil and gas development period. We ran the process and protect more than 13 millionaire, 13 million acres of significant natural historic value in the Alaskan national petroleum reserve. And I protected the boundary waters of canoe area, wilderness, surrounding wetlands in Minnesota. Look, that's the most serialized we are we have energy inflation. We have energy inflation and the president is bragging on shutting down oil production in Alaska. And we want electric cars for which we need rare earth minerals not from China or dug up by ten year old boys in the Congo. And that actually is in the boundary waters. Tidal basin. It's in the watershed of the boundary waters. It's not inside the park. And he won't let Minnesota twin mining or twin mines, I believe it's called. They won't let them dig. So
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Trump Dominated CNN and an Immigration Pearl Harbor
"Day today. And I'm very tempted, and I was debating with the producers a little bit about this. I'm very tempted to get right into president Trump doing windmill 360 dunks on CNN all night, which was a delight anyone with half a sense of humor probably had the best news day of the year yesterday doing that. But it is a huge day and a negative sense. Because tonight, as we heard in the intro, at midnight, it is the end of title 42 title 42 is the thinnest veil of border security that we have in this country. We have very little, but it begins with title 42, which actually comes from the CDC's authority. Now why is that? It's a tool to remove migrants and send them back to their nation's country in the name of public health. Now, this applied during the pandemic, but shouldn't this apply all the time? Isn't this just about the best possible reason to have a border? To keep people out who are perhaps unhealthy, perhaps bringing drugs, perhaps bringing disease, it in fact is one of the main functions of a border in a sane society, and it's probably why just about every country on earth has a border. In fact, we're fighting a border war right now, just so happens to be in Ukraine against the Russians. But our own border, we're going to be letting it wide open more so than it already is. So
The Charlie Kirk Show
Even Off the Air, Tucker Carlson Continues to Dominate the News
"Want to start with Tucker. The Tucker news is I think earth shattering. I don't think there's when Fox made the move to pull him off the air. Now I very carefully did not say fire him because reportedly they are still paying him. They are paying him to keep him quiet and to keep them sidelined. Well, it doesn't look like that's going to work. So let's start just first and foremost with some of what he had to say. He dropped his second video since the debacle with Fox. The second one on Twitter, and now interestingly, enough he says he's going to be coming back to Twitter. That's where he's going to be doing these segments. We don't know how long they're going to be. We don't know if it's an hour long format. We don't know if it's going to be minute by minute. But it is going to be on Twitter. Now, Elon has come out and he gave him kind of a chilly response. So this has a lot of people talking. He says, on this platform, unlike the one way street of broadcast, people are able to interact critique and refute whatever he or anyone may say. And of course, anything misleading will get community notes. Now, if you're not a Twitter native, Elon's tenure on Twitter has one very dramatic difference from old Twitter, and that's called community notes. That's where they don't remove content or censor it, but they do add notes to it that get voted up or down by users of the platform. And so you might see something from a Democrat nowadays that is absolutely a lie. And guess what? You'll see it in community notes and that really offends the leftists that have never been subjected to this kind of critique. It's not censorship, but it is a different context. So Elon Musk is coming right out of the gate saying, you will get community notes too as well, Tucker. It says Tucker is subject to the same rules and rewards of all content creators, rewards mean subscriptions, and advertising revenue share, which is a function of how many people subscribe in the advertising views associated with his content.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Will Fauci and Collins Ever Face the Music? Dr. Simone Gold Weighs In
"Fauci or Francis Collins will ever have to face any music? I used to say no. I used to say that I think they're going to just get away with it on this earth. But I'm not so sure. There's been a lot of people clamoring for their next. I put it at I think they might have to face the music. By the way, America's frontline doctors is getting into that space. Okay. Well, I say this just because, you know, just to let people know, you know, a number of years ago, I would have thought of doctor Francis Collins as a friend. And an ally. And what I have seen is very difficult to process.
The Dan Bongino Show
Washington Times: Colleges Expand 'Segregated' Graduation Events
"So now that we've taken a vote over both the podcast and the radio show and there's not a single vote suggesting that racial segregation had any positive effects whatsoever We all realize it is an immoral stain on our country and evil awful thing to do to separate people out by the color of their skin You will be deeply disturbed to know that liberals are bringing segregation back segregation is back and the libs are loving every minute They're celebrating right now Liberals are like yes come on Dan you're being ridiculous I am not that tip grade Rush Limbaugh paper flip Washington times Sean salai Colleges expand segregated graduation events There is not you understand there's not an idea on Planet Earth too stupid for liberals to bring back Let's let government run healthcare You mean the same government that can't even run the post office You mean that government The same government they can't even operate a DMV at the local level You want them to crack your chest open Yeah man You want to bring back segregation Here are some of the universities expanding their menu of these segregated graduation events Georgetown university of Oklahoma Illinois state grand valley state Michigan You believe this
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak Reflects on the Significance of the British Monarchy
"To John S mirak. Oh my goodness. John, this weekend. King Charles the third was officially crowned all very ritualistic. I spoke at length to Naomi wolf about it in our one. Do you have any observations on that event? Yeah, I'm really, really glad the British monarchy survives. Even though it doesn't wield any power, even though I'm a half Irish. And I'm almost genetic, you know, my genes scream at the British monarchy, the way yours do at the Ottoman Empire, Eric. Being Greek. But as an American, I need to recognize that our freedoms are ordered liberty, come from no place else, but England. That the peculiar history of the English monarchy, and its relationship to the English parliament and the English people. The back and forth battle for power between the king, the parliament and the people, has produced the freest society in the history of the world. And it's interesting that our independence was a rebellion against Great Britain. Great Britain was the freest society on earth at the time. We wanted more. But the point is we weren't rebelling against the Ottoman Empire or the Mongol conic cons. We were rebelling against a pretty darn good monarchy that for hundreds of years had been subjecting the king's powers to the power of parliament. Starting in the 1300s with the Magna Carta, the English monarchs had century John. I'm sorry. Thank you. 13th century. With the Magna Carta, the English monarchs had to ask the parliament for taxes. The power of the purse was in the hands of the nobility and then of the common people.
The Eric Metaxas Show
The Invasion of 700,000 Immigrants About to Charge Into the U.S.
"There's always a million things to cover with you. Where do we start? Well, the crazy, the absolute madness and anarchy that Joe quote President Biden has unleashed on our country. 7 100,000 immigrants are going to storm our borders in a few days. No reason is given as to why this is a good idea. Why this benefits America? How these people are entitled to just storm into the country. There's just no reason given it. It fits the Biden political agenda, which is to destabilize destroy and displace the mainstream population of America to break up the Anglo Protestant America that was the founding for core group, black and white, and to replace it with a complete Mardi Gras mixture of people from everywhere, thrown together, cut off from their traditional communities, secularized in public schools, homogenized, through leftist and gay activist propaganda, basically the opposite of everything that our founders had in mind when they founded the United States, everything tocqueville talked about when he described why Americans were the freest people on earth and also the most religious. It's as if somebody did a systematic study of everything that functions and works about the United States and decided to destroy each and every one of those things. Financial.
AP News Radio
Veteran 'enamored' with Hitler gets 4 years for Capitol riot
"A military veteran was sentenced to four years in prison for storming the U.S. capitol. Hatchet speed from Virginia told an undercover FBI agent more than a year after the riot about his admiration for Adolf Hitler, calling him one of the best people that's ever been on this earth and told the agent about a plan to wipe out the nation's Jewish population. Prosecutors say speed joined the Proud Boys, was deeply worried about Joe Biden's presidency and believe false claims the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. Ed Donahue, Washington.
Rewilding Earth
"earth" Discussed on Rewilding Earth
"Which we took it. Get the idea that throughout history. There's very short history. This industrial history. That no agency has really ever much said. No you think that somewhere down the road and agency would say would i be keyed in with developers and industry enough to be able to see what they're planning and and be able to come in and just say no. You can't do that. This only supports ten thousand people incrementally said yes to every single them even if we said oh well do a little bit better than that or you know you. Can't you know you do have to have a low flow release but we have incrementally said yes to so many things. We are so well past listening to what is being offered to us what the is offering us and if we could really put our ear to the ground and understand what's offered in use it in that kind of sustainable way m make those decisions make those agencies make decisions based on that but it's not the case we haven't we haven't made those kind of limitations on you know we We've we've let a lot of industries in a lot of development decisions. Go too far. And we're out of doubts were significantly out of balance. A no group would probably know that better than your own. If you were talking to farmer in indiana or iowa who had some riverside farmland and was actively working to Over the years and seen lots of floods and gotten washed out but bailed out by the government so it really didn't matter their flood plains. And they were telling you you you would like them to not farm in those areas. Is there any upside to them. Not doing so like. How would you tell that farmer. It would actually be good for you and more profitable if you if you did not farm. All of your flood plains. Well you know. I think i think there are a lot of farmers that do know that i mean they are tied to the earth. See these systems. And i think the big industry farmers might not see that as much but i think other farmers no the land well no that example flood plains are fertile areas but that round can only stay fertile so long if then disconnected with what made it fertile in the first place you know so i think a lot of them understand those processes and are looking for sustainable solutions. I don't work a lot with the agricultural side of things. But my guess is when you're talking to an individual who knows a lot about the land that they have maybe farm for generations. I think they are much more open minded to ways to make it available for future generations to and they remember things like the dust bowl and when we went clearly too far with things like that but i think when we start thinking about art at agriculture on an industrial basis. I think then they don't care the bottom line basically says uses much of it as you possibly can to make the biggest prophet right now and then move on go somewhere else or do whatever and i don't think we're looking at a multi generational views sometimes in industry and that saddens me. I think it's gotten us to where we are. And i think anyone the lick of sense who is not a complete narcissist cares about other generations and not just about their own pocketbook during this life and if that really is all care about that's a that's a sad delight they have. I really really believe him. Farmers do on him. You're proud of what they did for our country. I think the ones again that really have been on the land a long time. They know it and they do want to make a difference. So you're a professional. You're an engineer. You're in the nitty gritty of all of this stuff and you're not not you're not professionally an activist and a lotta people see people in the conservation when you put movement at the and they think. Oh everybody you're talking about is an activist or whatever but you are big into conservation like as big as people can be. And you're a professional and i want to give people tools if they think what you do. What you talked about today is really really cool. How could they find out more about being more like you. And i would say at the beginning of that conversation just on a. I don't think the two are separate to be a professional and know something about these systems. is also to be an advocate for for these systems and future generations. I mean we have to be the voice for what we know. River can't speak for itself so we have to be its voice and as far as than how to become What i've gone to work as a consultant right now but i did work as chief engineer for american rivers for quite some time to Again i do believe that this is all integrated into what it should be doing as an engineer. I have multi trained myself. I've gotta mix background. And i think a lot of people in my field do so. I have an undergrad civil engineering and actually focused more on structural back then but very quickly went into water. Resource did a lot of ecological design and water resource type classes and sediment transport glasses and then got my masters in environmental science and environmental management. So of are also taken a lot of ecology in fisheries classes contaminant transport classes. So you have to bring that all in and i know that are from one Wants to hire passionate people. So you're looking for someone with a passion but you also want to have these skill sets when you're doing what i do. It is nice if you get the underground engineering but keep it diverse. When you're getting it on and then bring in more sciences either. Get a minor or go on for a master's in more of the sciences as well. Something like fluvial geomorphology ecology or environmental management. You wanna bring in all these sides and we're never doing this alone. So engineer like myself is always working with folks who are straight out. Scientists biologists aquatic ecologist. Folks who really know a lot about contaminant transport and just the intricacies of the ecological system we create a team that works together in brainstorms on these things together to come up with the best solution and a team of just engineers alone would would never be the right choice and a team of just scientists alone sometimes is not the right choice or you need that professional engineer to do the plans in the construction side of it team together yet that whole group together and keeping your own education diverse. And then when you're out looking for a career in this neck networking with people find the people who are doing what you love and column and have lunch with them. And don't you don't even have to say. hey. I want a job. What you say is hey. I'm interested in what you do. Let me sit and learn more about it and when you leave that meeting if they didn't have a job for you then you're talking to the people that they sent you to as well so you're leaving any of these meetings with new names and a bigger network to draw from when you find that core group of people doing what you love is not even feel like work to you. It's going to be awesome. Networking tip almost anybody in your line of work can be bribed with tacos. I've people right people the people who would be good mentors anyway are fine. We spending fifteen minutes with you on a phone call to talk about what they do for. A living might even have lunch with you. I want you know almost once a month with people who have some kind of interest in this field. And i like that. It doesn't mean. I'm ready to hire them right now. But maybe they're going to go on and become the regulator that. I have to talk to in the future or maybe they're going to go to a nonprofit india a client of mine building our network just makes our voice. Louder makes us stronger. Laura thank you so much for taking the time.
Rewilding Earth
"earth" Discussed on Rewilding Earth
"And be sure to sign up for our weekly newsletter. While you're there. Laura waldman is practice area lead at bio habitats. She's a fisheries and water resource engineer with expertise in river restoration dam removal fish passage and habitat risk management for dams and sustainable flood control. Today i talked with laura about the scope of the damn problem in the united states. A little surprised that we actually don't know how many dams there are in the us but there are a lot and for engineers like laura they represent a vast project to remove dams in order to restore aquatic connectivity throughout the united states. Laura wild then. And i'm a water resource engineer but i specialize in fisheries engineering and ecological restoration engineer. And i'm a specialist bureau and the removal of dams also Things like fish ladders when we can't take out dan but But primarily the restoration rivers through the removal of dams and i have been with bio habitats since last december. Didn't one of those coveted job moves which is always a little strange but i have been down to main office since then. I've opened their on. Northeast highlands and coastal bio region appear in glastonbury connecticut. And that's going to be pretty much all of new england and it's inclusive of new york as well along without. We have hudson valley by retailers vol. And i'm a practice lead our practice lead of focusing again on river restoration issues and primarily aquatic connectivity issues so fish passage and restoration of migratory fish. Can you give us a sense of the scope of of our damn problem like how. How do you have to categorize for the size and types of dams. Is that easier or do you. Just say there's four hundred thousand dams all over the place and yeah here's the funny thing about that. They are so many. We don't have a good count anywhere in the us or in europe. They're trying to get a count on them right now in europe. We don't have a good count and isn't that so surprising. So we have Individual states have damn office damn safety and they know the dams that they define as dance so every single state defines a damn different like different heights different impoundment size so each one of them is keeping track of only the dams that they consider dams that have to be regulated so a certain size or a certain size impoundment and then the federal government. The national elementary of dams has a really big inventory. The biggest of the inventories and it includes dams again only over a certain size and they even have kind of a higher ladder. Often their dams are like twenty five feet or higher bigger in payments. So a lot of people there talking about how many barriers honey dams do. We have in the us. They refer to ninety thousand something. Because that's how many are in the national inventory interesting enough that is just a fraction of so it's just a fraction that doesn't include a lot of the dams that are even in the state inventories especially in the states that have like a lower height met might say anything over. Six feet is damn enin. Estate inventories include tons and tons of offline dams or dams under six feet or dams. They're just not at concern with or they don't have another enough staff to even go out and figure out. How many dams are just incomplete inventories We're left with with not really knowing. How many and those are. Those are just dan's when we're talking about aquatic in activity we talk about covert crossings in bridge crossings. That can have aquatic connectivity problems. We talk about a levies and old railroad embankments along the science of rivers. That can have a A lateral connectivity. Issue too so no. It's amazing that we really don't have a solid feel for the scale of the issue. Well of course our flagship damn that receives the bulk of scorn in the united states. Among conservationists is is is got to be lake foul and glen canyon You know just because it's such a story thing. It's you know the beginning of the united. It's such a big deal and it's the damn that killed him. I think they said it was the damage they killed him broke his star. Yeah yeah yeah. I mean definitely and and there are a lot i mean we do. We've done a couple of podcasts. On on the dams in the northwest and the salmon stuff It's so easy to paint a picture of salmon and that at that connectivity issue And people have done it really well and consistently and a lot for the last. You know forty years Severely in the last twenty years. So i think that's what a lot of people think about when they think about dams but i've been through Some of your material and some of the material on bio habitat dot com and. I recall pictures of pretty dag on smallish dams like blockages. Not even like a doesn't look anything like a glen canyon dam. It doesn't look you know. It's not that scale but those are extreme. That's probably the most of them right and they're extremely important in the work that you do whether or not they are there and when you can go and fix those problems now. That's very very true. And i often start my talks by asking people to pitcher a dam in their head and then showing bitches wanna like hoover Lent gain scale dams versus. You know the little four foot. Six foot old mill dam or industrial down Just around the corner in the town living in and a lot of people automatically think these really big ones so they also think when they think what i do for a living they think. Oh you're trying to take out all dance you're trying to dig out. Hoover dam and it's of course not the case at all the majority of what we're removing from rivers our old industrial and old mill dams. That haven't been used in over one hundred and and we're left when the industry's stopped using or or move to themselves just left in the streets in left in the streams not serving any kind of economic purpose but still having a enormous amount of ab logical impact on system can activity what are the effects that those things have. And what's before and after view of like a project that you've been on before in terms of the return of species the connectivity and what that meant for biodiversity in the area well like i said i love smallest. We're kind of a range. So i was lucky enough to work on a lot of kind of the larger scale. Campaigns open may on main on of ponobscott there the kennedy back the presents scott And because on those we've seen just tremendous amount of fish coming back into those systems so when edwards dam was removed in nineteen ninety nine huge amounts of fish. That came back. I don't even have the number right in front of me but it was multifold tenfold quite full but i think maybe maybe even us check something like seventy full on on the dan on a fish returning to that system but then same with on the pop scott system to dams removed Was involved in the great works in the visi dam removals and high helen bypass channel.
Rewilding Earth
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"I mean it's every four years. Wolves are listed wolves or delisted. We nature and people like us can't live like that we can't go for years at a time and then just completely at breakneck turn one eighty and go in the other direction. It just doesn't work that way. It's not to be going back and forth like that until there has to be something else right. How do we measure what's going on the ground. Like i could ask you now. What are your favorite success stories. It's not like you're starting with a blank sheet of paper in iowa. You guys have been working for a long time. And i know you have stories. I'm seeing within the concentration of our moral people in iowa that i know you know. We spent most of our careers. Most of our lives going. Oh my god here's another. They're killing something. They're not doing me fight to save his little place and i think in the process. We get beat up pretty bad but when we take prairie for example because the prairie people. I really admire here. And and and so but now we've got a lot more per it's come and the spreading of the prairie understanding is really grassroots going out because we're white and we don't have montagnards well if we put some prairie back we'd have a place for the monarchs you know. Change his here Understanding of your place in that Disturbed habitat and you realize that disturbances is always going to continue on. And that's not necessarily a bad thing you know. It opens up opportunity. It's like we're having the discussion of basis species and all invasive species aren't bad you know in certain certain way because some very quickly Transforming soil towards something else could grow there and then they kinda die off and then the the species was there previously now has hair previously now has habitat in healthier Back into understanding that flow of life in your place in that flow you start finding the beauty and the prairie.
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"View of the world gets smaller and smaller. What you talk about in your article is basically what we've done around the country and around the world people who have adopted our national park idea our wilderness idea things like that parks. We have just put like you say in the article. Just grid lines on the map. Saying here's farming. Here's mountains and then what we come up with is a map that most people in the country are really far away from these protected lands. Love would love to visit him in order to do so they have to do some pretty expensive travel not just financial but to the earth to get there so that's basically off limits to most people in the country who cannot or will not or for any other reason will travel to yellowstone to all these places you got that over there and then somebody before all of us were born. Said you know what this place right here this is. This is where we're not going to have a national parks fantastically rich. We're just gonna grow on every square inch of this area. And it's okay. Because you guys have those wilderness areas over there. You have those parks over there and have boundary waters up there. You have all this stuff so leave this part because we have to feed ourselves and they come up with that very good argument. There's all these people. What are they gonna eat and writing that pretty much shuts down all discussion constructive or not around the topic. Because you can't really argue exactly with that and you know somebody's gonna go to their grave on on that issue if you push them on it so end of discussion and so that's what that's what. This big giant area in the middle of america looks like it. Looks like the end of discussion. Here we have to feed people and there. You can have your park over there and most of you can't visit it because it's too far away too expensive to get there but it's there aren't you happy you wanna wilderness..
Rewilding Earth
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"I'm still Just in the throes realizing how wild it is where i live and yet where i live is the most biologically altered state north america. We've converted roughly ninety eight percent of the state for ume needs farming mostly roads highways and cultural kind of things like that. And so. I feel like i've been really lucky. I have a numerous france that i still maintain visiting one. Those main couvert island and so for example. And so i get to go to these places still. But i really like teasing him in particular like wait. You left i with this front on it. We don't figure out here where we're gonna figure it out. I mean he wanted to go over. There was something left a lot of friends in that but it became clear to me. I go visit those places like going to wilderness areas. But really the wildness is about more my relationship to my place wherever i am and so i've really come to love. I will bear very deeply and lake. I love it a lot. Because of what's been done to in a very short amount of time and yet i see potential there that i don see other places and i think that's really how i got into the reviled and so here. I am with the re wilding nut connecting with the people. I know and so i met roger. Ross give for this process and we kind of formed a partnership and Ross is extremely important in my life at that time because he's very challenged to me. We both agreed on. We were following rewinding We at read most all the same odd. We read most all the same books in southern deep understanding the language of each other but we came from past history a whole different way as was a local agricultural a business And here's mine trying to work with all the different environmental organizations trying to learn every plant species all that kind of level and between the two of us. I challenge each other tremendously and that's I think would really Catchers be wild Wild ethic that we're trying to do. We're both trying to learn how to be wilder and what rewinding me. And it's changed me tremendously. I just keep reading and reading a read most of this stuff before. How do i apply that to my own thing about. I don't have to wilderness anymore. I used to go a lot and well supposed to grow up. I still love places. I still find that interesting. But i have never been a wilder place in one sense of the word than i am where i live now on. I and i'm surrounded by corn beans. Two thirds of the statements covered into animal species. It's absolutely frightening how that green curtain and what's frightening is how people look at it and see that as a agreeing healthy thing on the national level what was being addressed was wilderness series or what we have stuff that's left. Where can we
Rewilding Earth
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"I'm still Just in the throes realizing how wild it is where i live and yet where i live is the most biologically altered state north america. We've converted roughly ninety eight percent of the state for ume needs farming mostly roads highways and cultural kind of things like that. And so. I feel like i've been really lucky. I have a numerous france that i still maintain visiting one. Those main couvert island and so for example. And so i get to go to these places still. But i really like teasing him in particular like wait. You left i with this front on it. We don't figure out here where we're gonna figure it out. I mean he wanted to go over. There was something left a lot of friends in that but it became clear to me. I go visit those places like going to wilderness areas. But really the wildness is about more my relationship to my place wherever i am and so i've really come to love. I will bear very deeply and lake. I love it a lot. Because of what's been done to in a very short amount of time and yet i see potential there that i don see other places and i think that's really how i got into the reviled and so here. I am with the re wilding nut connecting with the people. I know and so i met roger. Ross give for this process and we kind of formed a partnership and Ross is extremely important in my life at that time because he's very challenged to me. We both agreed on. We were following rewinding We at read most all the same odd. We read most all the same books in southern deep understanding the language of each other but we came from past history a whole different way as was a local agricultural a business And here's mine trying to work with all the different environmental organizations trying to learn every plant species all that kind of level and between the two of us. I challenge each other tremendously and that's I think would really Catchers be wild Wild ethic that we're trying to do. We're both trying to learn how to be wilder and what rewinding me. And it's changed me tremendously. I just keep reading and reading a read most of this stuff before. How do i apply that to my own thing about. I don't have to wilderness anymore. I used to go a lot and well supposed to grow up. I still love places. I still find that interesting. But i have never been a wilder place in one sense of the word than i am where i live now on. I and i'm surrounded by corn beans. Two thirds of the statements covered into animal species. It's absolutely frightening how that green curtain and what's frightening is how people look at it and see that as a agreeing healthy thing on the national level what was being addressed was wilderness series or what we have stuff that's left. Where can we
Rewilding Earth
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"For sixty years. My name is mark. I was raised in a military so we lived all over the world. I moved from japan in tokyo. Actually big city to a small city of sergeant Thirty two people in our graduating high school class was quite a transition for me but it was on the edge of the left sales and so i was quickly skipping school..
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"That just as he was deceived by The Serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. Second Corinthians chapter 11 three these words tell us how evil was deceived by the evil to turn them against God. When he looked at the huge shape and size of serpent which came in the shape of dragon or dinosaur with its sharp teeth from the huge jaws she was speechless and was bound to believe her deceived words, as it was written in Bible, that humans will lose hope of subduing it. The mere sight of it is overpowering. I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and disgraceful form, who can strip off its outer coat, who can penetrate its stubble coat of armor, who dares open the doors of its mouth ringed about with fearsome teeth. Its back has rows of shields tightly sealed together, each is so close to the next that no air can pass between. They are joined fast to one another, they cling together and can not be parted. Its snorting throws out flashes of light, its size are like the rays of dawn. Flames stream from its mouth, sparks of fire shoot out, smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. Its breath sets curls ablaze and flames dart from its mouth. Strength resides in its neck, dismay goes before it. The folds of its flesh are tightly joined, they are firm and immovable. Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a low and millstone, when it rises up, the mighty are terrified they retreat before its thrashing, job chapter 41 verses 9 and 12 to 25. These words once again clarify that this huge monster is not a secret about it has limbs and neck which resembles only then existed dinosaur species. God on seeing the nature and arrogance of this monster he cursed its shape, which makes humans to tremble, so the lord God said to The Serpent, because you have done this, cursed are you above all live stock and all wild animals? You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. Genesis three verse 14 God brought down its shape which made her proud among all the livestock and wild animals. No species were destroyed by God but except dinosaur. God destroyed only dinosaur because he wanted humans to rule the world and its inhabitants. Then God said, let us make mankind in our image. In our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the live stock and all the wild animals, and over all the.
PODSHIP EARTH
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"I think you can have the most influence the as i say the tip of the spear to make a change so i mean in some ways that's predictable given given the pace of journalism like we're on news cycles that a you know now in the minutes not in days and and you get the time to still sink one of the things. I noticed And you did this. Yo thaddeus animas serie show your own almost spiritual focus on the interconnectedness of life and nature and whether it's the concept of by filial just your own sense of of way you are in new hampshire. Now tell us about about how you view your place in the world. I think that is important for us to not see. Our satisfaction is to how high are pile of money is as to how well are we fitting into what some would call creation some call nature our place here and i think it's interesting by the way that some folks the most extractive folks put focus on money and yet money has no value if it's outside of society right you're in the middle of the desert and you have you know like a huge gold bar and there's no water. I mean how you going to drink. A lot of people have woken up to the existential threat of climate. That understanding that Just blind extraction for economic development for the few is not gonna be helpful to us and fortunately the notion of environmental justice puts a spotlight on on things simply being done for the few things need to be done for the many really for all of us have a right to be here all of us and not just to survive but to thrive and sometimes i feel uncomfortable at the level privilege that i have. I can walk out my back door in the summer. I can ski out my back door in the winter and enjoy the bounty of nature. And i want everybody to have that privilege because that's out in nature where you really get to feel truly human..
PODSHIP EARTH
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"We're not awfully friendly to that. And i always love hearing from the more conservative types. Who are asking questions about. You know trying to verify something that they've heard because then i feel like we are doing an educational job. That's really powerful. Because we need more people to get on board for this because it's a fundamental change. We're asking people to make huge and to that. Point is the that is a big difference between radio and podcasting podcasting kind of concentrates people on the things that are already interested in but you are able to reach people who just listening. They're driving home cooking and radio. Still kind of a great equalizer. I don't know what the answer is in the podcast world. Hopefully it is to have enough. Podcast have enough visibility that are across a spectrum of things so that somebody's curiosity can be peaked about this. So then they'll wanna go deeper. Okay so go comes as the vice president. Did it feel at that time. Like there was a lot of hope. It was still a very bipartisan. Sense what happened in your estimation over that ten. I ten year period to make more of a polarized political issue. One of the things that happen though that al gore felt that it was too risky for him really to go heavy on the climate inside the clinton administration. Al gore found himself in a very difficult position so in one thousand nine hundred seven. The kyoto protocol comes together. And it's clear from the maneuvering that was done by robert burdened chuck hagel in the senate That could be no agreement that would put the us commercial disadvantage and be. The developing countries had to go first which was such an insult to the developing countries. It's hard to accept a treaty to this day and so half of half of what needed to happen under. Kyoto also didn't happen that day. It got kicked on the road to a later session in the year. Two thousand unfortunately. The clinton gore administration moved forward with wanting to claim. All this credit for the at forestation we're growing trees like crazy in the united states and we should have credit for that well not only the developing countries. The brits and much of europe threw up their hands really want the us to get credit for growing trees. When you guys have got smoke stacks and all this kind of stuff. Give me a break very hard to campaign at the national level. If at that time at the fossil fuel industry hate you but then what happens at the fossil fuel industry said you know these democrats are dicey and so you get people like charles cope and his brother david but they started actually organizing to make sure that down the road so by the time we get to obama and the prospect of what we call waxman. Markey happening was well organized. It was well organized to make sure that it would fail..
PODSHIP EARTH
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"Because if you don't have an informed public you're not gonna have an informed electorate and when i began to understand that climate disruption could be an existential threat. I said this much bigger story than the usual thing. If we don't get the climate thing right nothing else will matter for our civilization there many many many important things so as a journalist. I said i gotta do this story because nobody was doing it when you started. This show was at the very beginning of people's consciousness about climate. There's another aspect as journalists of the drew this to me when i saw how little people are paying attention to it as a black man in white america. You get used to the establishment trying to marginalize and say. Oh it's not important. There's certain rules that they need to follow just as black people. Well if you follow the rules you will do nothing so you have to break the rules. And i knew the covering this stuff is not going to be popular in terms of ratings or getting underwriters. But i knew that the truth will set you free so that if we could get it this truth and do it in enough time that we free ourselves from the trajectory that That we were setting ourselves up for him and did did the votes the higher ups. Npr with a twisted like a hod celt had worked for a while at mpr. And so i knew people. And i said we're not going to do this as an npr show. We're going to do this as a as a show acquired by npr. So i'll go out and raise the money. And i'll get the people together you distribute the show for us but otherwise you're gonna leave me alone. The actual meeting that. I got permission to develop. The show was very simple. One i said. Hey this is what i wanna do and he said. Hey this is yeah sounds good. Do it go ahead. I mean it feels like there's been such an intentional blindsiding of environmental issues in in mainstream journalism and loudly that made the newsroom where hurricanes aren't really connected to climate change facility rates on connected to disruptors and so to have that support at the beginning. I mean sat you kind of on a good course. I deeply appreciated the this vision and even though it was hard for. Npr itself at time for example when during the second bush administrate the white house. Lean pretty hard on on npr to include the skeptics the scientific skeptics in the coverage and that was a pretty rough period of time. I if i've been in house they would have killed the show at that point but i ended up changing distributors at that point went to. Let's call pri now pr ex. It's amazing how many have you done on living on earth..
PODSHIP EARTH
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"Guess. I have to go way back. My mom academic College professor single mom. My dad died pretty young and I was the the last two children. So i was on my own. A lot on the college campuses. Antioch college. And i read a lot. The library was my home was my friend when i joined a boy scout troop and they asked. Could somebody write a little report about what troop is doing. I said yeah and they literally would edit it with a pencil and set it at the line of type and that will come out of a machine. I was totally fascinated. Oh my goodness this is so much fun. They also got involved radio as a kid. There was a public radio station. There they had some to radio drama so by the age of twelve. I had a wall inside recorder. I was dragging around in interviewing credible at twelve. So yeah it was twelve. I think what. I did my first round of interviews. I got hooked. It's amazing because if you think about the continuity of your career sound recording as a medium that transcends all other mediums had incredible lasting power it is a sound is the basis of much of our species. You hear something when you're inside your mother's tummy long before you see anything. We pass cultural long by singing. And speaking writing is just a representation of the spoken-word word then when it comes to television It can only see like one degree in front of you whereas sound is three hundred and sixty degrees at twelve already carrying around record a and observing the world around you and as a young boy of twelve kind of coming into the newsroom you whether role models of of folks they mental. Do you like how. How did that happen. The antioch college campus was a very interesting and diverse community and the music director on campus. Was african american by the name of walter anderson. I walked into walter's studio one day. And they're at the piano is eddie fisher. So i dunno husband number what who is taylor. I'm trying to remember it. Was that kind of community. Kereta scott king had been there as an undergraduate just before our time. Systemic racism is everywhere. So if i hadn't been in in a place like that. I certainly probably would not have been encouraged and then you had incredible success in your career you wanna pulitzer for the what you did on education you've done shows on opera. What would the threads that then led us dev's in ninety ninety one to to come up with a show living on so i was fortunate enough that when i was involved with npr. I became aware of what was going on in in the climate. Probably the summer of eighty nine. I went to visit george woodward who was researching this stuff and when he told me that if we allowed this to get out of hand the high arctic would start to warm. It would release methane that will make us warmer which would lead to more methane being released. Which would make us warmer. We'd be in a runaway reaction and having been a journalist to work to the boston globe under. Tom wind ship who i think there were seventeen. Pulitzer prizes on. Tom's watch as editor of the paper. It's pretty amazing record. Who said the constitution mentions the press..
PODSHIP EARTH
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"Long long time ago in a land where very few people had even heard the word climate change so much. His mattered from the sony. Walkman radio's steve cohen. A pulitzer prize winning journalist began his first broadcast of living on earth a groundbreaking inspiring and information packed. Environmental radio show. That was in nineteen ninety-one the same year and amateur videographer captured. The horrific beating of rodney king by lapd and the samia. Exxon was forced to pay one billion dollars to clean up the exxon valdez. Oil spill in alaska. In other words it was the beginning of a whole new chapter in american history. And steve cohen has through more than fifteen hundred episodes. Been our collective environmental chronicler and conscience today. Living on the broadcast through three hundred national public radio affiliates in the us and is expanding into podcasting in the early days living on earth was like an underground pirate radio station. 'cause the content was so radical compared to mainstream environmental coverage. Nine hundred. Ninety one was only three years after the full of the berlin wall and it felt like the secret. Police was still very uncomfortable with what steve was saying. And for steve. That was nothing new from an early age. His single black mom and quaker faith instilled in him a quiet forceful willingness to question authority and pursue the truth before radio. Steve cohen was a print and tv. Journalist i start by asking steve about a story that he broke in which the outwardly progressive polaroid company was selling the south african apartheid government. The camera and film equipment.
Rewilding Earth
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"Is embedded within the global ecosystem the ecosphere or the biosphere right and inherently limited by it and began to look Look at sustainability environmental sustainability as a goal and and trying to conceive of ways where it would be possible to minimize the so called throughput of the flow that is of energy and materials through the economy while maintaining a reasonably stable and satisfactory standard of living and quality of life. But they have been. This has been an. I've been calling an emerging field for decades. Now it's been around fifty years. It has never been accepted by mainstream neoclassical economics. So it's been given short shrift marginalized. And you know who knows what it'll take for this very sensible for economics to become the mainstream none of the progress that we talk about on these types of chats is possible without a governments and without politics. I mean that's just the way. And i think that's one of the reasons that What you just said is so true. We've made it's been out there but we've made no progress whatsoever on it all this time because the people who don't wanna talk about it and found it very easy to bury the topic i mean what level of change are we looking at here. I would say a profound fundamental or revolutionary change shock. And maybe we can do it in an evolutionary manner but the fact is that both mainstream political parties and all the non mainstream windsor wedded to growth. They're equally wedded to growth. Everyone believes and there's some truth to this that a rising tide lifts all boats as it is said but there isn't any acceptance again. This is on the part of bill. Democrats and republicans at the say nothing of libertarians or others even greens. Nowadays there is no acceptance that that tied camp rise forever whereas the water gonna come from more. Generally were where the resources going to come from. so a lot of the supporters of this incoming administration of course are thrilled to get rid of the trump administration and its many atrocities vis-a-vis the environment but still you're dealing with intra political interests. Here that are very much wedded to this model. Neoliberal as you call it model of ad infinitum right and it can't happen in a finite world without major hell to pay so over the line. I've always taken the long range view of this. I wasn't as freaked out when the trump administration came in. Because i'd lived through eight years of the reagan administration back in the early about throughout the eighties pretty much most of it and Trump in my view worse than reagan for the environment and sustainability. But you know the earth and even wilderness areas in this country survived eight years of reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. But we still didn't get off the unsustainable track that we are on Both in terms of this ideological addiction to growth..
Rewilding Earth
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"I as a river ranger and later as wilderness coordinator. He also worked as a river guide for a decade as utah wilderness coordinator for the sierra club for two years beginning in two thousand kim assume various roles with grand canyon wildland council including a stint as the northern representative for the wilderness coalition before working on rivers and wilderness activism. He spent four years with the navy. Seals team won completing two combat deployments in vietnam. You were here as a routing leadership council member. I believe the first time we talked. And now you've picked up a couple of new titles board member and well. It's uncalled cold. A lot of things but wildland coordinators. Probably the one. I prefer so you've taken on in short a more active role Big time with rewarding and A lot of different projects that you've been working on right away just hit the ground running your massive resource to re wilding and the conservation community and think. That's why everybody was really excited to see you. Step into the new roles among your martini. Making skills competition with four on that one right right. The thing about rebuilding institute is it's for for me. It's an ideal environment because it r- open to ideas new ideas. Thanks but it's also people have conversations about those things out not been involved sierra club which is jianghuai coal. You throw ideas into not just to me. It's just been real positive positive. Change for everyone. I've taken a little census in and everyone is eagerly happy that you're here doing this and one of the things that you're working on We are part of A coalition a for by thirty. Wanna talk about that first off as we go through the things that you're involved with at least with rewinding north america in our campaign ahead the whole thirty by thirty idea stems strung the hafer concepts that actually read. Knox unfortunately reportedly wilson picked up on that kind of a national international effort. But you know we've been involved in that for a long time. We really think about it. Needs thirty percent of the earth's protected.
Rewilding Earth
"earth" Discussed on Rewilding Earth
"So you sit there and you realize like all of these discussions about overpopulation are historically pretty racist in jingo gewiss stick and eugenicist in their origin because nobody <hes>. You know maybe this is touchy for your listeners. But you know nobody ever takes a picture of like a pga tournament with a whole bunch of white people crowded together and say on god. There's too many people on the planet but they sure do zoom in on a big big crowd of black or brown people in some city and say oh my god there's too many people on the planet right and so that's just the nature the origin of of this debate. Even if people were right in their assessment that there's too many people on the planet earth can't support that many people the framing of it was wrong and then because of this kind of paternalistic eugenicist <hes>. racist you know <hes>. origins of the concern the pathway. to resolving it was always paternalistic kind of the population policy approach. Not realizing i think in the fifties the nineteen fifties through the nineteen seventies the power of empowering strategies <hes> and again if we just <hes>. Empower educate integrate into the workforce <hes>. And provide access to family planning technology for all women on the planet this would resolve itself. And that's really the crux of the book. And what's funny. I think is when i give my you know my big lectures my big talks with all my maps and my powerpoint. You can feel the tension in the room until i get get to the fact that it can be resolved or women's empowerment and then you just get like a round of applause and cheering and nobody knew it's not in the in the you know the popular mind and i think that's the biggest problem we've had. Who are people really having those discussions. Still about overpopulation. They are. But i believe it's a generational thing and i actually don't try to impede malice to you. Know a lot of older generations the language you learn when you're young you use it even if it doesn't necessarily fit your do your new view of the world <hes>. You know we all fall back on old habits and old language <hes>. But also you know. I gave some talks at the royal society and the royal geographical society. And you know some of their some of their older patrons would come. And i appreciate them showing up but i get questions from old british you know folks in their seventies and eighties and they say you know but don't we need population policy to keep those people from you know breeding animals. And you're like dude. I don't think he meant to phrase it that way. But in some cases they do and that's part of the problem right because there is a history of that. And if i were someone you know from another part of the world you know where the total fertility rate is is higher and i hear somebody come in and start talking about population and their white from the us or the uk or or europe. I i'm sure i would. Squint my eyes and listen very carefully about the words coming out of their mouth because it is part of the history of this whole thing and you know it's just yell at people say chris don't write this book. Don't go with that message. You're gonna end up being one of those people. And i'm happy to say but i'm not one of those people read the damn up <hes>. And it really does come down to. We have exceeded our planet's longterm ecological carrying capacity every additional person we add to the planet incurs further ecological debt that will take generations to pay down but we can't even pay down until he bring the population down right to our long-term meek. Lots kathy and i'm more than happy to debate is three billion four five. I've i've dared anybody to try to tell me it's seven point seven or higher and nobody's even tried like even the people that you know want to try. They don't even try because they know they can't defend it. And so you know give or take a billion we've got a long road ahead on this issue but