Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbong. When I was about 10 or so, I was in Indonesia,

and my uncle took me to go pick up some meat for a big family gathering. It turns out the place was a bit of a

DIY operation. The pigs were in a yard out back, and you had to catch one yourself, tie it up,

and slaughter it.

It's an interesting feeling killing an animal.

It's a mixture of sadness, disgust, gratitude, and a sense that it had to be done.

And so I completely understand when the main character in today's book decides that killing

animals is not a thing he wants to do. Unfortunately,

he's signed up for a job to do just that. The book is titled Eradication by novelist Jonathan

Miles. And in this interview, he talks to NPR Scott Simon about the euphemisms we use when we

talk about killing animals and how people can talk themselves into doing a job they hate.

That's ahead.

Greenland has said it is not for sale.

Denmark has said it can't even legally sell Greenland.

And whether Trump can or will or should try to control or purchase a territory that does not want to be sold is one question.

But on Planet

Money, we are more interested in how we even got to this moment and how we might

gracefully get out of it. Listen to Planet Money on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Adi is a man who suffered a great loss, the death of his young son, and then the breakup of his marriage.

And so he finds appeal in a short-term job that calls for someone who is interested in saving the world.

A foundation hires him to go to the remote island of Santa Flora, where native plants and birds are endangered by a multiplying

population of goats left by 19th century whalers. And here's what the interviewer tells him.

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