Is This Land Really Our Land?
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Ralph spends the entire Radio Hour with Simon Winchester, author of “Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World.” Find out that it’s better when Mother Nature makes the boundaries with mountains, rivers, lakes, valleys, and oceans. When humans draw the maps: not as good.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.3 | Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:15.5 | My name is Steve Scrovan. |
| 0:17.0 | Logged my co-host, David Feldman. |
| 0:18.5 | Hello, David. |
| 0:19.5 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:20.5 | Nice to have you here. |
| 0:22.5 | And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader, low Ralph. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:26.0 | Get ready for a real feast here about land. |
| 0:30.0 | NASA is cruising a brand new rover on Mars |
| 0:33.0 | and companies like SpaceX are accepting applications |
| 0:36.0 | for commercial astronauts. |
| 0:38.0 | Humans have long fantasized about settling other planets. |
| 0:41.5 | But for a little while at least, we're stuck Earthbound. |
| 0:44.5 | So how do we balance sustainable occupation of the Earth |
| 0:48.0 | with the demands of an expanding global consumer class? |
| 0:51.5 | It's complicated, but our relationship to land |
| 0:54.0 | has always been complex. |
| 0:55.5 | And with our first guest Simon Winchester |
| 0:58.0 | will be digging into humankind's history |
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