Pushkin.

Hey guys, this is Ben, out of Fafari.

The Last Archive has always been a show about the history of truth.

It's meant to help us understand our moment, when the truth seems harder and harder to find.

With Earth Day coming up in April, I wanted to share an episode by the founder of this show, the historian Jill Lepore,

about the epistemological crisis of climate change. Jill proposes an alternate reality,

one where Americans ratified an environmental rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution,

granting not only protection, but representation to the natural world, based on counting trees. That never happened,

but what would the world look like today if it had? Over here on The Last Archive, you can also

listen to other episodes of our show about the history of the environmental movement.

I'd start with Season 1, Episode 9, for the birds, which is possibly my favorite episode of this show.

It takes us back to the 1960s, Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, and scientists counting birds, not trees.

If you're into birds, and like I am,

you can also check out season four, episode three, parakeet panic,

about the time New York State freaked out over invasive monk parakeets and tried to kill them all.

But first, enjoy this episode, and be kind to the planet.

Here's the tree branch.

Imagine there's a place in our world where the known things go.

A deer haunted forest, crowded with pines and hemlocks,

a carpet of needles beneath your feet, grouse in the underbrush.

Welcome to the woods, outside of the last archive. I'm Jill Lepore.

This episode, we're celebrating an anniversary, sort of. The anniversary of a dream, an alternate

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