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Why It Matters

Season Two Trailer

Why It Matters

Council on Foreign Relations

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4.2876 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Now more than ever, it’s clear that global problems can become local in a flash. In season two, Why It Matters dives into a new set of challenges that will shape our lives in the years to come.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The world is a big place and now more than ever it's clear that global problems can become local in a flash.

0:11.0

In our last season we covered 11 issues that could change our lives, like the possibility

0:17.0

of robots going to war.

0:19.0

Even if machines could make all the right decisions.

0:22.7

Machines aren't going to feel the moral impact of those decisions.

0:26.6

And the risks of trying to cool our planet

0:28.8

by dimming the sky.

0:30.2

I think whatever decision we make, we have to do it with future generations in mind.

0:35.0

And how a pandemic can expose the cracks in our interconnected world.

0:40.0

A weakness anywhere is a weakness everywhere.

0:43.0

We can't protect ourselves from diseases by pulling up the drawbridge around the United States.

0:50.0

Now in our second season, we're diving into new issues that may be flying under the

0:55.8

radar but won't be for long. I think it's worth realizing that the fashion

1:01.1

industry is hugely polluting and we are directly responsible

1:05.2

for this impact.

1:06.2

Is the problem that they're reading this on the internet or is the problem that it's

1:10.1

being confirmed by the media?

1:11.2

What do you see as the responsibility of a private company

1:14.8

that has so much influence in another country?

1:17.6

So this is a really interesting question.

1:19.1

If WhatsApp added traceability, India would not be the only country to ask. Other countries would ask.

1:25.6

Fundamentally, what I think she Jinping is attempting to do is simply to make the world

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