Trailer: Why It Matters
Why It Matters
Council on Foreign Relations
4.2 • 876 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2019
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The world is a big place and there's a lot going on. |
| 0:09.0 | One person in our country has been given the authority to potentially end life on earth. |
| 0:13.6 | They're credited with saving 11 million lives with elite math. |
| 0:17.2 | It will become the Wild West in effect in our space. |
| 0:20.8 | Why it matters is here to help. We're curious too, and we're on a mission to figure out how the world works, how big decisions are made, and how something that feels so far away can actually hit close to home. |
| 0:32.8 | Whether the first nuclear weapon to be used in anger since August 9, 1945 happens. |
| 0:39.1 | Five years from now or 30 years from now matters. |
| 0:42.4 | A fleck of paint traveling at 17,000 miles an hour went through all but the last pain of that window. A fleck of paint? A fleck of paint. |
| 0:49.0 | A fleck of paint. Lethal autonomous weapons are going to get things wrong. There are people in China who are billionaires |
| 0:53.6 | from this recycling process. |
| 0:55.8 | Fueled by the minds at the Council on Foreign Relations |
| 0:58.9 | and hosted by me, Gabriel Sierra. |
| 1:01.9 | The podcast weaves together conversations |
| 1:04.2 | with leaders and thinkers who are facing these problems |
| 1:07.2 | head on. |
| 1:08.5 | What did you feel the first time you went to space |
| 1:10.8 | and looked back on Earth? |
| 1:11.9 | It's an overused word and that's odd. You saw the ocean and I always say it's one ocean. No borders, no boundaries. You get the understanding about humanity. |
| 1:22.1 | Predict. Predict. |
| 1:23.2 | So what do we lose out on when women don't participate in STEM fields? |
| 1:28.2 | Well, the genius of half of the population. |
| 1:30.5 | Gabriel, I tell you, great question. |
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