What Do We Owe Wild Animals? with Emma Marris

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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What are our moral obligations to nature, and the wild animals that live in it? Should we vaccinate them? Should we feed them when they're starving? Should we kill so called "invasive" species? Emma Marris is back this week to discuss her new book Wild Souls and the complex ethical dilemmas surrounding our relationship with wild animals. You can check out her book at factuallypod.com/books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgun Podcast.
0:04.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.0	I don't know the way.
0:11.0	I don't know what to think.
0:14.0	I don't know what to say.
0:17.0	Yeah, that got to go.
0:19.0	Yeah, that's okay.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello, everyone.
0:29.0	Welcome to Factually.
0:30.0	I'm Adam Connover.
0:31.0	So wonderful to have you listening to the show once again to an incredible interview with
0:35.8	an incredible expert who knows some incredible things that you probably don't know.
0:41.0	Let's get into it.
0:42.0	You know, part of our fascination with the natural world with nature is that it operates
0:47.7	according to different laws than we have in our human civilization.
0:52.1	In fact, the laws of nature often run counter to the laws of human society.
0:57.4	For instance, in our society, we don't really love it when someone gets murdered.
1:01.9	We think that that's bad.
1:03.6	And we think that we should prevent such a thing happening at all costs.
1:07.8	But when a creature in nature murders another creature and eats it, well, we don't send
1:12.3	the nature cops out there to bust them and send them to forest jail.
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