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People are like, “This is the worst example of white people shit I’ve ever seen.
“People are like, “This is the worst example of white people shit I’ve ever seen.”
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- Paul Rosolie
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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01 / evaluation
“People are like, “This is the worst example of white people shit I’ve ever seen.”
02 / evaluation
“What we do is we take loggers and gold miners and make them into rangers and give them better jobs, and we try to protect the forest.”
03 / evaluation
“It’s one of the last places that’s untouched. This changed everything because we realized that along with the butterflies and the monkeys and the jaguars and the trees and the ecosystem, there’s also a human culture that will, in the next few years, cease to exist, that will be exterminated if we don’t protect them.”
04 / evaluation
“The rivers are filled with trash and, yeah, extinction is happening, but we have to be an interplanetary species anyway, because at any moment this could all end from an asteroid and everything’s going to shit anyway, and so it’s like we’re fucking up this planet.”
05 / evaluation
“I love that. And so the rainforests to me are the greatest celebration of life and probably the greatest challenge for us as a global society because if we can’t protect the crown jewel, the best thing, the most beautiful part, then we’re really, really missing the point.”
06 / evaluation
“Now, just think about this, I think scientifically, because people like to summarize, people like to get really, really cavalier with our scientific progress, and they go, “We’ve already explored the Amazon.”
07 / evaluation
“To be able to observe it over time, to learn its habits or to put a radio transmitter on it or to take any sort of valuable information from the experience is almost impossible. And so a lot of the stuff that I wrote about in Mother of God, us jumping on anacondas and trying to catch them, and at first it just seemed like something we were doing to just try and see them.”