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Philosophy of Progress with Jason Crawford [Idea Machines #40]

Idea Machines

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Plastics - The Fourth Kingdom

In the late nineteenth century, there were people who believed that we could improve on nature by importing species into non natural habitats. Some of it was just for aesthetic purposes; someone wanted to import birds mentioned in Shakespeare's sonnet ad. This is purely just an aesthetic concern. Like, hay, what if we had all these great, you know, song birds in from, from britain, and we had them in america? And sometimes case, so, to come back to the theme of, like, naive optimism, sometimes this actually led problems.

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