298. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
The Michael Shermer Show
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I Don't Pass Judgment on Those.
The average life expectancy of a mouse in the wild is between nine and 18 months, whereas in the comfort of your basement, they could live up to six years. So here you are, wanting to save the lives of a rodents, yet you are dooming them to an early death. And so but i'll also call to your attention living in a house from the wood of 50 trees which didn't possibly lived a hundred years because they were cut down by two or four members each. The tree produces about 15 times the mass that mice produce every day; it's 15 times more oxygen,. Every time we kill one animal for something like this our society suffers as a result. We're not
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