School with a master of arts and science journalism and has been supported by the canada for the arts and the sloan foundation. Her work has appeared in scientific canadian geographic, the globe and mail and the among others joining karen in conversation. Sabrina imbler. Sabrina imbler is the author of the essay collection how far the light reaches and the chapbook take geology, which was chosen the National Book awards, science and literature program. They are a staff writer at two factor media, an employee sports and culture site where they write about creatures and the Natural World. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming karen and to the stage. Hi, ari. Hi everyone. Thank you so much for coming tonight. Its a real joy and honor to be here in conversation with karen about this beautiful book, kings of their own ocean. Its a its a sprawling book. And i have lots of questions prepared. But i guess i just first wanted to ask, you know, there is this early in the book where
School with a master of arts and science journalism and has been supported by the canada for the arts and the sloan foundation. Her work has appeared in scientific canadian geographic, the globe and mail and the among others joining karen in conversation. Sabrina imbler. Sabrina imbler is the author of the essay collection how far the light reaches and the chapbook take geology, which was chosen the National Book awards, science and literature program. They are a staff writer at two factor media, an employee sports and culture site where they write about creatures and the Natural World. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming karen and to the stage. Hi, ari. Hi everyone. Thank you so much for coming tonight. Its a real joy and honor to be here in conversation with karen about this beautiful book, kings of their own ocean. Its a its a sprawling book. And i have lots of questions prepared. But i guess i just first wanted to ask, you know, there is this early in the book where
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Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. And certainly that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. But my experience over the last 20 years or so in washington politics researching and writing, more often than not the opposite is true. You have a lot of corporations, other lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government, and you have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The
Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith gooas i call this the Jimmy Stewart washington scenario and that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces but my experience in the washington politics in the writing is so often not the opposite is true but you have a lot of corporations into a lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government and the executive branch looking for ways in which to have their needs to get the corporations involved. The hightech industry as a classic example if you look back 15, 20 years ago the