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Podcast: The Darrell McClain show
Episode: Jane Goodall’s Reckoning: Hope, Hypocrisy, and the Work Left to Us
Description: Send us Fan MailThe headlines arrived first, tidy and late, but the weight beneath them is harder to hold: Jane Goodall is gone, and so is a voice that made science feel like conscience. We sit with the loss and the indictment it delivers—how institutions that once ignored her now rush to borrow her moral light, how applause became a habit while forests thinned and habitats fractured. What begins as an obituary quickly widens into a reckoning with the lines she erased between “us” and “nature,” and the choice she kept pressing back into our hands.