Excerpt from Jane Goodall Interview to Be Released Only Post-Mortem
INTERVIEWER: Do you have people that you don’t like?
JANE GOODALL: Absolutely, there are people I don’t like. And I would like to put them on one of Musk’s spaceships and send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover.
INTERVIEWER: Would he be one of them?
JANE GOODALL: Oh, absolutely, he’d be the host. And you can imagine who I’d put on that spaceship.
INTERVIEWER: Who?
JANE GOODALL: Along with Musk would be Trump and some of Trump’s real supporters. And then I would put Putin in there and I would put President Xi. I’d certainly put Netanyahu in there and his far-right government. Put them all on that spaceship and send them off.
In the place where I am now, I look back over my life. I look back at the world I’ve left behind. What message do I want to leave?
I want to make sure that you all understand that each and every one of you has a role to play. You may not know it, you may not find it, but your life matters and you are here for a reason. And I just hope that that reason will become apparent as you live through your life.
I want you to know that whether or not you find that role that you’re supposed to play, your life does matter. And that every single day you live, you make a difference in the world. And you get to choose the difference that you make.
I want you to understand that we are part of the natural world.
And even today, where the planet is dark, there still is hope. Don’t lose hope. If you lose hope, you become apathetic and do nothing. Above all, I want you to think about the fact that we are part, when we’re on planet Earth, we are part of Mother Nature.
We depend on Mother Nature for clean air, for water, for food, for clothing, for everything. And as we destroy one ecosystem after another, as we create worse climate change, worse loss of diversity, we have to do everything in our power to make the world a better place for the children alive today and for those that will follow.
You have it in your power to make a difference. Don’t give up. There is a future for you. Do your best while you’re still on this beautiful planet Earth, that I look down upon from where I am now.