Name: TED】マーガレット・ヘファーナン。故意の盲目」の危険性 (【TED】Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of "willful blindness")
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:39:52.000Z
Duration: 14 min 40 s
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In the northwest corner of the United States,

there's a little town called Libby, Montana,

and it's surrounded by pine trees and lakes

and these enormous trees that scream up into the sky.

And in there is a little town called Libby,

which I visited, which feels kind of lonely,

And in Libby, Montana, there's a rather unusual woman

She always felt a little bit of an outsider,

although she's been there almost all her life,

Later in life, she got a job going house to house

reading utility meters -- gas meters, electricity meters.

And she was doing the work in the middle of the day,

and one thing particularly caught her notice, which was,

in the middle of the day she met a lot of men

who were at home, middle aged, late middle aged,

and a lot of them seemed to be on oxygen tanks.

Then, a few years later, her father died at the age of 59,

five days before he was due to receive his pension.

She thought he must just have been worn out by the work.

But then a few years later, her mother died,

because her mother came from a long line of people

In fact, Gayla's uncle is still alive to this day,

It was an anomaly, and she kept puzzling over anomalies.

when her mother had broken a leg and went into the hospital,

and two of them were leg x-rays, which made sense,

but six of them were chest x-rays, which didn't.

trying to understand what she was seeing.

Vermiculite was used for soil conditioners,

to keep houses warm during the long Montana winters.

What she didn't learn until she started working this problem

is vermiculite is a very toxic form of asbestos.

what had happened, what had been done to her parents

and to the people that she saw on oxygen tanks

She thought, when everybody knows, they'll want to do something,

as she kept insisting on telling this story

to her neighbors, to her friends, to other people in the community,

that eventually a bunch of them got together

which they proudly displayed on their cars, which said,

But Gayla didn't stop. She kept doing research.

The advent of the Internet definitely helped her.

She argued and argued, and finally she struck lucky

studying the history of mines in the area,

and she told him her story, and at first, of course,

but he went back to Seattle and he did his own research

Nevertheless, people still didn't want to know.

They said things like, "Well, if it were really dangerous,

"If that's really why everyone was dying,

Some of the guys used to very heavy jobs said,

I can't possibly be a victim, and anyway,

But still Gayla went on, and finally she succeeded

in getting a federal agency to come to town

and to screen the inhabitants of the town --

15,000 people -- and what they discovered