00:00China and Nepal built the early warning system together.
00:03It has worked 7 times before.
00:05On the 26th of August, it did nothing.
00:08659 dead.
00:102,400 still missing.
00:12Before you answer, look at what the mountain did.
00:14Ice and rock broke off at 5,000 meters.
00:17It traveled 20 kilometers and fell 3,300 meters in 7 minutes.
00:21That is the entire window.
00:23Any alarm could ever have given you.
00:247 minutes to run.
00:26And we are calling that safety.
00:27But notice what you actually wanted from that alarm.
00:29You wanted to be told.
00:30You wanted the 7 minutes.
00:32You did not want to be asked anything.
00:33Because an alarm is very convenient, is it not?
00:36It makes the mountain the problem.
00:37It makes China the problem.
00:39It makes some missing sensor the problem.
00:41And you get to stay exactly as you are.
00:43This is what the mind does.
00:44It will accept any disaster, any number of dead.
00:47As long as the cause stays outside.
00:49Blame the neighbor.
00:50Blame the government.
00:51Blame the machine that failed.
00:53Anything but the one question.
00:54Who warmed the ice?
00:56Not a sensor.
00:57Not a treaty.
00:57You did.
00:58Your consumption did.
00:59Mind did.
00:59And the reason nobody wants to say it.
01:01Is that a sensor can be fixed with money.
01:05But you can only be fixed with attention.
01:07So we will hold conferences about sensors.
01:09The alarm did not fail you.
01:11It was never going to ask you anything.
01:13That is exactly why you wanted it.
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