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So the attendance dropped by
a very significant number.
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Perhaps maybe 80, 85% of people
were not able to make it there.
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Um, and that was very, very huge.
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So we didn't get the turnout that we
were expecting as much as, you know,
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as like, you know, but, but it was a
beautiful event, you know, after all,
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um, I remember my session starting
and, , a member of the team went ahead
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to, you know, get people to come.
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to the class.
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, and so we started seeing people
coming into the class and like, oh,
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you're talking about climate change?
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Um, okay, well there's not much
happening around, so maybe I might just
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stick around and, you know, listen.
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And so what happened is all the
people, most of the people that
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registered for the class initial.
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We're not able to make it down there.
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And so the bulk of people that showed
up at the class or you know, during
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the session were not people that were
entirely ready for the class, which
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made it a bit more interesting for me.
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Cause like, I'm like, okay, you guys
didn't know you were coming to, um,
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So a class about climate change, like,
uh, yeah, that's, that's a thing.
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Um, but, but it was interesting
eventually, you know, because the idea
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was not to just like teach the idea was
to have a conversation with these people.
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, and so the short way to answer the
question is that the class was engaging.
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It was interesting and.
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For a lot of people, perhaps everyone that
attended the class was eye-opening, you
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know, because they started to meet with
statistics that they've not seen before.
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Um, they started to see
illustrations that they've not,
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you know, seen as well before.
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And then what perhaps the most, the
best part of it for me was to see.
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About climate change, just developing
them within the 90 minute session.
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They were like, oh yeah,
this is actually a thing.
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Um, and, and that was, that
was a really, really great
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part of, of the session for me.
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So, yeah, it, it was great.
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It was interesting.
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It was engaging and, and I'm
grateful that, that I got to,
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you know, lead the conversation.
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. I have a question, Ji, you said at one
point that it was a 90 minute present.
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That's great.
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90.
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Yeah.
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Is that what you said?
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Wow.
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And that's a big long presentation.
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Yeah.
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90.
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And you said p you saw people transform.
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What, what was, what
was their biggest aha?
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What did you, what did you hear?
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Um, so the, there were lots of moments
where, um, I think the very first moment
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where people were like, oh, this is
interesting, was, I mean, I, I, I think
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it was the part where we started talking
about the natural sources of carbon
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and, and then I was like, okay, so now
that we've talked about the natural
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sources of carbon, what are some of the
unnatural sources of carbon that you know?
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And they started talking about
all the unnatural resources.
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it just kept going.
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The list kept growing.
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It kept growing.
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And then it wasn't so hard for for them
to say, oh, we actually have a problem
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if we have just this natural sauces.
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I mean, that's about four natural sources.
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I think there's, uh, there's
Vulcan, uh, volcanic eruption.
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There is, um, there is.
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You know, breathing, respiration
and, you know, some, two others.
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Um, and then we started looking
at all the unnatural sources,
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cars, you know, transportation
and a lot of, all that stuff.
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And they were like, oh, wow.
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If we're doing this much to
the environment, then, then
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there's actually problem.
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So, yeah, that, that was one
of the, that was one of the.
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Biggest part.
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The other one would be when,
uh, there's a page in, in the
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Almanac that has 10, 10,000 dots.
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And we also went through that illustration
about how if one more dots, if we hit one
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more dots, the entire human civilization
as we know it might actually be wiped out.
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and they were like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Gimme a break.
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When, when is that going to happen?
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I'm like, well, , it shouldn't
if, if we prevent it.
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Uh, yeah.
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Cause you're like, well, you know, it
sounded like we have just one lifeline.
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Uh, and uh, yeah.
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Christina has a question for you, Avanti.
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Okay.
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, could you take questions
during your presentation?
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Yeah, I did.
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Oh, great.
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So what was your favorite, like the
one that stood out, I'm curious.
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Hmm.
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Uh, what questions stood out?
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Uh, I think it was about beef.
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Um, yeah.
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Where a lady who is a lover of beef, um,
She wasn't enjoying the conversation until
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we started to talk about beef, and then
I saw the discomfort in her face and I
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was like, , do you have something to say?
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? Oh, . And she went and
she went, no, no, no.
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I can do every other thing, but
there's no way I'm, I'm , I'm
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going to stop eating, you know?
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Well, they're, they're about, I mean,
and, and I started to explain how methane
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is a very dangerous gas and how we
might actually be, you know, 84 times
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worse in the atmosphere than carbon.
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So she was actually struggling at
that point, like, uh, like, okay,
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I want beef, but I don't want the.
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The bad part of cows as well.
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So, and she was like, what do we do?
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I'm like, well, don't, don't
eat beef or at least eat it
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less . You can start from there.
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Yeah, I mean, she didn't
care about concrete.
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She was like, uh, I don't
care, like combustion.
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Well, you know, we can manage that.
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And then it was like, call, but
the moment we talked about cow,
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she was like, Nope, don't go there.
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don't, don't go there.
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