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00:00I'm going to read you something that may be a little too long, but I don't know why it makes me cry, but can you hear me?
00:19Maybe I need glasses, or maybe not.
00:22To be hopeful in difficulties is not only romantic, it is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
00:35What we choose to emphasize will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, our ability to do something is destroyed.
00:45If we remember the times and places, and there are many, in which people have behaved in a splendid way, this will provide us with the energy and at least the possibility of sending this drop of the world in a different direction.
01:01And if we do that, even if it's small, we don't have to wait for a great utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and living now, as we think human beings should live, facing everything that is bad, is already a wonderful victory.
01:19I think what's becoming more of a problem is that we have an incredible amount of cobalt coming from the exploitation of labor, and people who don't want to deal with slave labor.
01:30And people don't want to hear about slaves. These mines supply what we need for cell phones and cars. So how do you clean up that problem?
01:43How do you try to solve this problem? Do you try to get rid of cell phones? Or do you change the management of these situations, paying people with a decent salary, not employing children, or avoiding all the things that you don't see when you buy a cell phone?
02:02You know, the environment is everything, isn't it? If you lose water and air, and disasters happen all the time, perhaps this is a topic that should be constantly explored to educate the population on why it's happening, or at least to recognize that it's happening.
02:19When this planet goes into ruin, when we lose air and water, and we have extreme temperatures, the Earth will continue to exist, but we will no longer exist. We think we're in first place, but in reality we're almost at the bottom. The ground is, for the planet, more important than us.
02:39The only positive thing about being old is that you think, oh, well, maybe I won't have to be there when everything falls apart. But at the same time, I mean, I think it's important to talk to your children about what's happening, and give them the sense of their responsibility to the world, and the fact that no one's going to save them.
03:04No one's going to take the reins, no one's going to come in to change things. That's really clear.
03:15And the kids are the ones who feed the movement, because they know they're being fooled.
03:45Maybe we need to focus on the meaning of a good life. It's not about buying things. It's not about everything that has to do with greed.
04:13It's not about everything that has to do with vanity, and that we think makes us happy. But in the end, it doesn't make us happy, because it can't.
04:21You know, the majority of these things happen because we don't respect the way nature takes care of itself.
04:28Change will not come from the top down. It will come only from the bottom up, and from the new generations.