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08","startTime":702.4,"endTime":706.4,"body":"country, and we make pharmaceuticals,"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":706.4,"endTime":711.2,"body":"auto parts, food, and all of that"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":706.4,"endTime":711.2,"body":"waste goes into our waterways,"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":711.2,"endTime":713.6,"body":"into our rivers, into our aquifers."},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":713.6,"endTime":720.4,"body":"So, how could I hear that our role on"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":713.6,"endTime":720.4,"body":"this planet was to take care of the"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":720.4,"endTime":726.0,"body":"Earth and what I was seeing is these"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":720.4,"endTime":726.0,"body":"massive amounts of waste, of pollution,"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":726.0,"endTime":730.8,"body":"destruction, disrespect, and also"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":726.0,"endTime":730.8,"body":"all of that mixed in with a climate"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":730.8,"endTime":736.0,"body":"crisis which happened when my hometown"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":730.8,"endTime":736.0,"body":"flooded when I was 13 years old?"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":736.0,"endTime":742.0,"body":"So, for me, my own town gave me"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":736.0,"endTime":742.0,"body":"everything, all the tools that I needed,"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":742.0,"endTime":748.0,"body":"to not only have the tools to see the"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":742.0,"endTime":748.0,"body":"world in an interconnected way, but"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":748.0,"endTime":753.2,"body":"also show me what disconnect looks"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 08","startTime":748.0,"endTime":753.2,"body":"like, and that's why I'm an activist."},{"speaker":"David 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and"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 12","startTime":850.4,"endTime":856.0,"body":"future generations can experience joy."},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 12","startTime":856.0,"endTime":858.8,"body":"I am seeing that there's this injustice."},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 12","startTime":858.8,"endTime":861.6,"body":"I am seeing that there's a disconnect."},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 12","startTime":861.6,"endTime":864.8,"body":"I know that these things"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 12","startTime":861.6,"endTime":864.8,"body":"can be preventable."},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 12","startTime":864.8,"endTime":866.0,"body":"[music fades out]"},{"speaker":"David 13","startTime":866.0,"endTime":866.8,"body":"27"},{"speaker":"David 13","startTime":866.8,"endTime":870.0,"body":"Xiye, what does climate"},{"speaker":"David 13","startTime":866.8,"endTime":870.0,"body":"justice mean for you?"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 13","startTime":870.0,"endTime":871.2,"body":"29"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 13","startTime":871.2,"endTime":875.2,"body":"For me, climate justice means"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 13","startTime":871.2,"endTime":875.2,"body":"recognizing the way in which"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 13","startTime":875.2,"endTime":879.2,"body":"communities have been disenfranchised"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 13","startTime":875.2,"endTime":879.2,"body":"from access to nature, resources, and"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 13","startTime":879.2,"endTime":880.8,"body":"kind of autonomous decision-making."},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 13","startTime":880.8,"endTime":884.0,"body":"Communities have just been"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 13","startTime":880.8,"endTime":884.0,"body":"sidelined and it's systemic."},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 13","startTime":884.0,"endTime":888.4,"body":"I think that's the essence of climate"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 13","startTime":884.0,"endTime":888.4,"body":"injustice – that most communities"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 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future."},{"speaker":"David 14","startTime":937.2,"endTime":938.0,"body":"32"},{"speaker":"David 14","startTime":938.0,"endTime":943.6,"body":"It's brave of you to say to world"},{"speaker":"David 14","startTime":938.0,"endTime":943.6,"body":"leaders that they're the ones who"},{"speaker":"David 14","startTime":943.6,"endTime":946.8,"body":"are naive, but you have to be right."},{"speaker":"David 14","startTime":946.8,"endTime":952.8,"body":"There's a certain naivety in assuming"},{"speaker":"David 14","startTime":946.8,"endTime":952.8,"body":"that we can keep going the way we have"},{"speaker":"David 14","startTime":952.8,"endTime":957.2,"body":"when our actions are destroying local"},{"speaker":"David 14","startTime":952.8,"endTime":957.2,"body":"environmental systems, as you highlighted."},{"speaker":"David 14","startTime":957.2,"endTime":960.0,"body":"You can't drink dirty water, for example."},{"speaker":"David 14","startTime":960.0,"endTime":963.2,"body":"What was the reaction 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not"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1134.8,"endTime":1139.2,"body":"considering that people suffer from"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1134.8,"endTime":1139.2,"body":"war, that people suffer from oil"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1139.2,"endTime":1143.2,"body":"extraction, from oil spills, then"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1139.2,"endTime":1143.2,"body":"our decisions aren't actually going"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1143.2,"endTime":1145.6,"body":"to reflect what's best for humanity."},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1145.6,"endTime":1150.8,"body":"And that is why it's so essential"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1145.6,"endTime":1150.8,"body":"to have women in these spaces"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1150.8,"endTime":1156.0,"body":"because we are going to bring in a"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1150.8,"endTime":1156.0,"body":"different theory of collective action."},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1156.0,"endTime":1160.4,"body":"And, obviously, that trickles down"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1156.0,"endTime":1160.4,"body":"to the individual; the way that"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1160.4,"endTime":1164.8,"body":"male colleague is welcomed into an"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1160.4,"endTime":1164.8,"body":"interview is very different than"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1164.8,"endTime":1167.6,"body":"the way that I am welcomed in."},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1167.6,"endTime":1172.4,"body":"In the youth climate space, it's"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1167.6,"endTime":1172.4,"body":"mostly run by young women and"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1172.4,"endTime":1174.8,"body":"young women of colour, as well."},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 15","startTime":1174.8,"endTime":1180.0,"body":"Almost every single city's climate 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demand and that ask."},{"speaker":"David 23","startTime":1588.4,"endTime":1589.2,"body":"50"},{"speaker":"David 23","startTime":1589.2,"endTime":1592.4,"body":"You've co-founded an organization"},{"speaker":"David 23","startTime":1589.2,"endTime":1592.4,"body":"called the Re-Earth Initiative."},{"speaker":"David 23","startTime":1592.4,"endTime":1598.4,"body":"Can you speak a bit about that and what"},{"speaker":"David 23","startTime":1592.4,"endTime":1598.4,"body":"you'd like to achieve with Re-Earth?"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 23","startTime":1598.4,"endTime":1599.6,"body":"59"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 23","startTime":1599.6,"endTime":1604.0,"body":"[driving music] Our mission at Re-Earth"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 23","startTime":1599.6,"endTime":1604.0,"body":"Initiative is to distribute resources"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 23","startTime":1604.0,"endTime":1608.4,"body":"to frontline communities across the"},{"speaker":"Xiye Bastida 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are,"},{"speaker":"David 30","startTime":2053.6,"endTime":2056.0,"body":"what you do, and your background?"},{"speaker":"Silvia Marcon 31","startTime":2056.0,"endTime":2057.2,"body":"03"},{"speaker":"Silvia Marcon 31","startTime":2057.2,"endTime":2058.0,"body":"For sure."},{"speaker":"Silvia Marcon 31","startTime":2058.0,"endTime":2059.2,"body":"I'm Silvia Marcon."},{"speaker":"Silvia Marcon 31","startTime":2059.2,"endTime":2064.4,"body":"I've been working for C40 in different"},{"speaker":"Silvia Marcon 31","startTime":2059.2,"endTime":2064.4,"body":"roles for the past seven years,"},{"speaker":"Silvia Marcon 31","startTime":2064.4,"endTime":2068.4,"body":"and I'm currently working with"},{"speaker":"Silvia Marcon 31","startTime":2064.4,"endTime":2068.4,"body":"the Inclusive Climate Action Team."},{"speaker":"Silvia Marcon 31","startTime":2068.4,"endTime":2074.0,"body":"I am Italian and, as many Italians,"},{"speaker":"Silvia Marcon 31","startTime":2068.4,"endTime":2074.0,"body":"I 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