Betül Kaçar
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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So these attempts don't need not to come from, need not to come from a place of fear, but it can be ultimately, can come from a piece of hope and love.
Yes.
And I work with a lot of, maybe because I'm at the university, I get to teach young people every day.
Even at the time of four year or three, few years, you see...
generational difference already unfolding in front of you.
And maybe that's why I see hope.
Because I think what we...
get to interact within classrooms.
Every year, it's just getting better.
They are aware of issues in a way that I sure wasn't at their age.
In some levels I was, but in many levels I didn't think about.
I wasn't concerned of the problems.
Well, they maybe have to be concerned because it's hitting the reality, it's hitting them hard, but
Younger people are not afraid of these things.
An 18-year-old can face these brutal facts about the planet in ways that I don't think any other generation before them did.
Yes, and I think space exploration...
Even contemplating about these possibilities ultimately, and I will emphasize this again, should make us think about our own place in the universe.
If we are alone, that is quite fascinating.
And we definitely have a responsibility to guard what we got better and protect it better and don't take it for granted.
If we are not the only one, that's also a lot of responsibility to understand ourselves.