Lily James Olds

No, that makes a lot of sense.

You're following through on your commitment and sharing the information that you're gathering there.

What have you learned from the indigenous communities that you work with in the Amazon?

What are some of the things that they've taught you that you carry with you?

You know, you were talking a minute ago about how you're making change both on a local and global level.

I had no idea before I met you that artisanal gold mining is not a small scale operation, right?

The word artisanal makes you think it's some

small, organic thing, and that it is not.

And that in fact, it's responsible, as you say, for nearly 20% of the world's gold.

Is there a way to mine gold without using mercury?

And if so, what does that look like?

And why don't more operations use this method?

So you can't do that on a small scale.

The mercury is really the only option if you're a smaller miner or company to do it.

I mean, do you think that a solution would be to provide more training to these minors in alternative methods?

That's really interesting.

I was going to ask, what are some examples that you've seen of changes in behavior based on the conversations you've had and the work that you've done?

Do you have other examples?

And what role do you think governments, consumers, just period, consumers, what role do you think all of us have in this?

I'm just curious, you know, as you said, it's slow work, it's long-term work.