Saoirse
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And it is important that people, you know, are aware of that at the same time and that the media is reporting it in a way that
I should also say, you know, I have been working on climate change for almost a decade and I have been, I have attended, I think, seven UN conferences specifically working on negotiating climate policy.
So I do know what climate change is.
Can I say something in there as well, just quickly?
Yeah, no, just to say, I mean, like, I have been working on this issue since I was 15, and we are kicking and screaming every day to get people to think about climate change.
And, you know, if there's anything going on in the day that's going to make them think about it, or maybe just, you know, latch on to the point a little bit more, then we always take advantage of that.
And I totally take your point that, you know, people can always dismiss that a specific day is, oh, well, you know, but it's just a sunny day.
Like, we are not at a point where we can pick and choose the moments in which we get people to listen to us.
If they're going to listen, then we're going to speak, because people are not listening on the whole.
Because I have a feeling that it's me.
Yeah, no, I mean, listen, I've tried not to speak with any kind of intensity here in this conversation, because I am fully aware that people, you know, need to enjoy the sun.
And honestly, you know, it is so important to be able to get the light and feel not so depressed.
But I cannot go, you know, to our siblings in the global south who are experiencing extreme heat waves to the point of,
you know, people dying, people whose, you know, entire islands are being submerged in water, who are going to have to move their entire homes and cultures that their people have lived in for hundreds of years and tell them, well, you know, they shouldn't be so serious about it because it's going to rain on the Bloom Festival.
I have acknowledged that endlessly in this program.