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Women Around the World: Marinel Ubaldo · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to Stephan
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  Speaker 1: artald Re production of iHeart Radio and welcome to another
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  Speaker 1: episode of Women Around the World. But before we get
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  Speaker 1: to our woman in the World, Annie, I know Ciminthy
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  Speaker 1: has done a few episodes around climate change and the
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  Speaker 1: overall gendering of recycling and even advocating for climate change.
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  Speaker 1: But have you and I talked about the overall concerns
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  Speaker 1: of what is happening right now? I don't think we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about it in depth. I think we have done some,
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  Speaker 1: especially in our questions that we do at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: for those kinds of episodes. I think we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: it a little, but I don't think we've done a
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  Speaker 1: deep dive in regular emotional concerns about it. An you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go to Antarctica. I did, yes, and then yes,
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  Speaker 1: and you still do. And I saw that sent you
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  Speaker 1: a post about the North Pole and that's not today.
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  Speaker 1: But I just was like, you know, stuff different like that,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you talked about wanting to travel it responsibly. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so can you tell me, ay, why have you did
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  Speaker 1: you want to go to Antarctica and be what does
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  Speaker 1: that mean to travel responsibly. Oh yes. So when I
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  Speaker 1: was in third grade, I made a list of a
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  Speaker 1: hundred things that I want to do before I die,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the things on there was visit all
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  Speaker 1: seven continents. And I'm a very adventurous soul. I love traveling,
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  Speaker 1: I love hiking. I love snow, although I think I
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  Speaker 1: like it more in small doses than large doses. So
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  Speaker 1: I really wanted to go. And I even if there's
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  Speaker 1: two times to know three times it's fallen through, because
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  Speaker 1: I like figure out. I got a kind of a
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  Speaker 1: research grant situation. One time to go. Is it mcderna, mcdonna,
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  Speaker 1: it's not mcdonna, but anyway, that very research station down there. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. But I really wanted to go, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to be like kind of the Jeff Bezos.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to go to space and I don't
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  Speaker 1: care the consequences. I want to do a type thing
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  Speaker 1: because the Anartica is one of the big places we
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  Speaker 1: can see the effects of climate change. So it just
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  Speaker 1: felt incredibly like selfish of me to just go because
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  Speaker 1: I want to see it when it would kind of
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  Speaker 1: impact the environment and the health of that environment. Having
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  Speaker 1: me there, So it was really important to me that
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  Speaker 1: if I did go, I would do it in a
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  Speaker 1: way that it was responsible. So I wasn't just being
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  Speaker 1: kind of a selfish tourist who was trouncing about and
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  Speaker 1: ruining the thing that she was excited to see, right,
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  Speaker 1: which which you and I have talked about, because I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't do the money a minute, because I'm hitting the
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  Speaker 1: point in my life as I'm hitting the middle part,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I knew it was coming. I felt like
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  Speaker 1: I went through a quarter life crisis, the you know,
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  Speaker 1: ridiculousness of it all. So I thought, maybe I will
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  Speaker 1: bass the midlife bit. But I don't think I have
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  Speaker 1: because I've been really like, I'm gonna buy something, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I'm gonna do it, impulse by something and
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  Speaker 1: maybe a trip to a resort or something. And then
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  Speaker 1: that included the conversation like, but we have to do
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  Speaker 1: this responsibly because we know many resorts and many tourist
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  Speaker 1: traps like that often capitalized without considering the people around them,
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  Speaker 1: or the environment and the ecosystem that they are often disrupting,
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  Speaker 1: destroying whatever what not, and thinking about how to do
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  Speaker 1: that responsibly because I want to be super lazy but
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  Speaker 1: super conscientious. I will both those things. But also, as
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  Speaker 1: I've been thinking about it, honestly, I don't know a
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  Speaker 1: lot about the climate crisis, and this is my bad.
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  Speaker 1: I am holding myself accountable. People are probably gonna yell
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  Speaker 1: at me, and you have every right to. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I came into a uh no excuses, just my
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  Speaker 1: environmental being. You know, my parents are very conservative, came
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  Speaker 1: through a very religious background, small town in the mountains,
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  Speaker 1: all of those things where that wasn't a big concern,
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  Speaker 1: and that wasn't a big conversation. Um, we talked about access.
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  Speaker 1: In my home, we did not have access to recycling.
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  Speaker 1: I think even to this point, they do not have
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  Speaker 1: access to recycling. Even in Atlanta where we are, apparently
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  Speaker 1: we can't recycle glass. And I'm very confused by this
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  Speaker 1: whole situation of whether or not it's actually effective and
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  Speaker 1: what it is as much as it's like, uh, performative,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's by the city or by us, yeah, as
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  Speaker 1: as as the individuals. So I really feel like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing the bare minimum, but the bare minimum is
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  Speaker 1: also destroying things because we're not doing it appropriately. And
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  Speaker 1: there's this level of like, yes, once again, I'm lazy
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  Speaker 1: and I want to be conscientious, but how do I
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  Speaker 1: do this being lazy? Don't hell at me. I know
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  Speaker 1: that means don't be lazy. I get it, I get it,
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  Speaker 1: but I have come to that point of like trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out what this means, how do I learn
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  Speaker 1: about it and why is it that it does seem
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  Speaker 1: like the older generation, like myself and older I know,
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of peers on here, So don't
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  Speaker 1: yell at me. I know a lot of my peers
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  Speaker 1: are really good about it. I'm talking about myself and
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  Speaker 1: more of my parents age about not really. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's the point of the claimate change deniers, like they're
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  Speaker 1: talking with it's not that bad, calm down. So like
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  Speaker 1: there's this whole level of being in between of like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I care, yes I'm not doing enough, But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, it's even though this is a very wealthy
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  Speaker 1: area that we are in, it still doesn't have accessibility.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's because we're not demanding it enough all of that,
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  Speaker 1: but one of the things that I am seeing is
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  Speaker 1: that the fact that the younger generation are the ones
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  Speaker 1: that are really killing it in this and doing so
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  Speaker 1: massive amounts of work that I cannot believe is even needed,
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  Speaker 1: and it makes me sad. I'm so sorry, young generation,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you all at the same time. And one
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  Speaker 1: of those younger generations who are making a change in
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  Speaker 1: difference is today's women around the world. Mary Nell Ubaldo, who,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, it's also a social worker. Apparently she
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  Speaker 1: was working with children and women and advocating for their names.
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  Speaker 1: So hey, friend, I call them friend. Yeah. Yaldo is
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  Speaker 1: a twenty four year old Philippines native who has been
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  Speaker 1: at the forefront of bringing awareness of this massive impact
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  Speaker 1: of climate change, especially to her community and her country.
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  Speaker 1: Born in a beautiful fishing town in the Philippines, Baldo
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  Speaker 1: and our family were hit hard by the twenty thirteen
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  Speaker 1: super typhoon. I remember this. Do you remember that a
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  Speaker 1: huge typhoon that happened there in the mass destruction? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: And I remember so many people being missing. I also remember,
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  Speaker 1: because as a social worker is a adoptee, there's this
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  Speaker 1: conversation of trafficking happening because of these types of huge disasters,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, young children being essentially orphaned during this time.
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  Speaker 1: But weird that I remember that part. But yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: displaced and destroyed her entire village and many communities around her.
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  Speaker 1: Uh And though they have dealt with storms and natural
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  Speaker 1: disasters before, it's one of the deadliest typhoons in history
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  Speaker 1: even up till today, with over lives loss and so
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  Speaker 1: many displaced and losing their entire way of life, as
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  Speaker 1: well as the fact that many people are still missing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, um. And not only that, but the storms
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  Speaker 1: continue to destroy the ecosystem that has continued to be affected,
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  Speaker 1: and that makes the whole situation even more dangerous and dire.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, the Philippines was considered by Amnesty International
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  Speaker 1: as one of the most at risk countries for the
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  Speaker 1: climate crisis. And as if that wasn't bad enough, there
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  Speaker 1: sponsor around the world and within the Philippines government has
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  Speaker 1: seemed fairly minimal and what is needed to help an
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  Speaker 1: entire community and country, But Ubaldo wasn't having it. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: she led the first youth climate strike in the Philippines
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  Speaker 1: and has become a public figure in protesting and bringing
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  Speaker 1: awareness around the climate crisis. And she founded the Youth
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  Speaker 1: Leaders for Environmental Action Federation, which is a quote youth
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  Speaker 1: led organization based in Eastern vicias that aims to mentor
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  Speaker 1: use individuals and organizations in climate advocacy and uh, she
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  Speaker 1: has been educating used in locals about the climate crisis
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  Speaker 1: and the impact of global policies on climate change. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty phenomenal to see when she speaks on it
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  Speaker 1: and especially what she is doing uh in activism. And
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  Speaker 1: yet she's focusing a lot on the youth, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's very smart. We kind of focus on the youth,
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  Speaker 1: and she does this on a global level as well.
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  Speaker 1: She's spoken at the u n f c c c
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  Speaker 1: uh CP twenty one in Paris and the C twenty
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  Speaker 1: five in Madrid. She was a part of the Climate
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  Speaker 1: Justice Liability public hearing in New York and eighteen and
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  Speaker 1: was selected as the Philippines representative at the Hashtag Youth
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  Speaker 1: for Climate Hashtag Driving Ambition event in Milan, where she
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  Speaker 1: was able to discuss ideas and specific climate crisis proposals.
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  Speaker 1: So she's doing a lot to try to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the policies. She was appointed as the coordinator for the
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  Speaker 1: Philippines in our country at the u ND Climate Change
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  Speaker 1: Conference for Youth in Glasgow last November. And Yeah, she
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  Speaker 1: does her advocacy even under the threat of danger. According
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  Speaker 1: to a recent Global Witness dot org report in September,
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  Speaker 1: quote in twenty six until the end of hundred sixty
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  Speaker 1: six land and environment defenders have been killed, and it
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  Speaker 1: stated in one it was reported at least twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: people were killed as well. So there's a lot to
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  Speaker 1: be said that this is very, very dangerous work. They
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  Speaker 1: even talked about the fact that, yeah, Cole as a
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  Speaker 1: part of the big conversation piece, if they were to
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  Speaker 1: talk about climate crisis, a part of what is happening
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  Speaker 1: and how the government makes money would be called into
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  Speaker 1: question yep. But she has not slowed down. Instead, she
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  Speaker 1: sees that representation for her country is something that is
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  Speaker 1: much needed. In this conversation, she said, I want to
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  Speaker 1: bring the voices and stories of the youth and communities
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  Speaker 1: from the front line to the global arena and to
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  Speaker 1: show the human face of the climate crisis. People on
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  Speaker 1: the front line should be part of the decision making processes.
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  Speaker 1: Their voices should be heard, listen to and considered negotiations
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  Speaker 1: and decision making processes, especially on things that involve us.
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  Speaker 1: As for the danger she faces, she says being a
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  Speaker 1: climate activist in the Philippines. I've been scared from my
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  Speaker 1: own safety, But I also think about the things we
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  Speaker 1: have achieved so far and why we are still even here.
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  Speaker 1: As long as our country is still vulnerable, we should
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  Speaker 1: still fight for me. It's a form of survival. But
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  Speaker 1: also being in this movement is being privileged. Not everyone
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  Speaker 1: has the time and capacity to be in this movement
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  Speaker 1: because they have to work in order to feed their families.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, she does talk about how within her village,
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  Speaker 1: specifically because they were fishers, uh, that the constant storms
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  Speaker 1: would push out the fish further and further into the ocean,
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  Speaker 1: and that that would cause them more danger because they
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  Speaker 1: would have to be in these smaller boats that could
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  Speaker 1: capsize and or be caught up in the storm while
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  Speaker 1: they're fishing, and how much more danger it puts them
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  Speaker 1: in because of all of that, And she continues to say,
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  Speaker 1: and when I have received anonymous threat and intimidation, at first,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I was being heard and a ticket
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  Speaker 1: as a positive. I wasn't scared until they try to
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  Speaker 1: go for my family, And yeah, that is so so
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine, yeah, yeah, um. And the advice she
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  Speaker 1: would give to the young activists seeking to make change.
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  Speaker 1: Don't ever underestimate your power to make a change. I
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  Speaker 1: know those are big words, but if you want to
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  Speaker 1: be part of the movement, you're already a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Every single one of us doing something for the environment
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  Speaker 1: is already a selfless move because you're not just doing
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  Speaker 1: that for yourself and your community. You're doing it for us,
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  Speaker 1: the people who have already suffered from the brunt of
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  Speaker 1: the climate crisis. Right. So thank you from one person
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  Speaker 1: who did not take this seriously enough and I don't
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  Speaker 1: see the massive impact like you do. Maran Nell Ubaldo,
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  Speaker 1: who was doing such amazing work, doing some amazing things.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, she also talks about the importance of voting
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  Speaker 1: and being involved in policies and activism, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a big thing that we've heard kind of throughout
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  Speaker 1: as we talk about these different activists and advocates who
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  Speaker 1: talked about what it takes to really make change, and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that she's just out there and making sure
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  Speaker 1: that she is bringing to light what many people have
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  Speaker 1: been shutting down and uh, and just also bringing in
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  Speaker 1: that personal experience of seeing the tragedy that this can cause.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you so much for your work. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for letting us know what is happening and
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  Speaker 1: challenging us to do better. Yeah. Yeah, I've been really
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  Speaker 1: impressed with younger people and their activism and around things
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  Speaker 1: like this. And as we've discussed before, the environment impacts
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  Speaker 1: all of us, the environment we live in, and there's
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  Speaker 1: all these intersections within it um and like access sort
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  Speaker 1: of what you talked about as well. So there are
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  Speaker 1: these huge conversations to have, but we need to be
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  Speaker 1: having them because we all live here. So yes, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your work and for being so inspiring. As
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