The age of extinction: can we prevent an ecological collapse?
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:08.6 | Today, a meeting in Canada to try to halt the mass extinction of life on Earth. |
| 0:21.4 | I reached Hindu Umaru Ibrahim a few days ago on the sidelines of a global environmental summit in Montreal, Canada. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm from an indigenous communities that call it Bororo Pastor Alice. |
| 0:33.4 | I am from a Rowan Lake Chat. |
| 0:36.4 | Hindu belongs to the Embaroro people of the Central African Country of Chat. |
| 0:41.4 | So we do not have one place that we belong to, but we are belonging to all the place that we are moving to. |
| 0:49.4 | And she was telling me about all the ways the environment there is changing, |
| 0:53.4 | drying out and becoming quieter. |
| 0:56.4 | So when you are around Lake Chat, you see a lot of small islands that come out, just since my life times. |
| 1:05.4 | And you see around the islands some grass. |
| 1:08.4 | It used to be a lot of wild animals. |
| 1:12.4 | You can have elephant, you can have all the gazelles, but now you do not see the gazelles around the place. |
| 1:21.4 | And this is the sad ecosystem that are disappearing around all the places. |
| 1:29.4 | Hindu is a leader in her community. |
| 1:31.4 | She's used to giving interviews, but it was when I asked her what she missed most about what nature looked like when she was growing up. |
| 1:39.4 | That I felt her being transported away from Canada in winter. |
| 1:47.4 | Back to the places where she spent most of her life. |
| 1:52.4 | Oh my God, I miss the smile of all the different species of the nature. |
| 2:00.4 | When you are working there, you have a different flavor of perfume that is around all the places. |
| 2:07.4 | Surrounding your nose, it is not like a food. |
| 2:10.4 | So I miss that a lot. |
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