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After exploring the “Why” of The Gravity Well conversation in Round 1, and questioning “Who-is-who-in-the-Zoo” in Round 2, explore our collective goals in the Round 3.

This summary captures the discussions on various critical issues, including the importance of historical context, the impact of urbanization on climate, indigenous rights, agricultural policies, and the urgency of addressing climate change. Speakers emphasize the need for context in understanding historical and current events, the effects of urban heat islands on weather patterns, and the historical and ongoing dispossession of indigenous peoples. They advocate for local support, regenerative agriculture, and the importance of grassroots movements in combating climate change. The dialogue also touches on global issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the role of the UN, and the need for systemic change to address oppression and inequality. The overarching theme is a call to action for individuals and communities to engage in meaningful change to address these pressing issues.

Highlights from our conversations under the umbrella of “Where Are We Going?”, firstly among ourselves (15), with Regan Boychuk (16), Harley Bastien (17), Shannon Stunden Bower and J. Bruce Smedley (18), Janet Pennington, Kristy Jackson, and Lori Curtiss (19), and Beau Shaw, Walaa Katoue, and Wesam Khalid (20).

Regan Boychuk – Independent Researcher | Polluter Pay Federation Board Member | Roofer

When I started to look back at the history books, even the history books in Canada had the strange thing when I went to go look for important events, it wouldn’t include the date or I’d have to check four different sources and find in a footnote on page 800 that there would be the date and how difficult it would be. The biggest research insight I’ve had in the last year is taking all these facts I gather from all these different and simply putting them in chronological order and it makes it perfect, it doesn’t take anything more than common sense that any roofer has that you can see quite clearly what’s happening. My biggest insight is that there’s no truth without context. That any fact or any date or anything, you put it over here and it means nothing. You put it in its context, it could mean everything. And that’s the main trick of the media of Concision of now. Now it’s over. I got to go. I got to go. Next one, next one.

Jenny Yeremiy – Co-Host | Geophysicist | Liability Expert | Public Activist

It normalizes. Yeah, it makes everything equally important and doesn’t, like you said, help us understand that context. Alex and I were having a conversation yesterday about something Jordan Peterson spoke about, how when people talk about temperature sensors on the earth, “Well, they’re used to not be concrete there and therefore we can ignore it because now there’s concrete.” Well, but no, the context of that is the concrete is part of the warming. That’s a whole part of our addition to [the landscape harm]. That’s an example of what you’re describing, a lack of context in what he’s saying so that people can grounded in saying, “Yeah, that’s true, and also part of the cumulative impact problem that we have and the temperature rising based on those activities.”

Alexander MacGillivray – Co-Host | Fine Arts Major | Jack-of-All-Trades

We need those sensors in urban areas, especially, because we need to know how much this heat bubble created by all this asphalt and all this concrete affects the stratosphere and how storms behave and where they move. If you create a microclimate like this heat bubble over the top of a city, you’ll see, and I’ve seen it because I’ve lived in Calgary my whole life. We used to get wicked storms in the northwest and now they all just split around the city and go to the rural areas around the city, so the storms split because of this unnatural environment the cities hav