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Speaker 2: What a way to end the day, Jane Fonda and

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Speaker 2: it's amazing.

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Speaker 3: So we have so much to talk to you about, Jane,

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Speaker 3: Megan and I are so excited.

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Speaker 2: I know the audience is excited.

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Speaker 3: And I want to start by asking you because I

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Speaker 3: climate activists who think about the environment because of you, fair.

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Speaker 3: That wasn't as enthusiastic as I was hoping for, but

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Speaker 3: we'll get you there.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure I think of climate because of some

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Speaker 3: In the right, probably true. So to that end, what

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Speaker 3: ignited you? What made you think about this back in

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Speaker 1: I think the fact that I was born in nineteen

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Speaker 1: there can be two billion of us. Well, US has

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