 I come from the part of Czech Republic, where are many coal mines and steelworks, and I remember as a child we would visit my relatives in a nearby town, and I didn't have brothers or sisters, and at the time there were no car seats, so I was sitting in the back of the car by myself, and we would go for kilometers and kilometers on a road next to the biggest Czech steelwork company, and I remember how terrified it was for me, how I tried to hide after I saw all those dark metal buildings and chimneys and metal carts that were slowly moving, like by themselves between different buildings with piles of steaming, I don't know, matter, and there would be these metal sounds when one piece banged into another and the chimneys were giving away tons of this grey and white and yellow and purple smoke, and the air was like this itching smell in the air, and it would make the eyes tear, and I would like to hide behind the window and put a pillow over my head so I wouldn't have to hear and smell and see all of that, and sometimes I would try to look on the other side of the road that didn't have any of this industry, but even that landscape seemed kind of dead. I felt like I tried these different strategies, how to deal with that feeling and kind of try to be strong and pretend it doesn't matter or really try to hide or think of something else, but it was always there, and I remember also thinking why does it bother me so much and why adults seem to be okay and why nothing is done about it, because somehow it's not logical, right? There is all that stuff coming out, eventually it will do something to our life. I myself have children and I work with young people, and so when there was global climate march organized and the Czech Republic had no one to coordinate it, there was a map in the world and I kept looking at that map and there was still no one to take that role, and one point I said, okay, I will try and do it, because I feel at least we must try.