Paolo served as chief human resources officer at the World Economic Forum and chief learning officer at the World Bank.
Paolo, why don't we take maybe the next 10 minutes.
Paolo, thank you very much for really inspiring 45 minutes talk.
Paola sends in her form that her child can touch all seven powders.
Paola, I'm going to go to you.
Paolo: Okay. Can--can people hear me okay? I can't really judge levels. I can see heads nod or something like that . Okay, great. This isn't actually my natural mode
Paolo: And--and I write that third novel. And--and I--I write it. I sent it to my agent.
Paolo: Okay, so now I think I'm really--I--I'm learning here. I was try, fail, learn, try, fail, learn. Okay. And so then I sit down and I go, "Okay. I can--I can do this. I'm
Paolo: -at least I get to write. And writing makes me less crazy than when I'm not writing.
Paolo: And--and this time I was like, "I really have learned some things. I'm gonna write this in a year. I know what I'm doing." And--and so I sat down and I started working. And I
Paolo: -except for th--this time there was a small press publisher in San Francisco called Nightshade Books. And where there hadn't been that kind of a resource before, Nightshade
Paolo: And--and science fiction just isn't respected. Science fiction, when you say the word science fiction people already look at you and say, "I don't read science fiction."
Paolo: The familiar stench of unwashed bodies, cooked food, and shit washes over me as I come through the door. Cruiser lights flicker through the blinds, sparkling in rain and
Paolo: All right. So the thing I like about science fiction is the opportunity to take
Paolo: And--and I was--and then I was like they're squirrels. Okay, they're squirrels. And I am still thinking, "Do people really let these rodents run around [audience
Paolo: Yeah, I've thought about it. I actually--I--I actually have these really complicated sort
Paolo: Yeah, actually I think we--we--especially in the United States, I sort of feel like we--we actually have--we start out with a really high level comfort level of consumption.
Paolo: Thank you.
Paolo Woods: Hello, my name is Paolo Woods. I'm the son of a Dutch mother and a Canadian father. I was brought up in Italy.
Paolo Woods: So how did we do this story? This is the kind of story that cannot anymore be financed by a magazine or a newspaper. No newspaper will send you today for over
Paolo Woods: And here we are in a steel factory also in Nigeria, owned by a friend of Jacob Wood we just saw. And what you see here is a Chinese supervisor
Paolo Woods: This is another factory. This is a biscuit factory -- Nabisco biscuit factory. And it's interesting because, this factory
Paolo Woods: This is the wife of Mr. Wood, the man we saw in the very first photograph under the umbrella -- or I should probably better say, one of the wives of Mr. Wood -- because,
Paolo Woods: This dam, when completed, will double Congo's electricity output.
Paolo Woods: And this, you could say, is a photograph speaking about the birth of the
Paolo Woods: Here we're on the beach of Pointe-Noire in Congo.
Paolo Woods: This is the husband of Jessica, Mr. Zhang, and he is photographed here in
Paolo Woods: And you here see one of these trees falling.
Paolo Woods: Here's another case. Another worker showing off his night catch which then will become his lunch.
Paolo Woods: And he does party a lot. He parties hard with his friend.
Paolo Woods: And now we are in the north of Africa, in Nigeria.
Paolo Woods: The Chinese working on government projects, tend to live in a very isolated way. They live in compounds cut off from the local
Paolo Woods: And here, we're again in one of these camps where the Chinese live.
Paolo Woods: And this is still in Angola. This is an engineer on his one day of a month
Paolo Woods: And here, we go to Zambia, where Chinese farmers are buying big parts of land
Paolo Woods: And they're doing a lot of business. Like, in this case, this is one of the bosses, one of the companies standing on some of the copper that he's extracted.
Paolo Woods: Here is Vivian and her four-year-old son, Jonathan.
Paolo Woods: If anybody has questions concerning -- yes.
Paolo Woods: None of us is actually French.
Paolo Woods: I think it's -- I mean, because the only reason I ask is like, their relationship with like a couple
Paolo Woods: Well, I have problems with the word "colonial," because colonial immediately defines in the minds of the Africans a very specific period, very specific things.
Paolo Woods: I forgot what the first part of the question is.
Paolo Woods: No, it's coming back fast, the West.
Paolo Woods: Mm-hmm. It seems like if American corporations tried to go in there, they wouldn't be able to compete with that. There would be a lot of backlash.
Paolo Woods: You have loads of western environmental NGOs in Africa trying to protect African environment.
Paolo Woods: And a lot of African businessmen are not part of the diaspora in the sense they don't live in China all the time, but will go there regularly.
So Paolo is a friend.
So Paolo calls me.
Sao Paolo baptismal records from the 1700s show that half of all the women were named Maria, Anna, or Gertrude.
The Paoa family were quite influential as waterman.