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.
Paolo : Okay.
Paolo : And--and I write that third novel.
Paolo : Okay, so now I think I'm really--I--I'm learning here.
Paolo : -at least I get to write.
Paolo : And--and this time I was like, "I really have learned some things.
Paolo : -except for th--this time there was a small press publisher in San Francisco called Nightshade Books.
Paolo : And--and science fiction just isn't respected.
Paolo : The familiar stench of unwashed bodies, cooked food, and shit washes over me as I come through the door.
Paolo : All right.
Paolo : And--and I was--and then I was like they're squirrels.
Paolo : Yeah, I've thought about it.
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.
Paolo Woods: So how did we do this story?
Paolo Woods: And here we are in a steel factory also in Nigeria, owned by a friend of Jacob Wood we just saw.
Paolo Woods: This is another 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.
Paolo Woods: And he does party a lot.
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.
Paolo Woods: And here, we're again in one of these camps where the Chinese live.
Paolo Woods: And this is still in Angola.
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.
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.
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.
That's in East Paolo Alto.
Last week in San Paolo they had massive water shortages, which caused riots.
Said to Paolo , what do you think is-- are you sure?