The following transcription is an interview given by Mr. Blackmore to The Warrior Messenger’s Amelia Carrero about the weather in Ecuador.

Amelia Carrero (Host): May I record this interview?

Mr. Blackmore (science teacher at WMS): Sure!

AC: Okay so what’s your role at WMS?

MB: What is my role at WMS? I am a 25 year experienced science teacher that loves the water and loves life and wants all of my students to realize that we live on this limited resources planet and I’m here to help them to be the best they can be!

AC: That’s really nice, really inspiring! So my question to you is how warm do you think it is in Ecuador?

MB: How what?

AC: How warm?

MB: Warm what?

AC: In Ecuador.

MB: Ecuador! So Ecuador is on the equator so they have 12 hours of day, 12 hours of night so during the day it is definitely warmer. I’m gonna say in degrees celsius I think 34 and degrees fahrenheit I’d say average temperature, like 85 and I think it rains at some point in time almost everyday in a rainforest. And the forest themselves can actually get so much rain that the trees are underwater and they’re in season. But then during the dry season the rivers flow back into the water but there’s also 12 hours of night and during the night it does cool down for the amount of time that’s there.

AC: Yeah it’s the same for my home country Dominican Republic. It’s pretty similar. 

MB: DR is in the Caribbean that sort of island and about the same, you know latitude. But also DR is surrounded by water so if you’re up high in mountains even in DR it gets a little cool, it’s pleasant. You know it’s not as hot as you would think because you’re surrounded by all that Caribbean sea and water doesn’t warm up as quickly as the land does. 

AC: Okay is there anything else you would like to add?

MB: Okay let’s see, we should be aware of the resources and be open to all the people. We need everybody! I mean I know we still talk about countries. We’re not countries, we are 8 billion people living on planet earth and we gotta find the best way possible, we, we have food! When I was your age we thought “oh we’re gonna run out of food!” We never ran out of food!

Humans have this wonderful brain, stop being dependent on some AI or some other baloney that’s gonna make decisions for us. We can make all these wonderful thoughts with the amount of energy to run a lightbulb. So we could do it for a lightbulb of energy and when we depend on our AI we have millions of lightbulbs to try to do the same thing and it can’t even do it. So the creativity of the human mind will never be surpassed. We are just talking about AI. Humans will always be there, using their creative skills. And maybe the AI does the “boring stuff” that we don’t want to do, okay, so we can let it take over those jobs. But never let it take over the important conversations me and you are having about being appreciative of the people and other areas.

The resources in other areas to be aware. I don’t want to eat orange juice. [Mr. Blackmore imitates someone asking] “Wait, what Mr Blackmore?” In Ecuador they are cutting down the rainforests and they are planting orange and coffee trees cause they think that is somehow better for the environment. Ecuador is a beautiful mountainous environment in the most pristine place. If we can keep that and we can think collectively then we get to live here, go down to Ecuador, go on vacation, ecotourism, keep that environment thriving and help the people there and it helps the people there too. 

AC: That’s really nice, thank you so much for your time! 

MB: Thank you!