(phone rings)
- [Man] Hello.
- [Woman] (speaks in hindi)?
- [Man] I was just reading Animal Farm.
- [Woman] From pig to man and man to pig?
- [Man] (speaks Hindi).
- [Woman] Sorry, sorry.
Yesterday I was browsing
and I came across this thing.
Remember we went to that temple once
and panditji said (speaks Hindi)?
- [Man] You were talking about the floods in Uttarkand
and he said it was nature reclaiming the land?
- [Woman] Yes, yes, so apparently
we are officially entering the Anthropocene era
which means nature no longer determines
what happens to the earth, man does.
- [Man] You sound like internet.
- [Woman] I guess if you really thing about it,
it makes you feel like your parents are dead.
- [Man] Okay that's one way
but isn't that what happens in nature
like you raise the kids
and leave it to third person?
- [Woman] I don't think that's applicable here.
For one, what you are talking about is
lions growing up to be lions
and snakes, snakes.
We don't grow up to be nature.
We are just one species.
- [Man] Sahi, but it does feel like
coming of age.
The age of the elders has passed.
The age of men has begun.
- [Woman] But you know isn't it so jarring right,
like the responsibility because
it is officially on us now.
- [Man] (mumbles) that's why the message is here.
It is just a matter of
taking official charge.
What's scary of course is the finality of it.
- [Woman] This maybe completely unrelated but
you know the concept of latent heat right?
- [Man] Yeah okay, what about it?
- [Woman] Okay it is misleading
because let's say I'm water from the river.
Okay I've always known that I'm liquid
and I don’t know any other state.
Then someone is heating me
and my temperature is raising.
Let's say I'm at 73 degree.
I take some heat and raise to 74
then 75, and I'm worried
and it is rising, rising, rising till at a 100 degrees
which I just think is some random point.
- [Man] Heating on.
- [Woman] Yeah I'm stable
and my temperature is stable that is
and now actually that's a phase change
from liquid to steam.
So I'll keep on absorbing latent heat
but with absolutely no change of temperature
till all the liquid has completely changed.
Now well other things are also happening
but let's say I only care about stuff
that can be quantified, so temperature.
Therefore I'm happy
and that's what's misleading.
I'm no longer revolting the continuous heat
I'm being subjected to
and suddenly fooosh, I'm all steam.
And it is scary
and what's more my temperature is raising again.
- [Man] (laughs) Sahi, but so?
- [Woman] Yeah, so you know it is scary like this
that we are humans.
We have crossed the boiling point
and there were signs.
People kept on talking about global warming
and global dimming,
but somebody knew that things would be mostly predictable
but now we've transformed and now we are...
- [Man] Steam?
- [Woman] All of us and whatever we do
and now you don't have the heat
and temperature will raise again
but like now we've no clue what happens
because we are not used to being steamed
and we haven't characterised us as steam.
Am I making sense?
- [Man] Yeah, it sounds goofy
but yeah actually.
- [Woman] (sighs) God, what are you doing?
(static noise)
Sorry dropped my phone.
Yeah what are you doing?
(rhythmic drum music)