“This experience of empathy made me think a lot,” says Marta Popyk, a lawyer working in the sector of renewables. “Different people have different experiences on this planet. My life, personally, is quite comfortable, nice and pleasant despite numerous problems existing in the contemporary world, because I have privileges. But at the Green Academy, I was able to share the experience of other people who cannot live like I do, and some cannot do it because of climate change and other problems which do not affect me in an equally critical way. We had a lot of exercises that allowed us to live a slightly different life—that of another person with other problems—and feel the power of these green values and the pain of their absence.”