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Eric Garcetti

Eric Garcetti

Former Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of India

Jul 28, 2026

1:37
Enjoy.
1:39
L.A. commotion and then commotion came.
1:42
I loved the pun.
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I loved the philosophy.
1:45
And I loved the content.
1:46
And I loved leadership, by the way.
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It was something that really, to me, in a place that had always been cutting edge when it came to transportation, whether that was to the heavens or the skies or even on the ground with a red car and then the freeways when they were cutting edge.
4:34
I mean, how do you
6:29
Go ahead.
6:30
No, no, don't worry.
6:31
Activists, I think, sometimes think it just, as long as you say yes, it will happen.
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But even after you say yes, you need a lot of really good technical people to make that happen.
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I'll go back to one story.
6:40
In 2000, I think two or three, we were voting to renew our coal plant that I believe was either Navajo, which was on Navajo territory in the Southwest, or one of the other neighboring ones in the Southwest, because Los Angeles imports a lot of this coal.
6:58
dirty coal burning power that was predominantly in Indian land.

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But for you, when somebody's like, can you explain C40 for me? How do you describe the work?
15:00
Oh, cool.
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Which a lot of people don't know.
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That's why it's called Olympic Boulevard.
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Um, in 1984, '76 Olympics in Montreal had almost bankrupted the city.
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People said it's dead.
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There was boycotts in Moscow, boycotts coming to LA, and we launched a private sponsorship model, and brought in the first wheelchair race, and saved the Olympics, saved the US Olympic Committee, et cetera.
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And so we kind of said in our bid we would make this the most sustainable games ever, even carbon positive, because every game says they're gonna be the greenest, but that's really in the operations.

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How do we make diplomacy live?

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