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EN , GR
Episode 4

In the Agreement Barometer exercise, the facilitator reads a series of statements about air quality and everyday habits in Ljubljana and asks participants to position themselves along an invisible line in the room, from disagreement to agreement, turning opinion into a visible group map. The first questions was whether air quality affects mood. As the questions shift toward life choices, the group draws clearer lines: moving away due to air quality is met with strong refusal from some participants, indicating that relocation feels too extreme or unrealistic, while dependence on the car is openly acknowledged by others who agree they could hardly live without it. In the second part, questions about trust in authorities provoke laughter and political jokes, signalling a default posture of scepticism toward institutions. Traffic measures are framed by some through convenience rather than ecological urgency, while responsibility for pollution becomes contested, with most leaning toward industry as the main driver yet one participant reintroducing population scale as an argument that individuals still matter. A statement about closing windows due to bad air produces a striking contrast, with one participant strongly agreeing and others reacting with surprise, exposing different thresholds of sensitivity and different lived experiences of pollution. The session ends with divided opinions on expanding car-free zones, showing how urban planning becomes a contested terrain where convenience, habit, and environmental ideals collide.

F=Facilitator, P=ParticipantĀ 

P: Bike is more convenient and environmentally friendly than carĀ