Hey everyone, it's Tom here.

So this week we have a fantastic episode of Outrageant Optimism for you which is coming

out on Thursday.

It's an episode where we dig in detail into a specific issue and what we do this week

is we look at the food systems summit, issues around agriculture, food commodities, how

those things are coming together.

It's a great conversation and that will be with you as normal on Thursday.

But the reason I'm talking to you now is because a couple of other really consequential

things have happened in the few days since we last published and I wanted to just make

this small, additional episode to help us dig into it because there's so much going

on right now.

One of these was around the attitudes of young people towards climate change.

This is a really fascinating and alarming study.

It was led by Bath University in collaboration with five other universities funded by our

good friends at Avaz and it was across 10 countries looking at people between the ages

of 16 and 25 and they spoke in all to 10,000 people.

Now the results demonstrate the severity of what we're facing.

Nearly 60% of young people said they felt very worried or extremely worried about climate

change and 45% said that they had feelings about climate change and anxieties and concerns

that profoundly affected their daily lives.

56% said they think that humanity is doomed and two thirds reported feeling sad, afraid

and anxious.

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