Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism.

My name's Tom Rifikarnack.

I'm Christina Figuero,

and I'm Paul Dickinson.

Thanks for joining us.

This week, we look at the global climate strikes that are approaching a

serious moment of inflection with the arrival of Greta in the United States and

two big moments coming up in the next month. We look at where we are and ask where we go from here.

Plus, we speak to Isra Hersey, Executive Director of U.S. Youth Climate Strike.

Thanks for being here this week. We have a great episode for you today as we dig into one of the most exciting and fast moving areas in the whole global response to climate change and we look at where we are on the global

climate strikes. This week a lot has happened.

Greta Thumburg arrived in New York the day before yesterday after sailing across the Atlantic

to a raptuous reception in Manhattan and is now

as we speak striking outside the UN.

In the coming weeks, she'll be spending time on the eastern seaboard as well as joining the first global strike

on the 20th of September with many of her colleagues who've been running the initiative in the

U.S.

This is really significant that this movement has arrived in a big way in the US,

and it's also significant because on the 23rd, world leaders will be gathering at the United Nations

at the request of Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary General to begin in earnest the political

process leading towards more national ambition under the Paris

Agreement.

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