So today is an exciting day. I think we have to talk about two things, the climate

strikes happening all over around the world and the election in Australia

just a few days ago. Hello and

and welcome

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Hello and welcome to outrage and optimism a new podcast about dealing with the climate crisis and remaking the world my name's Tom Rivekarnack I'm

Christina figures and I'm Paul Dickinson.

And today, we discuss the global climate strikes

that are taking place right now in 120 countries.

And we also talk about the shift from school strikes to general strikes that will begin in September.

We also dig into what happened last week in the Australian elections.

And we talk to Bill McKibbon, author, activist and founder of 350.

Thanks for being here.

Right, so let's start with the strikes. We're sitting here today on Friday the 24th and images

and videos are flooding in from all around the world of thousands of young people on the streets in Australia, in Korea, in India, in the Philippines, in Syria as the day has sort of begun and obviously will sweep around the world as the day moves on and

it's really something to watch all of this and I just wanted to start by asking you

Christina as you sit here in London and we prepare to go down to the strikes ourselves in a bit.

How do you feel watching all of this?

Well I'm actually quite excited.

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