Hi podcast listeners today climate protests are happening just outside our office here in London and actually around the world and we have

Correspondent Michael Holmes out on the streets for us talking to the activists and the leaders about their cause.

I'm also joined by producer and director of the new Netflix series Our Planet.

It is voiced by the legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough.

We talk about why we need to act now for our climate and our

planet. Then how did we get to this point? The author Nathaniel Rich takes us back

through the politics of climate change denial in the United States and

Harries in San Diego talking to Priscilla Chan one half of the Chan Zuckerberg

initiative with her husband Mark Zuckerberg about education reform and Facebook's taxes.

Enjoy the show! Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London which today has been clogged up by a movement gaining critical momentum

It's called Extinction Rebellion thousands of people in 88 cities across the globe

blocking roads and slowing down traffic in order to speed

up government action to stop climate change.

Their rebellion is against the extinction of our species. It's motivated by the science which says that we have

until 2030 just 11 years to save ourselves from a catastrophic rise in global

temperatures due to untrammeled carbon emissions.

Perhaps the most famous leader of these new wave climate protesters

is the 16 year old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg

who's leading hundreds of thousands of students in cities around the world

on Friday school strikes and rallies.

Together these protests are paying off, pushing climate change up the political agenda and making politicians

talk about green policies in ways they haven't done before from the grassroots

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