Hello and welcome to outrage and optimism a new podcast about dealing with the climate crisis and reshaping the world. My name's Tom Rivek Karnak. I'm

Christina figures and I'm Paul Dickinson.

Welcome to this our second bonus episode

and today in anticipation of the global school strikes that will take place this Friday

we bring you a conversation with Greta Thumburg place this

week, on Friday, on Friday the day,

So later this week, on Friday the 24th of May, there will be a school strike.

Now, of course, these happen every Friday but smartly those who are

organizing them have periodic global days where a massive young people around the world all

coordinate to strike together and this one looks like being big, even by their impressive standards.

Strikes are happening in well over 100 countries on every continent, and when you consider that the last one had more than 1.5

million young people on the streets around the world this is going to be a huge deal.

Now these strikes of course were originated by Swedish teenager Greta Thumburg

who started striking on our own outside parliament in Stockholm at the fall of last year.

Greta has really become the voice of a generation in a remarkably

short space of time, precipitating among many of us that have been working in this space for

a while, a sense that this moment is something new and we have to find every way we possibly can

to support these brave young people who are justifiably outraged by the world they are

inheriting and are determined to make a difference.

A few months ago in Davos at the World Economic Forum, we shared an apartment with Greta and

her dad Svante and had the opportunity to get to know them.

I have to say I am used to meeting people who are well known for one reason or another

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