Hello there, this is Chris Anderson, welcome to the Ted interview.

And today, a bonus episode that's a little different.

This is a live recording that took place a couple weeks ago in Bath, England.

As you may have heard in our last episode, Ted has recently launched a climate initiative

called Countdown, probably the most ambitious effort Ted's ever undertaken actually.

So this is a discussion about that initiative with an amazing man who's playing a key role

in it.

His name is Tom Rivett Kahnach, who worked alongside Cristiana Figueres, our guest in that

last episode, to architect the Paris Climate Agreement.

Essentially, this is Tom and I interviewing each other, me for the Ted interview and him

for his podcast Outrage and Optimism.

Tom's insights on climate are both remarkable and inspiring.

When you spend time with him, you come to believe that far from being powerless to act on

climate, there really is something each of us can do, and that collectively that could

make a truly meaningful difference in our response to this crisis.

And yes, it is a crisis.

To interview on the right, rolling your eyes, this isn't about partisanship, it really isn't.

It's about science.

The big picture of what's coming to us if we don't act is extremely clear and extremely

concerning.

So thank goodness for people like Tom, and without further ado, let's roll this.

So what you're about to hear is the first public conversation about an initiative that Tom

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