This episode of SciShow Tangents was created in partnership with Bill Gates,

inspired by his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.

You can find out more about how we can all work together to avoid a climate disaster

by checking out the link of the show notes or heading to gatesnotes.com slash books.

Hello and welcome to SciShow Tangents, the lightly competitive knowledge showcase.

I am your host, Hank Green, and joining me this week as always is science expert,

Siri Riley. Hello. How are you?

Doing okay, climate science. I just finished editing a couple scripts about it,

so fresh in my brain. Yeah, it's a little bit always fresh in my brain, I have to say.

It's one of my chief anxieties as it should be. I do worry about a lot of things that maybe are

not that important, but this one seems pretty vital, Siri, am I wrong?

It's up there. It's one of the big things. I think I neglected it for a lot of my educational

career, and then it became this looming cloud above me of like, oh, I need to know a lot about this,

and then feel very helpless, but maybe a little bit empowered.

Yeah, well, we're always learning, and I think that the point, the hope is that it motivates

for action, not just to spare. And we also have joining us are resident every man, Sam Schultz.

Hello. Sam, how are you feeling about climate change?

Well, from my only slightly less informed opinion than Siri's, but pretty bad.

I mean, I have to agree with you. To me, it feels promising, and this is maybe a weird thing

to say, that the onus of it is shifting from personal responsibility to governmental

responsibility. That seems to be like a tide that's coming in, which feels good,

that I don't have to worry about driving my car every single time I drive it and feel horrible

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