Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the show, just a minor trivial topic today, the future existence of human civilization.

The stakes are pretty high, I would say, when all is said and done.

Talking about COP26, which now takes place in Glasgow, where global leaders are convening in order to discuss measures to tackle the climate emergency.

So if global temperatures rise above 1.5 centigrade at pre-industrial levels, then humanity faces catastrophe.

And I'm afraid to say that the situation we currently face is catastrophe and it's about mitigating the scale of that calamity.

But we know that unless we take drastic measures, then we face ever more extreme weather events, destabilization of ecosystems, rising sea levels, droughts, fires, and much of our only planet, this tiny rock, which is orbiting through space,

being rendered uninhabitable for vast numbers of people to live, forcing many of them from their homes. Now, all of this is already happening.

The climate emergency is not some abstraction in the future, it's very much in the here and now.

But COP26 provides an opportunity to build pressure to put pressure on our leaders who are not doing enough in order to tackle this most critical of existential emergencies.

So we've got some great guests today and they're going to do most of the talking because I'll get in here. My voice is not, I mean, thank the Lord, many of you thinking, finally, finally being silenced by, by whatever this is, I don't know how COVID we've done that.

I think I've got that out my system, to be honest with you, the front as it was, it's not COVID, I've checked, but my voice is struggling.

So thankfully, we have some fantastic guests who will take the slack just before I go on. I can see also the Wi-Fi is also now struggling, so it's all happening today, but we're going to get through this.

And on the podcast, press subscribe as well, because much of our audience is, of course, on the very successful podcast, which often is at the top of the UK politics podcast charts.

And I should say as well, the documentaries we do, which you make possible, we have one finally coming out this week, which looks at the war of essentially property developers and working class communities.

So we spent time in a working class community in Battersea in South London, handing the megaphone to people, working class people in the community about their experiences.

It's going to be a really good, it's a fantastic video made, of course, by our team.

You made that possible on patreon.com for sash own Jones 84, or you can use Super Chat as Ted Campbell has already and David Barrett, if you use Super Chat as well, to put questions to our guests that also supports the show as well.

And I will read through the Super Chats at the end, I will thank everyone specifically for their support. Before my voice entirely collapse, I'm not going to bring in the fantastic Professor Mark Mazlin, who is a climate change professor at University College London.

Mark, hello.

How are you doing?

Great to see you.

Not too bad, but going to be a bit of a stressful two weeks, I feel.

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