Hello I'm Gabriel Gatehouse. This week's episode is asking one huge question. Can Finland save the planet?

Well, maybe that's a little bit strong, but seriously the Finns are trying.

They're going carbon neutral in 15 years time, but they have a big problem.

Pete.

And this week's episode is all about one man who thinks he's got the solution.

Maybe I can say about the creation of fire, how fire came to this world.

Welcome to assignment on the BBC World Service with me Gabriel Gatehouse.

According to our most old songs which have been dated at least 2, 3,000 years,

at the beginning of time the world was in darkness.

Since ancient times, on the edges of the Arctic Circle,

people have faced one big threat, the cold.

Now, the first spark fell from the sky.

And when the spark fell, it fell into a lake.

Their means of survival is recorded in their folklore.

In a world bound by snow and ice,

fire meant the difference between life and death.

So the people on the shores of this lake that were living in darkness saw the first

spark and they were wondering what to do what to do and they thought they will have to try to catch this park for survival for food for light for warm.

But now the world is changing.

The planet is on fire with the forest fires in Siberia, Alaska and elsewhere and then what happened in Greenland

What's going on in Antarctica and those a big huge indicators of how the planet is truly shifting.

The very thing that kept humans alive, burning stuff, is driving the whole planet to the brink.

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