I am Akshadrati, a senior reporter for Bloomberg Green.

Welcome to Zero.

Now let me take you back to an extraordinary heat wave in London this summer.

The air felt like it was straight from a desert.

And as a reporter, I took the opportunity to go out and talk to people about their feelings

on climate change and how it's affecting them.

I feel like there's just this impending doom.

I'm constantly anxious about it.

If it's causing this heat wave, then it's making it very hard to sleep.

They're worried, and it's not hard to see why.

Just look at what's happened since talking to them in July.

A third of Pakistan has been flooded.

California has been pushed close to blackouts by a heat wave.

Europe has suffered spectacular wildfires, and the Yangtze River in China dried up.

The climate crisis is reshaping everything around us.

And it's a crisis caused by us.

We have pumped out huge amounts of greenhouse gases in pursuit of growth, changing the climate in the process.

Look, that growth has been broadly good for us.

I grew up in India and when I look at my own family, I see that every generation has lived longer,

we've had ever-growing opportunities, and fortunately, that's helped each generation become richer.

That story, well, my story, is shared by hundreds of millions of other people around the world.

But how true will it be for future generations? Because the very things that powered progress

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