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Hello and welcome to the Penguin podcast where we talk to writers about writing.

I'm Samira Ahmed and in in a special episode, I'm

talking to Greta Toonberg at the South Bank Centre as part of the London Literature Festival

for the global launch of The Climate Book. It's an essential handbook, created and edited by Greta,

bringing together the wisdom of more than 100 experts, geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists,

engineers, economists and mathematicians, historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders,

discussing the challenges that face us, but also a source of optimism,

aiming to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster.

Greta also shares her own stories of demonstrating

and uncovering green washing around the world,

revealing how much we have been kept in the dark.

It's a book, I should say, also full of the most beautiful, absorbing photographs.

I can't wait to hear what she has to say,

so lean in and listen to this special edition

of the Penguin podcast.

Greta, thank you so much. You were referring to so many of the world crises that have been

happening, but I was thinking as well, you've made your speech on a weekend when news bulletins

have finally been leading on climate change as a story again ahead of COP 27.

So there's been the UN report warning that not enough has been done to avoid 1.5 degrees sea warming.

And we're going to talk about some of those themes that you cover very much in the book,

the failures of the news media, the failures of government and the main

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