It's the Bryan Lair Show on WNYC.

I'm Brigitte Bergen, Senior Reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, filling in

for Bryan today.

On today's show for Climate Week, we're doing a climate story of the week every day.

And today, in our usual Tuesday climate spot, we'll be talking to Alene Brown, who

want an award for covering climate now, media consortium on her reporting about the

impact of climate change on prisons and incarcerated people.

Plus next hour, have you noticed that food allergies have been on the rise for about

the last 20 years?

We'll look at just how prevalent they are and what's behind it.

And Gen Z, if you're listening, especially if you're at work at home, we want to hear

from you about how weird it has been to start your working career in this way.

Have you ever actually met your boss and person or gone to an impromptu happy hour?

If the answer is no, maybe you think that's totally fine or maybe you're missing out.

Stay tuned for that conversation.

At first, President Biden is expected to speak this morning at the United Nations, here

in Manhattan, to a gathering of leaders from across the globe.

It's his third speech to the UN as president, beyond talking about what he considers his

administration's achievements, the New York Times reports that he's planning to make

this central focus of the speech, the need to protect democracies.

It's easy to imagine that a speech may focus on the challenges being faced by democracies

elsewhere and problems across the globe, the war in Ukraine, struggling economies in

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