What the hell is going on right now? And why is it happening like this? At Wired, we're obsessed with getting to the bottom of those questions, and maybe you are too. I'm Katie Drummond, the global editorial director of Wired, and I'm hosting our new podcast series, The Big Interview. Each week, I'll sit down with some of the most interesting, provocative, and influential people who are shaping our right now.

Listen to the big interview right now in the same place you find Wyard's Uncanny Valley podcast.

The sea coast in Ireland draws visitors with its natural beauty.

It has also become a popular entry point into Europe for cocaine traffickers.

It's a paradise for tourist, but it's also a paradise for drug smoking.

I'm Carolyn Beeler.

And I'm Marco Wurman.

More about the flow of cocaine into Europe. Also, as Washington turns up the pressure on the government in Venezuela, we'll hear what Venezuelans are thinking. The question on everybody's lips is, well, what do you think? What's going to happen? I mean, are they going to invade? Also, today marks two years since the Hamas attack on Israel, a day that changed the way many Israelis think.

It made me just feel like, wow, I want to protect us and I want to do it in as moral way as possible.

But boy, my priorities become protecting us.

All that and more today, here on the world.

This is the world. I'm Marco Wurman.

And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for joining us today. Solar power is renewable. It is

cheap and it is more popular than ever. So much so that solar appears to be reshaping the global

energy mix. New research finds that for the first time ever, renewable sources of energy, primarily solar, now provide more electricity globally than coal. What's driving this change is a focus of today's big fix, our series on climate change solutions. Rowell Miranda is with a climate think tank in the UK called Ember, which carried out that research.

He spoke with us earlier today from Rio de Janeiro.

For more than a century, a coal and gas were the backbone of progress, so they powered industries and cities.

But now for the first time since the industrial revolution, the growth of electricity,

is coming from clean sources instead of fossil ones.

What would you say are the factors that are driving this trend?

I mean, the short answer will be technology, the cost and momentum.

And solar and wind have become the cheapest forms of new power in most parts of the world.

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