This is not a movie.

And the Doom's Day device is real.

Enough of burning and drilling and mining our way deeper.

We are digging our own graves.

Those of us who are responsible for much of the deforestation

and all the problems we have so far,

have an overwhelming obligations of the nations,

who in fact, were not there, have not done it.

It should be obvious that we cannot solve a crisis

with the same methods that goes into it in the first place.

When will we, as we are leaders across the world,

address the pressing issues that are truly causing our people

angst and worry, whether it is climate or whether it is vaccines?

Simply put, when will leaders lead?

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.

I'm Gailin Drook.

Today is the final day of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference

and diplomats from all over the world are scrambling

to piece together an agreement to show for their time in Glasgow.

Maybe by the time you're listening to this, they have announced a deal.

But regardless of the conclusion of COP26,

what we're interested in today is whether these types of international agreements

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