Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor in chief of

Current Affairs magazine. My guest today is George Mombio.

He is a columnist for the Guardian newspaper, an activist, the author of a number of books,

including The Age of Consent, Manifesto for a New World Order, including Out of the wreckage, a new politics for an age

of crisis and captive state, the corporate takeover of Britain. George, thank you so much for

joining me. Thanks, Nathan. You wrote in The Guardian recently a very moving column. You have

been a columnist for the Guardian since the mid-1990s, and a lot of your focus during that time

has been on climate and environment. The focus of your column, you start with

the new Netflix film Don't Look Up, which we reviewed in current affairs, and the premise of

which for anybody who doesn't know is that a comet, a planet-destroying comet is headed to Earth.

And instead of what usually happens in these movies, where the people of Earth manned together to stop the comet, the astronomers who have discovered the comet find that they cannot persuade anyone to take the comet seriously.

This comet is what we call a planet killer.

At this exact moment, I say we sit tight and assess.

Reviews of this film have been mixed.

Some people have said, oh, this is absolutely nothing like climate change.

This is shrill. This is smug. Your column, however, said that when you watch the film,

you said, quote, as if you felt as if you were watching your adult life flash past you,

and that over the past decades where you have been a communicator

on these issues, prominent commentator, trying to raise the alarm as felt like being trapped behind

a thick plate of glass where people can see our mouths opening and closing but struggling to hear what we are

saying. So perhaps we could start with what you meant by that? Why you found this depiction in the

film of the difficulty of communication so relatable personally? It's interesting the way the film has divided people. And the way it seems to me

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