and wherever we go and speak to young people, they are all very concerned about the environment. they love it. children love being outdoors, they love getting muddy, they love playing, chasing and playing sport and all that stuff. i think they have a truer appreciation of what we are going to miss and what we are letting go of than actually many of the adults. that is where a bit of the disconnect is happening. those adults in positions of responsibility are not channelling their inner child to remind themselves, to remember, how much it meant to be outdoors and what we are robbing those future generations of, that outdoor childhood. have your children got to the age where they are starting to nag you about this? quite often, that is the way round it works. george at school recently has been doing litter picking, and i didn t realise, but talking to him the other day, he was already showing
with sir david attenborough which has been on bbc one. yeah. it was very good. and it is all on iplayer. and i thought we could now do the second half of the podcast, which i am calling it s a royal box set, which if you don t know the reference to it s a royal knockout, you would not believe it if i told you what it was. i never watched it, but i gather it did not go down that well so, yes, thank you for bringing that up, adam. so yes, we are going to watch some of the highlights of the series. it s very meta. we are going to film ourselves watching you being filmed talking about ea rthshot. there is nothing uncomfortable about that at all. it doesn t get more newscast than that! yeah. sounds awesome. right, let s watch you on tv. so five episodes, this is some of the highlights. i ll do the remote control. also, i should say, this isn t your tv, this is our tv, so if i scroll down, i m not going to get your recently watched. that s good. which would have been fascinating to see. at l
the curve of the earth. that s close enough to space for me. cos you can come back down again. it s in the orbit, so it s ok. i dread to think of the carbon footprint of a rocket going into space for ten minutes. that is also a fundamental question. and is the idea that basically you are a technological optimist and actually in an ideal world, technology, politics and business can look after all of this stuff for us and you and i as individuals may be actually might not need to change our lives that much? absolutely, adam. so that is the key, it s about inspiring and finding solutions that can be around us right now and hopefully in the future, rather than just the debate concentrating on what we need to give up, what we can t do, which is very negative. all of us, as much as we will try, even if all of us did a little bit here and there to change our ways, it still isn t going to be enough. that s the thing i think we have to get across, that this is a big challenge, this is a big tas
bigger and bigger. so, yes, he is acutely aware, more so than the other two at the moment. charlotte is still a little bit young, she s still not quite sure, and louisjust enjoys playing outside the whole time, he lives outside, but i think it is slowly dawning on them that these things matter. but when you are that young, you just want to have fun and enjoy it, and ifeel bad. i don t want to give them the burden of that worry. i suppose going in the other direction, your dad has been worried about this stuff for a very long time, and people used to take the mickey out of him a little bit for it. absolutely. i think it has been a hard road for him. my grandfather started off helping out the wwf a long time ago with nature work and biodiversity, and i think my father sort of progressed that on and talked about climate change a lot more very early on before anyone else thought it was a topic. yes, he s had a really rough ride on that, and i think he has been proven to have been well ahea
it is good to see you, adam, nice of you to be here. i ve explained the basics of what the prize is to people already. but for you what was the eureka moment when you thought, i ve got to do something about this? where were you? so, it s been in the back of my mind for quite a while, you know, the whole climate change debate, environmental issues, pollution, so i ve always felt very strongly about it and i ve been watching very carefully what others have been doing, and for me over the last few years, the sort of urgency and the positivity, particularly the positivity around the debate, has been missing. it s been very negative. understandably, it s such a large issue that everyone feels completely overwhelmed by the facts, the scale of the problems and things like that. so we wanted to break it down and try and work out how could we add something that was going to create action and create positivity, create energy towards actually solving some of these problems? i think for me it so