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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 ...

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 its a royal box set, which if you dont know the reference to its 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...

The curve of the earth. thats close enough to space for me. cos you can come back down again. its in the orbit, so its 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 tha...

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, shes 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 dont want to give them the burden of that worry. i suppose going in the other direction, your dad has been worried abou...

It is good to see you, adam, nice of you to be here. ive explained the basics of what the prize is to people already. but for you what was the eureka moment when you thought, "ive got to do something about this?" where were you? so, its been in the back of my mind for quite a while, you know, the whole climate change debate, environmental issues, pollution, so ive always felt very strongly about it and ive been watching very carefully what others have been doing, and for me over the last few yea...

So, yeah, is that a bit of an adventure, going up there? that was, yeah. id never been up a wind turbine, funnily enough. not your sort of average wednesday afternoon activity. but, yeah, it was really cool to talk to the guys who operate it, who work there, and just seeing the scale up there. i mean, how big is it? ive actually never seen one up close. i mean, i dont know what the stats are on how high it is, but it took us half an hour to get up the ladder. theres a tiny, narrow ladder inside ...

Was, there are 10 million ironing carts in india. right. thats just india. i mean, there are others in other countries, but india have got 10 million, all charcoal—fired. so huge polluters, massive co2 emissions all day long, and she has come up with this genius idea to turn it solar—powered. |the story started when i was 12 years old and i wasjust coming back home from schooll and i noticed the ironing vendors in my street using charcoal. - i knew there was somethingj wrong about it, so i d...

Boat and i think it was like £20,000 worth of kit that the bbc quite, you know, didnt want to splash in the water or smash onto the deck. so there was a lot of sweaty moments. but, no, it was really fun working with the team and filming that. you know, i dont do a david attenborough impression, you know, he would have done a better job, but i really enjoyed kind of explaining a bit about what, you know, the awards and things are about. yeah. this is a really dweeby question, but do you have a f...

That he was getting a bit confused and a bit sort of annoyed by the fact they went out litter picking one day, and then the very next day, they did the same route the same time and pretty much all the same litter they picked up was back again. i think that for him, he was trying to understand how and where it came from. he couldnt understand it. he was like, "we cleaned this. why has it not gone away?" and if we look at it like that, you start to realise that if you go back to childhood, "wow, y...

You know, it is a bit of a cliche, but you do start to see the world differently. and i want the things that i have enjoyed, the outdoor life and the sort of nature and environment, i want that to still be there, notjust for my children but everyone elses children, and we... if we are not careful, we are robbing from our childrens future with what we do now and i think that is not fair. so i am trying to use my little bit of influence, my little bit of profile, to highlight some incredible peopl...