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And daniela, you're actually facing particular challenges in brazil because, of course, there it's very highly politcised as an issue because of the policies of mr bolsonaro. and i wonder if that means being a journalist in brazil, it also means you feel you're an activist too, in a sense? so more and more young people, more and more people are interested in climate issues in brazil and in the amazon. i'm a journalist — i think activists are a different kind of, let's say, animal. i'm not an ngo journalist — if i was, i would be an activist also. but of course, this is our huge challenge i...

Well, i don't share that observation. i see quite a lot of scientific dissent — as there should be. doubt is a core feature of science, and some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs consist of overthrowing earlier certainties of other scientists. so i agree, and many scientists say to me that they really struggle with journalists wanting to get definitive answers from them. going back to the elephant in the room, at least in many newsrooms, the activism question — my personal view is that journalists should not resort to activism, and there's no need for it. but we need to give the top...

And in this sense, my colleagues are activists. tom, do you think that climate change presents a challenge to the whole convention of journalistic objectivity? there will never be one day in which we can say, "climate change has happened!" it will always be, you know, ambiguous things. there'll be some heatwave in sub—saharan africa which kills some number of people — and is that climate change? probably, but there's no, sort of — and this is what will continue to happen, i think it'll be a real challenge for usover time. it'lljust be the world getting slightly worse in lots of little wa...

Time i heard any sort of nuanced scientific dissent. is that a problem, do you think? well, i don't share that observation. i see quite a lot of scientific dissent — as there should be. doubt is a core feature of science, and some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs consist of overthrowing earlier certainties of other scientists. so i agree, and many scientists say to me that they really struggle with journalists wanting to get definitive answers from them. going back to the elephant in the room, at least in many newsrooms, the activism question — my personal view is thatjournalists s...

In sports, food, gardening, real estate, technologyjournalism — and i think that's a really good thing. so we have made progress. ok, so it's normalised certainly from the people running these organisations — tom, what about the audience appetite for stories, the audience appetite? how are they feeling about reading all this stuff? well, i don't know. there's certainly a... without using numbers to check, i feel my instinct is there is a strong appetite for all angles on it — as in, there's still a big niche for people who want to write the contrarian stuff, saying, you know, you'll get ...