You're listening to How to Be a Better Human.

I'm your host, Chris Duffy, and last week we aired our first episode of season five of this show.

But in the time since we taped that episode, the city where I live, Los Angeles, has suffered multiple devastating fires.

It's a crisis that is ongoing as I'm recording this.

And in fact, if my audio sounds a little different than it normally does that is ongoing as I'm recording this. And in fact, if my audio

sounds a little different than it normally does, it's because I'm recording this from outside

the city in an Airbnb while we figure out if it is safe to return. Right now, I'm sitting in a little

blanket fort that I made. But it's a very surreal feeling because I'm both so grateful and I feel

so lucky that my family and everyone who

works on this show is safe and that we haven't lost our homes.

But also knowing at the same time that so many people have, the scale of the destruction

is just almost impossible to wrap my head around.

You know, it's still unclear what caused these fires here in Los Angeles and what forces made them as destructive as they've been.

But as I'm recording this, I feel very acutely the power and the unpredictability of Mother Nature.

And across the globe, shifting climate patterns and extreme weather events are only making the world even more unpredictable.

Which is why I feel like this

episode that we're going to play today, an episode from the very first season of How to Be a

Better Human, actually makes a lot of sense to re-air this week. This episode is a conversation

with Louisa Newbauer, who's a young German woman who helped catalyze a global intergenerational

movement called Fridays for Future.

And Fridays for Future demanded action on climate change.

And we originally recorded this conversation back in 2020, but I have thought about it many times since then.

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