We could have prepared, but we didn’t. What's the response? | Join us with David Shukman

Wildfires burning houses in London suburbs. Downpours severe enough to drown people trapped in basements. Record heatwaves paralysing our railways and hospitals. This isn't fiction. It's Britain now — and we aren't ready. 

Join us for a breakfast webinar conversation between David Shukman, former BBC Science Editor and author of the new book The Response, along with Rupert Read of the Climate Majority Project and pioneering special guests from the grassroots.. 

"Masterful storytelling... this is such an important book." - JON SOPEL

"A vital wake-up call for a world already on the frontlines. This is climate change stripped of rhetoric and abstraction, delivered at the painful ground level." - CHRISTIANA FIGUERES

Together they'll ask the question the Doomsday Clock — now at 89 seconds to midnight — makes urgent: how do we respond, when the seemingly inconceivable is already becoming reality?

Shukman's latest book is a gripping account of the climate extremes already hitting our bodies, buildings and landscapes — and a serious argument that we could have been prepared, but weren't. That lives are being lost that could have been saved. And that it doesn't have to be this way. 

We at the Climate Majority Project share that conviction. Most people already feel the weight of what's coming — but feel alone with it, and unsure what to do. Our work is grounded in a simple insight: adaptation isn't just a practical necessity, it's a political lever. When communities come together to protect their futures — their homes, their services, their neighbourhoods — they discover they aren't alone. And in finding each other, they begin to understand how many of them there are. That discovery is the beginning of real political change. This conversation will explore what it means to respond — at the personal, community, and political scale — and why the moment to act is already here.

Please note: our breakfast webinars open at around 8.15. Feel free to bring your breakfast — we'll start promptly at 8.30am.