TRUMP HAS DIALED BACK AN OBAMA POLICY THAT ASKED
FEDERAL AGENCIES TO REDUCE THEIR EMISSIONS.
LET'S BREAK DOWN WHAT
IS HAPPENING.
TRUMPS NEW ORDER IS BASICALLY ASKING AGENCIES TO SELF
REGULATE.
MY QUESTION FOR THE PANEL IS WHY ARE PRESCRIPTIVE
MEASURES IMPORTANT OR NOT IMPORTANT AND WHAT ARE
YOUR
PREDICTIONS?
LOWERING ITS CARBON FOOTPRINT, DID ANYONE THINK THAT THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION WOULD ENFORCE ANYTHING IN REGARD TO THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOING ITS PART TO REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS?
NO, THEY WERE GOING TO DO ANYTHING.
IT IS A MUST LIKE WE
ARE GOING TO SMEAR IT ALL OVER YOUR FACE.
WE WANT TO UNDO
ANYTHING THAT OBAMA DID, WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT CLIMATE
CHANGE IS REAL OR MAN-MADE AND SO YEAH, WE ARE GOING TO GO
AHEAD AND RESEND OR TAKE AWAY THESE OBAMA ERA RULES.
SELF REGULATION IS NOT REALLY A THING DIVE US COMPANIES, WOULD
LIKE TO SELF REGULATE, THEY SAY OH YEAH.
HERE IS THE AMOUNT OF
REGULATIONS I'M GOING TO DO THAT COST ME MONEY.
NONE.
THIS
LIBERTARIAN FANTASY, IT IS OKAY, BUT AFTER THEY HAVE CAUSED THE
DEATHS OF A LOT OF PEOPLE THEN PEOPLE WILL BUY THEIR PRODUCTS.
THAT IS NOT HOW THE REAL WORLD WORKS AND THIS IS THE CASE OF
GOVERNMENT.
IF YOU ARE IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND YOU
DECIDED YOU WERE GOING TO SELF REGULATE AND REALLY REDUCE YOUR
CARBON FOOTPRINT, YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE FIRED.
IN THE OLD DAYS,
AS IN OBAMA, THERE WERE CLEAR RULES THAT WE ALL HAD TO ABIDE
BY THESE RULES SO WE CAN MAYBE SAVE THE PLANET AND IN THIS
CASE, TRUMP IS SAYING, LOOK, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GOT THE MEMO,
I DON'T WANT TO SAVE THE PLANET, WE ARE NOT IN THAT BUSINESS.
WE ARE IN THE GAVE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY WHATEVER THEY WANT
BUSINESS BECAUSE THEY ARE OUR DONORS.
THIS IS ALSO WEEK OF A NUDGE, OF IF YOU KNOW WHAT IS GOOD
FOR YOU, MAKE SURE YOUR DEPARTMENT IS NOT DOING ANY
OF THIS REGULATION.
I THINK IT IS TOTALLY TRUE.
I THINK HAVING GOVERNMENT
OVERSIGHT WHEN IT COMES TO THESE PARTICULAR AGENCIES I THINK IT'S
REALLY IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF SETTING GUIDELINES.
I HAVE
BECOME REALLY INTERESTED IN THE CO2 THAT HAS PERMEATED OUR
ATMOSPHERE BECAUSE SOME SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT IT IS
ACTUALLY MAKING OUR FOOD LESS NUTRITIOUS SO I KNOW
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES PLAY A SMALL PART IN TERMS OF A LARGER
ECOSYSTEM BUT THIS IS PRETTY DISAPPOINTING.
ONE THING THAT WE DO KNOW ABOUT THE IMPACT THAT LIMIT
CHANGES ALREADY HAD ON OUR FOOD IS THAT IT HAS NEGATIVELY
IMPACTED
AGRICULTURE.
SCIENTISTS HAVE HAD TO TURN TO OTHER METHOD
METHODS OF GROWING OUR FOOD, SO GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD,
SPECIFICALLY GENETICALLY MODIFYING PLANTS IN ORDER TO
ENSURE THAT THEY CAN WITHSTAND HIGHER TEMPERATURES AND WHAT HAS
BEEN HAPPENING, BUT, RIGHT NOW WE ARE WORKING ON MITIGATING THE
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE BUT THINGS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE
GETTING WORSE WITH THE EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS.
IT REALLY
IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS.
ONCE OUR RESOURCES START RUNNING OUT AND PEOPLE BECOME
DESPERATE, WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN?
I AM AMUSED/ HORRIFIED AT THE IDEA, I KNOW THE PLAN IS MELTING
AND IT IS GETTING INCREDIBLY HOT BUT DON'T WORRY, WE WILL
GENETICALLY MODIFIED YOUR PLANTS AND THAT WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING.
ONE MORE THING IN THIS CASE IS HE SAYS DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT
THE CARBON IN THE AIR, WE JUST SET A RECORD FOR THE MOST CARBON
DIOXIDE IN THE AIR, WE SET IT EVERY YEAR, BUT NOW IT IS MORE
THAN WE HAVE EVER HAD ON THE PLANET IN THE LAST 800,000
YEARS.
AGAIN, ONCE THE ICE CAPS MELT AND THE METHANE WHICH IS
EVEN WORSE IN THE CARBON DIOXIDE GOES INTO THE AIR, WE CANNOT PUT
THEM BACK INTO THE ICE CAPS SO WE ARE GOING TO BE SCREW TO
START EVERY DAVID DONALD TRUMP IS AN OFFICE IN DOING THIS IS
THE DAY WE CANNOT RECOVER FROM.
JUST TO ADD TO THAT, I THINK IT IS REALLY INTERESTING TO
REALIZE HOW IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE CARBON DIOXIDE IS ACTUALLY
MAKING, BEYOND THE GM OSU, PLANTS CONSUME CARBON DIOXIDE SO
THE FACT THAT THESE CO2 CONCENTRATION IN THE AIR IS
INCREASING, IT IS CAUSING THE PLANS ACTUALLY TO GROW FASTER SO
WE ARE GETTING MORE VOLUME FROM HER FOOD BUT THE FOOD ITSELF IS
ACTUALLY BECOMING LESS NUTRITIOUS BECAUSE WHEN PLANTS
GROW FASTER THEY STORE MORE STARCH AND SUGAR AND LESS
PROTEIN AND MINERALS.
YOU LOOK AT THE SKYROCKETING RATES OF
OBESITY IN THIS COUNTRY WHICH ARE NO DOUBT RELATED TO THE EVER
INCREASING PRESENCE OF CHEAP, RAPIDLY DIGESTING CARBOHYDRATES
AND HER PHYSICAL AND YOU CAN SEE A DIRECT CONNECTION BETWEEN THE
CO2 THAT IS PERMEATING HER ATMOSPHERE NOW IN THIS
PROBLEM, IT IS ALSO INTERCONNECTED.
IT ALL IS INTERCONNECTED, I THINK A BIG PART OF THIS IS
IGNORANCE FROM THOSE IN POWER WHEN IT COMES TO GLOBAL WARNING
AND THAT ACTUALLY WILL PROBABLY TAKE US TO THE STORY THAT WE
WILL COME BACK WITH AFTER THE BREAK.
THERE WAS A REPUBLICAN
POLITICIAN WHO HAD A LUDICROUS THEORY ON THE RISING SEA LEVEL
SO STAY WITH US AFTER THE BREAK, WE ARE GOING TO TELL YOU ALL
ABOUT THAT.
BACK ON THE YOUNG TURKS.
WE WERE JUST TALKING OFF AIR ABOUT
HOW MAX WAS AT CURRENT TV RIGHT BEFORE WE WERE AT CURRENT TV AND
THEN OF COURSE, HE WAS ON THE POINT THAT ANA HOSTED FOR
A LONG TIME.
GOOD TO GET REUNITED IN A SENSE.
I AGREE, THIS IS AWESOME.
A COUPLE OF TWEETS FOR YOU GUYS.
"REMINDER THAT THE OBAMA REGULATION PROMOTED
FRACKING AND MADE IT A THING ACROSS THE GLOBE AND
APPROVED THE EQUIVALENT OF 10 KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE SAID.
HE WASN'T GOOD ON CLIMATE.
THOSE ARE ALL TRUE, BUT HE ALSO DID DO SOME GOOD THINGS ON
CLIMATE, ESPECIALLY NEAR THE END OF HIS SECOND TERM SO IT IS
DEFINITELY A MIXED BAG AND HE DID THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD SO
KEEPING IT REAL THAT YOU ALMOST NEVER HEAR ABOUT THE BAD THINGS
OBAMA DID AND HE DID DO THOSE THINGS, BUT HE ALSO DID DO SOME
GOOD THINGS ON THE ENVIRONMENT.
"CORPORATIONS ACT TO PROTECT THEIR SHORT-TERM PROFITS,
THE GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT US," AND THAT IS
EXACTLY RIGHT.