We've already warmed one degree Celsius, and
do you know what's happened since then?
Here, let me tell you, we have had more food grown since then,
which feeds people, we are able to producing fossil fuels,
keeps people's houses warm in the winter that saves people's lives.
People die in the cold, this earth warming, and
carbon is actually healthy for us.
>> I know what you're thinking, wait John we've seen this video before.
Yes, it's nonsense, we know we've already discussed the ways that it's nonsense.
And you're right, it is nonsense.
But virtually every day in America, which exists on earth,
which is rapidly heating because we refuse to do anything about climate change.
There is yet more evidence that having someone in a position of power who
believes that a heating world is a good thing is really bad for us.
And I want to focus on the effect that this supposedly good heating has on one
particular community.
I want to focus on that today, and that is the UN housed because while we know that
people die from exposure to the weather, it shouldn't come as a surprise
that people who are exposed to more of the weather suffer more of the pain,
suffering and death.
And so while generally excessive heat causes more weather-related deaths in
the Us than Hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes combined, that results in
some 1500 deaths annually, half of those are estimated to be on health.
And of course we can't know because our nation
at large doesn't care much about this community, and
so scientific research doesn't generally track them nearly as well.
To put it in perspective just in the county that includes Phoenix,
at least 130 homeless people were among the 339 individuals who died from
heat associated causes just last year alone, 130 people in that one county.
Last summer, a heat wave blasted the normally temperate US Northwest and
had Seattle residents sleeping in their yards and on roofs or
fleeing to hotels with air conditioning across the state.
Several people presumed to be homeless died outdoors,
including a man slumped behind a gas station.
This is by the way, maybe some people are not surprised that this happens in
phoenix, but in the Pacific Northwest that people are literally just dying where they
sit outside because of the heat.
It doesn't need to be put in perspective how stupid what Marjorie Green said is
that people are dying virtually every day and we need to take it seriously,
Ida what do you think?
>> Yeah, they are for someone who had to sleep in a car with their two kids,
and be affected by what was happening in the environment,
it's just unbelievable to me sometimes how some of these people behave.
It is as if they have a secret, and
knowing that they are going to be immortal.
What I mean, they take for granted so many things, the greed,
and I guess they are immortal through there,
their legacy that their children, and what they leave behind.
But it's amazing to me how much we've taken this planet for granted, and
thinking that it's always going to be here.
But to hear, I'm exhausted with this woman, this is the third time
I've heard her today, and I just think wow, she is really part of the problem.
Remember if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
I feel sorry for the people who believe these things because
they're suffering the most, they are living in the places
whether it's a trailer park, a project or reservation,
whatever it is, where they house the most vulnerable and less.
The people who are struggling the most who actually have a place to live,
they're the ones that suffer the most.
I am so tired of hearing people deny climate change while
watch in real time the effects of climate change.
Those of us who come from these neighborhoods,
these marginalized neighborhoods who feel it the most, and don't know what to call
it because we don't even know what it is, it is just unbelievable.
And just like when we talk about abortion, and we talk about health care,
we talk about housing, we're always talking about the people who
are at the bottom as that gap widens between the haves and the have nots.
The have nots are always suffering at the hands of the haves all of these things and
this is no exception, and it is elderly people who don't have people caring for
them dying of heat stroke.
There's just a great number of people who are affected by this,
people who have who are compromised, have health issues.
My aunt has an autoimmune disease, she cannot be in this heat.
It's just unbelievable how much disconnected we've become
from humanity and each other that we will will sacrifice human life for
profit and gain and popularity.
It is unbelievable to me when I think about MJT,
we we know Herschel Walker has a mental illness.
He is self admittedly, declared that he has one, but
this is associated disorder disconnected from other people, and caring for
the people that you claim to care about is just it's unbelievable.
>> 100%, and not being remotely interested in the fact that this is going on, and
by the way that it's getting worse really fast.
Well, close by, I'm gonna jump ahead of graphic for an ap analysis last year of
a dataset published by Columbia University's Climate School found
exposure to extreme heat has tripled,
and now affects about a quarter of the world's population.
Heat related deaths increased by 74% from the eighties to just like six years ago,
and it's getting hotter and hotter.
This is going to get worse and worse and just think if you're watching this show,
there's a good chance that you already understand this.
Like you have politicians, you have governors of states, you have congress,
people who are obsessed with like stopping Disney from having a gay character.
1500 people a year are dying from the heat,
thinking you don't need to be religious to care about that.
But imagine if you claimed that like the core of your politics, and
who you are as a person was christianity, not giving a damn about so
many people needlessly dying and not doing whatever.
You can not resting until you've solved that problem or
gotten that number as low as possible, but they don't care,
they care about Drag Queen story hour, they care about stopping that.
They care about the grooming that they invented, that's what they care about.
But people literally dying from heat the least
among us who have been left behind by society and desperately need help.
There's no help coming, they don't care,
they just don't care if they don't even acknowledge it.
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