in order to address the environmental
crisis we
are going to have to spend some time
fixing the democracy crisis
because big money has so much influence
now our democracy has been hacked
large contributors
call the shots have you ever thought
about running for office again
uh i am a i've used this line before so
forgive me
but i am a recovering politician
and the longer i go without a relapse
the the less likely one becomes
so i just wanted to say probably do sort
of three buckets of stuff
right so there's one of them climbing
yes
one ends climate one of them sort of
broadly like how politics are
different now than they were say 15
years ago sure citizens united
me i'm i'm interested to hear your
thoughts okay and then some 2016 stuff
oh okay i'm not gonna you can decline
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but we will talk about climate yeah yeah
i gotta feed the beast
mr vice president
sometimes it seems to me that the
climate crisis is simply not
getting the kind of coverage in the
media that it should
uh you have a republican party right now
historically large field
right there's no one on climate in the
entire
lineup yeah since when did the united
states
abandon its traditional world leadership
role
especially at a time when just this past
week
the president of china says okay we're
going to adopt a
cap and trade program and we're reducing
our co2
emissions and we want to create jobs in
solar and wind and efficiency
this is the the most serious global
challenge we
we've ever faced no other country can
play the role that the us
can play
you