THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WAS COMMISSIONED BY A
BIPARTISAN EFFORT TO REVEAL EXACTLY HOW MUCH CLIMATE
CHANGE IS ALREADY COSTING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
NOW THIS WAS A STUDY THAT WAS REQUESTED BY BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC
AND REPUBLICAN SENATORS, SUSAN COLLINS BEING ONE OF THE
REPUBLICAN SENATORS WHO REALLY WANTED TO DIG INTO THIS AND
FIGURE OUT HOW MUCH THIS IS ALL COSTING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
WHILE THE GAO FOUND THE FOLLOWING:
THIS IS ALL STUFF THAT HAS BEEN IMPACTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE,
RIGHT?
SO THE EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS, GUEST, STORMS HAVE
ALWAYS HAPPENED BUT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS EXASPERATED THE
SITUATION.
CROPS ARE SUFFERING AND THEN ON THE WEST COAST, YOU ALSO HAVE
EXTREME DROUGHT THAT AGAIN, IS BEING EXACERBATED BY CLIMATE
CHANGE.
THE WILDFIRES HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF CONTROL.
THE EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF CONTROL AND
WE, AS US TAXPAYERS ARE ALREADY PAYING THE PRICE AS A RESULT.
THAT I FIGURE THAT WE JUST LOOKED AT,
$350 BILLION, DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RECENT STORMS THAT OCCURRED,
THE STORMS THAT OCCURRED IN TEXAS, FLORIDA, AND PUERTO RICO.
WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THE LAST DECADE OF EXTREME WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND HOW MUCH IT HAS COSTED THE US GOVERNMENT THAT
AND RAGING WILDFIRES FROM THIS YEAR ALSO NOT IN THIS
CALCULATION.
SOME OF THE HARDEST HIT PLACES OTHER RED STATES, SOUTHEAST IS
AT INCREASED RATIO OF COASTAL PROPERTY DAMAGE.
THE MIDWEST AND GREAT PLAINS ARE PARTICULARLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO
DECREASED CROP YIELDS WE KEEP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS WHO
DON'T BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE.
THE MAIN POINT I WANT TO MAKE IS THE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES SELL
A PRODUCT AND THEN THEY KEEP ALL OF THE PROFITS.
THAT MAKES SENSE, NIKE MAKE SHOES AND THEY KEEP THE PROFITS.
THAT IS LOGICAL.
I DON'T HAVE ANY BEEF WITH THAT.
BUT THERE IS A COST TO WHAT THEY DO AND THEY DO NOT WANT TO PAY
THAT COST.
WAIT, THAT'S NOT CAPITALISM.
THAT IS PRIVATIZING THE GAINS AND SOCIALIZING THE LOSSES.
SUPPORT OF THE LOST IN THE COSTS THAT ARE INVOLVED HERE ARE THE
ONES THAT WE ARE ALL PAYING.
YOUR TAXPAYERS KNOW MATTER WHAT YOUR POLITICS ARE, YOU PAY THAT
$350 BILLION.
THAT'S A NONPARTISAN LOOK AT WHAT IT COST US.
THE STORMS, THE SEVERITY OF THEM, ALL OF THE SEVENTH AS
YOU HAD TO PAY $350 BILLION IN YOUR POCKET.
CAREER POLITICS IS I JUST WANT TO ASK YOU, DID EXXON MOBIL SEND
YOU A CHECK.
BECAUSE I DIDN'T
GET ONE.
NO, THEY KEPT ALL THE PROFITS.
THOSE OIL COMPANIES ARE AMONG THE MOST PROFITABLE COMPANIES
IN THE WORLD.
AGAIN, I DO NOT BEGRUDGE THEM THAT IF THERE IS AN EXTRA COST
BUT THERE IS EXTRA COST AND WE BEAR IT, ALL OF US INCLUDING
UTAH
IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN THAT BECAUSE THIS BY ITSELF IS
HORRIFIC.
THIS IS TERRIBLE.
WE'RE GETTING ROBBED BLIND BY THESE OIL COMPANIES A STANDARD
PROFIT, BUT WHAT THEY ALSO GET IS HUGE SUBSIDIES FROM OUR
GOVERNMENT AND SO THEY GET REWARDED BY THE GOVERNMENT, THEY
DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT WHICH WE
SUFFER FROM AND THEN WE, AS YOU PERFECTLY MENTIONED HAVE TO
PAY, THROUGH TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO MITIGATE SOME OF THE DAMAGE
AND DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS AND
THESE WILDFIRES AND LOSSES OF CROPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND SO YEAH, THEY ARE WINNING IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE WHILE WE
ARE SUFFERING AND WE ARE PAYING THE COSTS OF THEIR RECKLESS
BEHAVIOR.
WOLFñPAC.COM.
YOU HAVE TO GET MONEY INTO POLITICS IT.
WE ARE GIVING THEM SUBSIDIES TO DESTROY THE PLANET.
WE HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THAT, WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT HER
DOLLAR COSTS BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ARE LIKE DESTROYING THE
PLANET, WHATEVER.
WHO CARES ABOUT MY KIDS.
IT'S NOT YOUR GRANDKIDS ANYMORE.
WE'RE KNEE-DEEP IN CLIMATE CHANGE.
ALL THESE STORMS AND FIRES ANOTHER COINCIDENCE.
THE INCREDIBLE TEMPERATURES.
THE HOTTEST 16 YEARS HAVE BEEN IN THE LAST 17 YEARS OF.
RECORD AFTER RECORD AFTER RECORD.
WHEN IT IS A GOING TO GET THROUGH YOUR HEAD.
YOU ARE PAYING THE COST OF DYING OF THE REPUBLICANS ONLY CARE
ABOUT MONEY SO I'M EXPANDING IT THAT WAY, BUT THEIR MELTING
THE PLANET.
HERE'S ANOTHER THING TO KEEP IN MIND I GUESS, OVERWHELMINGLY
REPUBLICANS WANT TO DENY CLIMATE CHANGE IF THEY SAID EXIST THEY
WILL SAY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HUMAN ACTIVITY HOWEVER, THINGS
ARE GETTING SO BAD THAT SOME REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE
LIKE, OH MY GOD.
MY CONSTITUENTS ARE REALLY SUFFERING.
I THINK IT IS TIME TO DO SOMETHING WHICH IS WHY THIS
WAS A BIPARTISAN EFFORT.
AGAIN, SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS WAS ONE OF THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS
WHO PUSHED FOR THE STUDY TO BE DONE.
LET'S LOOK INTO THE FUTURE.
WHAT IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN IF WE DON'T ACT IMMEDIATELY, WHICH
WE PROBABLY WON'T.
LET'S HEAR FROM SUSAN COLLINS.
SHE SAID
THE FOLLOWING:
YEAH, PEOPLE ARE STARTING
TO FEEL IT.
IT'S IRONIC THAT SHE MENTIONS THE ECONOMY AND JOBS BECAUSE
THE ARGUMENT WE HEAR TIME AND TIME AGAIN FROM THOSE ON THE
RIGHT IS, WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE THAT IS
GOING TO COST PEOPLE JOBS.
NO, NOT DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT IS GOING TO COST PEOPLE THEIR
LIVELIHOODS AND WE ARE ALREADY SEEING IT HAPPEN RIGHT NOW.
BY THE WAY THE NUMBERS THERE DON'T ADD UP, TO BE FAIR.
$350 BILLION WE SPEND THE LAST DECADE, THAT IS ARTIE 35
BILLION A YEAR.
YOU ARE IN CLIMATE CHANGE.
THEY SAY BY 2050 WE'RE GOING TO SPEND 35 BILLION A YEAR.
NO, WE JUST DID THAT IN THE LAST 10 YEARS.
YOU DO NOT NEED MY STUPID ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE AND YOU SEE
THE STORMS AND BESIDES WHICH, YOU SEE THE TEMPERATURES.
YOU SEE HARD EMPIRICAL DATA BUT I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, ON
TOP OF ALL THAT, IT HAS BEEN
HUNDRED DEGREES THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS IN WEST LA HERE.
WHEN I MOVED TO LA JUST 15 YEARS AGO AND NEVER GOT TO BE 100∞
IN WEST LA.
NOW, IN LATE OCTOBER, NOT IN THE VALLEY, NOT IN INLAND, IN WEST
LA NEAR THE WATER, IT IS 100∞ OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
WE ARE MELTING THE PLANET.
AND THERE IS NO SENSE OF EMERGENCY AND WHAT DOES TRUMP
SAY?
I THINK IT IS A HOAX BY THE CHINESE.
WE HAVE A MENTALLY DEFICIENT PERSON IN OFFICE.
WE HAVE TO GET HIM OUT AND WE HAVE TO SAVE WHATEVER WE CAN
SALVAGE OF THE PLANET.
WHEN THE ICE CAPS MELT AND THE METHANE IS RELEASED, IT GETS
WAY WORSE.
WE CANNOT UNDO IT.