Marty in Encinitas California a Marty what's up hey Tom
thanks for letting me follow arm and again sure
I'm crying right now and I'm gonna keep it together I'm
I've gone 24 California wildfires different a bit different on this one is
called
caused by climate change I
california's burning yeah and the East Coast
is drowning and I'm still hearing people tell me that
climate change the whole I'd like some words what
do you say when in spite of
every obvious fact
people don't wanna believe what do I say
well I would say the
you you listen to scientists if they'd if
the scientists happens to your doctor who tells you that you have cancer heart
disease you'd listen to that wouldn't you
you would listen to a a
you know somebody who understand science if it was that your lawn electricity in
your house telling you that
that you know your electric panel was gonna burst into flames if he didn't
replace some other breakers
um you know in every he
we listen the scientists you know in in the hollow all the various pieces of our
car that all work together because various laws of physics
they get their computer the telephone the kill the the
the television I mean all these things are based on science
we don't challenge any %uh that science why are we selectively challenge in the
science
that says the burning fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of our planet
and please let me inform you that there is any reason
is the same reason that back in the nineteen eighties
there were people challenge in the science it said that smoking causes
cancer
and it's because the smokin industry the tobacco industry
was passing out hundreds of millions of dollars over years over decades
tens of millions of dollars millions dollars a year to so-called scientists
and think tanks and spokespeople
to go out and say well you know it's it's still a debate about whether
smoking causes cancer or not
and eventually
the science became so overwhelming and the consensus was so great in it even
went to court
that basically I mean you know it here's the good news:
at libya think that the name was a a
the good news is I'm sitting here in washington DC
and twenty years ago in this city the most powerful lobby the 1 lob you didn't
want to mess with the the most
lobby the takedown any politician was but tobacco industry
with the tobacco lobby tobacco lobbyist said so much power in this
City 20-25 years ago it was mind boggling
nobody challenged them and then might happen Tony on a bunch by the good
lawyers
got up and said okay we're going to take these guys on and took them down
and now the tobacco lobby in in
know washington DC is one of the week is lobbies there is the same thing
that same are you know more a Martin Luther King that the moral
Arkham above the universe's is longer a real
but it curves towards justice that arc
it its taking longer than it should
I agree but it is curving toward
awakening and as more more extreme weather events happen
you know kit please to despair is not an option despair is not a useful a motion
take that emotion you're feeling and converter in activism
find a group that's working on Climate Change that you can throw some time or
energy into that you can make some phone calls on behalf of the you can send out
some emails for
you can leaflet for you can do some lobbying for the hit you know whatever
become an activist and you will discover that
that despair which can be paralyzing
is turned into action that can actually help save the world
this is what we all need to do help I'd also like I'm
I'm to a lecturing RB pollyannish but
this is the the reality is that every time we have confronted major crises
whether it was scientific crises like you know tobacco killing people
or and and you know there being a debate about it
or whether it's you know the crisis have love
the Jim Crow laws were you know women being totally disenfranchised
or AIM pick your poison right in every single case
there were some people who are in despair cried about it were so
you know and I'm and I'm not saying that that's not out appropriate response
in in as a first response this is kinda the five stages avg
have but death in Greeley know that Elizabeth kubler-ross talk taught us
about
in the first year as the shock is this despair
go from there into
anger and then response
what is it that Mahatma Gandhi is to say
first they ignore you then they ridicule you
then they fight you then you win
the fossil fuel industry used to ignore us they stopped doing
then they would start to rate killing assay now there's a debate about the
sides as does his thing about the science
that is not working anymore Los Angeles Times won't even publish things from
climate deniers any longer
starting to be viewed like Holocaust deniers
so that then they ridicule you is not working so much so then they fight you
now you've actually got people out there said how carbon dioxide is good
and will be rice age was bright now and then a plants needed
that's wonderful they're gonna lose
because they're on the wrong side sites are on the wrong side of history
so this is actually all good news and it should inspire you
an issue each get your active please