MACRON CONTINUES TO
STRIVE TO MAKE OUR PLANET GREAT AGAIN.
AND SCIENTISTS ARE
FLEEING TO FRANCE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. 6 OF THE 14 SCIENTISTS
ELECTED FROM MACRON'S INITIATIVE ARE FROM THE US AND
WILL EACH RECEIVE AT LEAST $600,000 TO RESEARCH VARIOUS
DIFFERENCE CLIMATE PROJECTS.
YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK HERE I MACRON SPEAKING ABOUT THE
INITIATIVE AND MAYBE SOME REASON AS TO WHY DECIDED TO LAUNCH IT.
I CALLED THEM, COME AND WORK HERE WITH US.
I REAFFIRM
CLEARLY THAT THE FIRST AGREEMENT REMAINS IRREVERSIBLE AND WILL BE
IMPLEMENTED.
NOT JUST BY FRANCE, BUT BY ALL OF THE OTHER NATIONS.
WE WILL SUCCEED.
BECAUSE WE ARE FULLY COMMITTED.
BECAUSE
WHEREVER WE LIVE, WHOEVER WE ARE, WE ALL SHARE THE SAME
RESPONSIBILITY.
MAKE OUR PLANET GREAT AGAIN.
THAT IS A BROADSIDE AT TRUMP.
I THINK IT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH TRUMP PULLING OUT OF THE
PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENTS AND THAT CHEEKY NAME MAKES IT PRETTY
OBVIOUS THAT HE IS RESPONDING HERE TO POLICIES THAT HE
DISAGREES WITH.
I SHOULD SAY THAT THIS WAS LAUNCHED BACK IN
DECEMBER AND THERE WERE 18 SCIENTISTS ELECTED THEN, 13 OF
THOSE SCIENTISTS WERE ALSO AMERICAN SO THIS I THINK IS
GREAT IN THAT WE HAVE COUNTRIES THAT ARE SUPPORTING CLIMATE
RESEARCH AND ARE LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE TO PROTECT OUR
PLANET, BUT I AM REALLY SAD TO SAY THAT I THINK FOR THE US IT
MEANS WE ARE EXPERIENCING A BRAIN DRAIN.
WE HAVE SCIENTISTS
WHO NO LONGER ABLE TO EASILY GET GRANTS AND FUNDING FOR THEIR
RESEARCH.
THEY ARE NOT BEING BACKED BY CURRENT POLICIES IN
THE GOVERNMENT AND THERE ARE OTHER POLICIES THAT ARE ALSO
KEEPING PEOPLE FROM DOING RESEARCH HERE IN THE US.
THERE
IS A LOT OF IMMIGRATION POLICIES THAT REQUIRE THAT AFTER PEOPLE
GET A GREAT AMERICAN EDUCATION HERE AT SOME OF OUR TOP
UNIVERSITIES, THEY ARE THEN ASKED TO GO BACK TO THEIR HOME
COUNTRIES AND NOT ALLOWED TO STAY AND GIVE BACK ONCE THEY
HAVE COMPLETED THEIR DEGREE, SO IT IS GREAT THAT IT IS
HAPPENING SOMEWHERE AND I AM HAPPY IT IS HAPPENING IN FRANCE.
I WISH IT WERE HAPPENING HERE HOME AS WELL.
IT IS GREAT THAT IT IS HAPPENING SOMEWHERE AND IT IS
GREAT THAT HE IS UNDERSCORING THE WAY HE IS THAT IT IS NOT
HAPPENING HERE.
HE IS ADDRESSING AN AMERICAN AUDIENCE.
I THINK IN PART HE IS SPEAKING ENGLISH AND BY THE WAY, I ALWAYS
THOUGHT THE BRITISH ACCENT WAS THE BEST WAY TO SPEAK ENGLISH,
BUT NOW I THINK THAT FRENCH ACCENT HISTORY POWERFUL 2.
HE
IS QUITE COMPELLING IN HIS REMARKS.
OF COURSE, YOU ARE
RIGHT.
THERE IS A BRAIN DRAIN.
MORE AND MORE SCIENTISTS ARE
FINDING THERE IS NO FEDERAL FUNDING HERE.
THEY'RE HAVING TO
GO OVERSEAS.
YOU SAW A BUNCH OF SCIENTISTS LEAD THE EPA.
YOU HAVE SEEN SCIENTISTS LEAD THE CDC.
THESE ARE ORGANIZATIONS THAT AREN'T SUPPORTING
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ANY LONGER SO SCIENTISTS AND MINDS THAT ARE
ASSOCIATED WITH SO MUCH RESEARCH OR HAVING TO GO ELSEWHERE.
YEAH, IT IS ALSO, I WANT TO HIT THE POINT.
IT IS OUR
IMMIGRATION POLICIES THAT ARE PREVENTING PEOPLE WHO ARE
TRAINED IN OTHER COUNTRIES WHO BEFORE USED TO COME HERE AND BE
PART OF THE RESEARCH AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE, IN THE SCIENCES
AS WELL.
TO BE HONEST, THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS OUTSIDE OF
THIS COUNTRY WHO ARE TRAINED AROUND THE SCIENTISTS MUCH
BETTER THAN WE ARE BECAUSE THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL GOVERNMENT
FUNDING SO THERE IS THAT ALSO.
IT IS NOT JUST THE IMPULSE TO GO
TO ANOTHER COUNTRY, BUT WHO IS COMING INTO OUR COUNTRY AS WELL.
WE ARE BANNING THAT AND OF COURSE THERE IS THE MUSLIM
BANDAS WELL, THE GREAT PREVENTATIVE AROUND THAT.
I
LOVE TO HEAR THIS FROM FRANCE, EXCEPT, WELL YOU GOT A LIE.
HE
SAYS FRANCE HAS ALWAYS LED FIGHTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
CLUSTER AT THE SAME TIME YOU ARE COLONIZING WEST AFRICA.
PLEASE, JUST TELLS WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
DON'T HAD ON THAT LAYER OF PATRIOTISM WHICH IS
UNNECESSARY BECAUSE THE FRENCH ARE REALLY OBSESSED WITH
BEING CULTURAL HEROES.
MAYBE HE FEELS LIKE A, I AM SPENDING MORE THAN HALF 1
MILLION PER RESEARCHER HERE.
I CAN THROW IN SOME MARKETING FOR MY COUNTRY.
YEAH, BUT THERE IS ALSO PROBABLY OMISSIONS ISSUES THAT
THEY HAS TO DEAL WITH INTERNALLY.
THIS IS A WHOLE
TYPE OF CONVERSATION AND I AM NOT CRAZY ABOUT MAKE OUR PLANET
GREAT AGAIN EITHER BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
WAS A LINE THAT STRANGELY ENOUGH CAME FROM A KNOCK TODAY VIA
LETTER NOVEL AND WAS THE SLOGAN FOR A FASCIST LEADER.
RONALD REAGAN USED IT FIRST TO DUCK.
THAT IS RIGHT.
SHE DID TAKE IT FROM THAT.
BUT YEAH, YOUR POINT IS WELL TAKEN.
I THOUGHT HE WAS SKEWERING TRUMP WITHOUT LINE.
THAT WAS THE REASON HE USED IT.
I THINK SLOGANS LIKE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, MAKE OUR
PLANET GREAT AGAIN, THEY GATHER DIFFERENT ITERATIONS AND HAVE
DIFFERENT MEANINGS.
WE NEED TO PUT THEM IN CONTEXT.
I THINK
WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT HERE IS THAT HE IS TAKING A SLOGAN THAT
MEANS ALMOST EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF ITS ORIGINAL MEANING
AND RE-APPROPRIATING AIDING IS SAYING, LET'S NOT FOCUS ON
WHO WE ARE AS A COUNTRY AND BE BLINDED TO THE REST OF THE
WORLD, BUT TAKE A MORE HOLISTIC APPROACH TO POLICY AND
THINK ABOUT OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEING, NOT JUST OUR FELLOW
CITIZENS.