RECENTLY SCOTT PRUITT WAS SPEAKING TO LOCAL REPORTERS IN
LAS VEGAS ABOUT THE ISSUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
AS WE KNOW,
PRUITT IS THE HEAD OF THE EPA AND UNFORTUNATELY DOESN'T
BELIEVE CLIMATE CHANGE POSES A RISK TO HUMANITY.
SO WHEN HE WAS
ASKED ABOUT THOSE CONTROVERSIAL VIEWS HERE IS WHAT HE HAD TO
SAY.
KEEP IN MIND, BY THE WAY, THAT PRUITT USED TO DENY THAT
CLIMATE CHANGE EXISTED, HE USED TO DENY THAT CLIMATE CHANGE WAS
CAUSED BY HUMAN BEHAVIOR.
BUT HE'S CHANGING HIS TUNE, HE'S
PIVOTING TO A DIFFERENT TALKING POINT THAT I WANT YOU TO PAY
CLOSE ATTENTION TO.
HE SAID --
OKAY --
OKAY.
I DON'T KNOW WHICH PERIOD OF TIME HE'S REFERRING
TO, WHEN TEMPERATURES INCREASED TO THE POINT WHERE YOU HAVE ICE
CAPS MELTING, SEA LEVELS RISING, EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS
HAPPENING, EXTREME DROUGHT IMPACTING CERTAIN PARTS OR
REGIONS OF THE WORLD INCLUDING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BY THE WAY,
WHICH LEADS TO EXTREME WILDFIRE SEASONS.
HE DOESN'T KNOW EITHER.
HE DOESN'T THIS IS HIS PRO-OIL INDUSTRY TALKING POINT B.S.
THAT
IS INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE
FACT THAT THE EPA STILL, UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP, DOES BELIEVE
THAT CLIMATE CHANGE POSES A RISK.
THE PENTAGON BELIEVES THAT
CLIMATE CHANGE WILL BE A NATIONAL SECURITY NIGHTMARE
BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT AGRICULTURE IS MORE DIFFICULT TO
GROW.
THERE IS FOOD INSECURITY THAT HAS BEEN EXACERBATED BY
CLIMATE CHANGE.
THIS GUY IS AN ABSOLUTE CLOWN AND AGAIN, PREVIOUSLY, HE
DENIED THAT THE CLIMATE WAS WARMING.
PREVIOUSLY HE WAS LIKE, I DO NOT KNOW, THIS IS NOT HAPPENING
AT ALL AND NOW ALL THE SUDDEN HE IS LIKE, MAYBE IT IS HAPPENING
BUT IT ISN'T A KIND OF A GOOD THING WHEN IT IS HOT OUTSIDE?
>THAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT, I HAD NOT THOUGHT OF THAT BUT IT IS
KIND
OF A VALLEY GIRL THING TO SAY FROM AN UNVALLEY GIRL GUY.
THERE ARE WARS THAT ARE GOING TO BE FOUGHT OVER THIS.
THE VANISHING NATURAL RESOURCES, THE AGRICULTURE
BELTS ARE CHANGING WHERE THEY ARE ON THE GLOBE.
WATER IS GOING TO BE A HUGE ISSUE.
THIS IS A VANISHING RESOURCE, WE ARE SEEING IT PLAY OUT IN
SOUTH
AFRICA NOW AND WARS ALREADY, BACKDOOR WARS ARE ALREADY
BEING FOUGHT OVER THIS.
THAT IS, THERE IS ARMED CONFLICT OVER WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES
SO HE CAN STICK HIS HEAD IN THE EVER DRYING SAND ALL HE
WANTS TO BUT THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT IS HITTING THEM RIGHT
IN THE FACE.
MEANTIME, UNDER THIS GUY'S ADMINISTRATION, THE EPA,
THEY ARE DISMANTLING HIS AGENCY OF COURSE.
HE IS SEEING TO THE FACT THAT THE REGULATIONS, MINIMAL THOUGH
THEY WERE, ARE BEING LIFTED ON EVERYTHING FROM OIL
DRILLING TO MINERAL EXPLOITATION IN OUR NATIONAL PARKS SO THIS
GUY IS ABYSMAL AND EVIL AND HAS A CABINET THAT IS THE SAME.
HE IS GETTING HELP FROM THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT AND
FROM ALL OF TRUMP'S CABINET.
BUT HIS DENIAL OF THIS IS INSANE.
IT IS.
THE REALITY IS, HE HAS CERTAIN CORPORATE INTERESTS IN MIND.
DURING THIS VERY INTERVIEW HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT FOSSIL FUELS
AND ESSENTIALLY DEFENDED THEM, SO WE KNOW WHO HE IS
SUPPORTIVE OF, WHICH CORPORATIONS HE IS
SUPPORTIVE OF, EVEN IF IT MEANS SACRIFICING THE WELL-BEING
OF HUMANS IN GENERAL IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE
CORPORATIONS AND OIL COMPANIES TURN A PROFIT.
ONE LAST THING REAL QUICK, EVEN APART FROM THE CLIMATE
CHANGE,
THE AMOUNT OF POLLUTION AND THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENT POLLUTANTS
THAT HE IS ALLOWING TO NOW ENTER THE WATER SUPPLY AND INTO
LANDFILLS AND ALL OF THE OTHER WAYS THAT THOSE POLLUTANTS GET
INTO AIR, ETC., NOW IT IS OFF THE CHART.
IF YOU LOOK AT HOW HE HAS UNDONE THOSE REGULATIONS, LEAVE
ASIDE CLIMATE CHANGE.
POLLUTANTS THEMSELVES ARE AS I SAY JUST OFF THE SCALE IN
THE ENVIRONMENT UNDER HIS ORGANIZATION.