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may I just say to all delegates I
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apologize for the way this process has
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unfolded I'm deeply sorry this is the
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president of cop26 welling up with tears
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as he closes negotiations on our last
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potential chance to avert climate
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catastrophe
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because of people like this a highly
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paid network of politicians lobbyists
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and investors conspiring from the
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Shadows to block climate action
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sacrificing Humanity itself for
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short-term profit
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these people are the biggest threat to
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our planet right now and they're winning
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Mr Pink knows how they greenwash your
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money Mr White knows how they buy your
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politicians Miss blue knows how they
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steal your elections and Miss Black
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knows how they sue the out of your
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government they've agreed to reveal to
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us how these dark arts work this green
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marketing is intended to trick all of us
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they took them out in a five-star hotel
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is maybe an expensive hound dog with
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caviar as you become victimless
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harassment because I used more dirty
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shoes the cowboy doesn't have as much
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access to this information because the
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scale of power of all steel companies
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exists in every part of your life
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foreign
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spell the end of our Survival on this
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plan
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I was the chief investment officer for
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sustainable investing at BlackRock the
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world's largest asset manager that now
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has around 10 trillion dollars under
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management that's trillions with a t you
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could say that it's the company that
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controls the world
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BlackRock owns fossil fuel reserves
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equivalent to nearly 10 trillion
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gigatons of carbon related emission if
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you were to use that all in one year
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that would be 30 of the total emissions
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in 2017. having LED what was called the
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largest and the most ambitious effort
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ever to turn Wall Street Green
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I can tell you that the vast majority of
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his marketing and it doesn't work and
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it's wasting our time
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I'm a member of the European Parliament
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so I vote on all legislation in the
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European Union the most important
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decisions in a way are taken here in
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Brussels in the European Parliament from
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regulating engines for cars to emissions
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trading how power plants are regulated
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in the European Union
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for decades the fossil fuel industry has
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done everything to Lobby to confuse the
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scientific debate to cast doubt about
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what they knew that the climate change
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exists it's man-made and it's going to
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heat the planet in a way that is
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threatening our existence on it and this
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is the result of a constant onslaught of
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Lobby
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I am an elected state representative in
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the United States I was very shocked to
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find out as I was on the campaign trail
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that most elected officials Democrats
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and Republicans and those running for
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office take tens and thousands of
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dollars from philosophical companies and
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they do it without any type of regret or
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remorse
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I was the heart of Energy Efficiency
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unit located in bosses I worked on the
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Indian DeSoto treaty which protects
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foreign investment in fossil fuels by
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means of private arbitration where
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companies can ask for billions of tools
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of compensation if the climate policy
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impacts your profit
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these whistleblowers come from the world
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of the white collar Elite where the soft
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edge of polluting power tries to
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convince us that rather than damaging
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the planet fossil fuel companies are
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actually the ones trying to save it
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we found out the fossil fuel industry
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was causing global warming in the 80s
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oil and gas companies who had secretly
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known this for decades began to act
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differently they began trying to
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convince us that they were good for
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society just good for you good for us
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and good for the future of Britain they
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even started to claim that they were
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Protectors of the environment if we told
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you that a certain Oil Company wanted to
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push a pipeline through this lovely
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Welsh Valley sending bulldozers into the
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snowdonia National Park
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would probably quite rightly be very
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alarm this is the valley after not
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before shell laid its pipeline you could
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be sure of shell
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but can you several years after this
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commercial was released 150 tons of oil
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leaked from another shell pipeline
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nearby killing scores of local wildlife
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Shell's reputation for conservation
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meant that the judge let them off with a
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low fine
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green washing had begun and as energy
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companies lulled our concerns with this
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public illusion secretly they began to
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infiltrate governments courts and banks
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to ensure that society would always be
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powerless to stop the oil
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our whistleblowers are going to tell us
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how this new reality was invented
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the divestment movement has been one of
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the most powerful tools in the fight
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against climate change by encouraging
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investors to move their money out of oil
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and gas and turn their investment
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portfolios green
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but who moves the money around
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where does it go my job entailed going
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across all of our investment processes
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across the firm for 10 trillion dollars
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of investing
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and to make sure that these investment
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processes were taking into consideration
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environmental and social factors
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sometimes called ESG or environmental
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social and corporate governance factors
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to make sure that we're investing as
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responsibly as possible while still
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serving our client interests of
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maximizing the return on their
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Investments the the people in charge of
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managing investment portfolios like
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BlackRock couldn't risk losing money by
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moving Investments out of the insanely
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profitable fossil fuel trade and into
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Greener companies so they had to come up
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with a plan they created a new kind of
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sustainable investment product called an
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ESG fund which stands for environmental
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social and corporate governance
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the best way to think about it is that
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this is the biggest and the most
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large-scale effort ever to turn Wall
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Street Green but it's all a carefully
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crafted illusion I started to realize
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that none of it made me sense so every
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single time we would have a choice we
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have to focus on either making money or
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making the world a better place and the
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reality is while we were taught in the
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world that you could do both at the same
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time the reality is that most of that
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was just marketing to get people to feel
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better about what we're doing they're
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just moving money around behind the
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scenes these ESG funds still contain
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fossil fuel investments in fact other
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than the new ESG label they're almost
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identical on Wall Street at large is
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these are not an opportunity to then
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exploit the growing social angst about
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the fact that nothing is getting done by
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selling a bunch of
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disingenuous investment products to the
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market that create the impression that
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they're doing something about it when
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instructors just an opportunity to get
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more fees out of people and because no
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one actually is regulating what it means
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to be green there is no evidence that
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any of these things lower emissions or
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create any kind of impact
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BlackRock became acutely aware of
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negative public opinion when protesters
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stormed their offices in Paris but their
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solution was to Simply say that their
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Investments were green and they did that
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by changing the very definition of green
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itself if you go to the grocery store
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and you see two apples under the exact
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same in every way but one of them has an
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organic sticker most people will pick
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the one that's organic governments could
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easily solve this by regulating what
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counts as a green investment but not
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only are they failing to do that they're
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actually going in the opposite direction
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while oil and coal are the traditional
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bogeymen of climate change natural gas
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also accounts for 8 billion tons of CO2
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a year and 40 million tons of methane
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which traps 120 times more heat than CO2
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but the fossil fuel companies are now
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waging a secret War to classify gas as a
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green investment so the European Union
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is about to get legislation that would
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classify natural gas as green and
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investment in natural gas as green
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investment that might well spell the the
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end of of climate friendly investment
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and thereby really make our efforts to
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stop climate change to respect the 125
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degree Target so much more difficult and
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and they're both threatened our Survival
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on this planet and this is the result of
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a constant onslaught of Lobby
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this hidden campaign to Rebrand gas as a
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clean energy has coincided with a public
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psyops campaign to trick us
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wherever you look it seems that
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companies like Chevron may have snuck
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gas stoves into their ads we know it's
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going to take many forms of energy to
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meet the world's needs while creating a
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cleaner future for all they're hiring
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very well known and established
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influencers to pump gas into their Vans
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or use a natural gas stove these are all
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different tactics that they're putting
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into place to now go after young people
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to go after a generation of people that
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are probably the most aggressive in
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tackling climate change and essentially
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brainwashed this generation of people
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which is something they've been doing
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for a very long time trying to influence
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folks to use their products don't miss a
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bunch of adventurous people going
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head-to-head in the most amazing lower
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CO2 emissions road trip watch it now at
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youtube.com shell you see fossil
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companies trying to trick the American
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public and and maintain their dominance
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through controlling almost every part of
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Society they not only pay into some of
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these media websites but they even
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create their own to basically serve as a
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fake website that can share their
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propaganda and also smear whoever they
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want to smear
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but how did the fossil fuel Lobby
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convince our governments to classify gas
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as a green investment the first method
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they use is outright bribery we have
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seen examples in in the past that
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countries that have a huge share of of
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social Industries Azerbaijan for example
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that has long-standing interest to sell
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their gas to sell their oil to to Europe
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they have bribed politicians they have
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invited them on trips for example to
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Azerbaijan first class flights five-star
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hotels they find gift baskets with
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caviar or expensive handbags or whatever
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in their in their hotel rooms will have
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cases on camera where members have
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accepted bribes from undercover
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investigative journalists for some
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European MEPS the planet itself is worth
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less than the price of a Louis Vuitton
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handbag for those who want more money a
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second method comes into play the
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revolving door where politicians are
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offered a job upon leaving office if
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they pull a few favors the easiest thing
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in a way to to buy politicians is to
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offer them a job in the future
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in in the European commission after
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leaving office more than 50 percent of
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of the Commissioners are joining
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different Lobby organizations the former
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German Chancellor Godzilla is probably
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the biggest example of of such a
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revolving door into the fossil fuel
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industry
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in office
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green lid attack lawn and then after
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leaving office joined the oversight
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board for that tripod so he was brought
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up by Vladimir Putin by the it's a
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Russian state-controlled Energy company
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that's from the third method they used
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is astroturfing where they set up front
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organizations fake professorships and
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fake industry organizations to convince
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politicians that A Chorus of people all
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want them to classify gas as green even
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if you're trying to talk to all sides of
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the argument and get well informed and
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then you maybe speak to a professor then
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you speak to an industry Association
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speak to a couple of companies and
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you're hearing the same argument time
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and again and you think for everyone
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agrees on that so that must be the right
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thing to do for the law that that I'll
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have to vote on not realizing that
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actually you only ever talked to to the
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same fossil fuel companies time and
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again just two different organizations
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that they fund that they control
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the fossil fuel industry has even
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started using an election manipulation
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technique where they siphon votes away
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from climate activist politicians by
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paying random people with the same name
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as them to run on the same ballot and we
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actually saw this same situation in two
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other Florida State Senate research
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where there was a fake candidate that
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was filed in that election to basically
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pull votes away from Democrats because
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that candidate was advertised as being
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Progressive this has been referred to as
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the ghost candidate scheme or the fake
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candidate scheme and it really is one of
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the most egregious examples of political
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corruption
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by rebranding itself financially legally
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and in the Public Image the oil and gas
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industry is weathering the tide of
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climate legislation
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even when that strategy fails they have
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one final secret weapon at their
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disposal an obscure agreement from the
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90s called the energy Charter treaty
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gives fossil fuel companies the power to
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sue foreign governments for billions if
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they change any law that affects their
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Investments
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cases are hidden from the public in
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so-called Shadow courts the second any
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government comes up with climate
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legislation corporate lawyers appear
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from the Shadows
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so what is climate orbitration it is a
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Central Court its parallel system to all
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Justice System a shadow Court can
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you lawyers
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as arbitrator the other two represent
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either the country or the energy firm
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but they rotate jobs earning millions in
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the process
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146 cases to go these are the name cases
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it is likely that there are more faces
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that we don't know because under the
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United chapter 13 there is no obligation
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for the investor notebook for the
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government according to see to make the
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case known When Miss Black raised the
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alarm about these shadow courts to her
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colleagues she was bullied into
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submission by fossil fuel lobbyists who
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had secretly infiltrated the energy
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Charter treaty Secretariat where they
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worked it was unbelievable to be in
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Brussels the capital of Europe in 2018
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and to the arrest and I was wondering
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why this guy was reacting so deadly and
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in February I think 2020 found out who
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works for full size fuel company while
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he was at the same time Secretariat
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what this means is that no matter how
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loud you protest no matter who you elect
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and no matter how robust International
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Agreements are ultimately it will all be
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blocked by three corporate lawyers in a
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room
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and they're committed to net zero
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emissions by 2050.
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becoming a net zero emissions energy
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business by 2050 instead of his Society
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nice words you say but what does it
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actually mean for starters it would mean
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not conducting a shadow War to prevent
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Net Zero the truth is that global
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warming isn't your fault in fact just
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100 companies are responsible for 71 of
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global emissions
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they're willing to manipulate every
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aspect of reality to hide that
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across the world there's a sense that
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we're finally divesting from fossil
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fuels our governments are finally
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investing in green energy
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finally there are new laws being passed
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to protect our climate
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I realized that all three of those
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things are just carefully woven
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Illusions it may already be too late
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