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good evening and welcome to tucker
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carlson tonight imagine you went to
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school with sandy cortez a lot of people
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did imagine it's 2011
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and you're both students at boston
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university and not quite prestigious but
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highly expensive school for kids who
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couldn't get into tufts you know who
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sandy cortez is because three days a
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week at 12 20 you see her in your
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philosophy of gender and sexuality class
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she's always there in the front row
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snapping her gum
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and then like clockwork she never misses
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your queer theory seminar which meets
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every thursday at 3 30 p.m because if
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there's one thing about queer theory
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scholars they're not early risers
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sandy goes to both and she talks a lot
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in both classes she jumps into the
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conversation whenever she feels she has
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something important to say which is
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frequently
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she's hardly a genius but she is highly
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self-assured she's got strong opinions
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about racism and cosmetics
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she seems to spend a lot of time
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updating her facebook page those are the
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main things that you remember about
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sandy cortez
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now fast forward 10 years
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suddenly sandy cortez is a world famous
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figure somehow
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she's calling herself
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alexandria ocasio-cortez
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some kind of female che westchester
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county's first socialist revolutionary
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and she's still yammering on about
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racism and eye shadow her twin
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obsessions and she's still frantically
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updating her social media pages some
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things have not changed
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but other things have changed
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one night you're watching tv and you see
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sandy cortez talking authoritatively
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about america's energy grid like she
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knows a lot about it and that stops you
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in your tracks
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wait a second the energy grid that's an
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adult thing right that's not queer
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theory that's real that's a very
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complicated piece of infrastructure even
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a lot of engineers don't really
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understand how the energy grid works
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how could sandy cortez possibly know
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anything about that
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she can't drive a standard transmission
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she can't program a coffee maker she
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doesn't even make her own bed in the
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morning
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the energy grid please
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it seems preposterous so you grab a beer
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and you settle in to watch or talk about
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it
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and your jaw hangs open as you do
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here's what you see
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we know that there is no such thing
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as cheap energy
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because the price
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of cheap energy
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has always been our lives the trampling
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of indigenous rights is a cause of
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climate change the the trampling of
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racial justice is a cause of climate
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change we're like
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the world is going to end in 12 years if
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we don't address climate change and your
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biggest issue
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is
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your your biggest issue is how are we
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gonna pay for it and
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like this is the war this is our world
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war ii the fossil fuel industry
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and the future of humanity are
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fundamentally incompatible
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they just are i mean that's not a
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political opinion that is the science we
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continue to burn fossil fuels
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our planet will become inhabitable
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really
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energy how's energy generated do you
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know what's a watt what's amperage speak
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slowly we've got time
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but she doesn't instead shows the fossil
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fuel industry and the future of humanity
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are fundamentally incompatible they just
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are i mean that's not a political
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opinion that's the science
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of course it is that's the science
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whatever i say is the science there's no
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debate here obey
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but that's not how democracy works thank
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god you actually have to convince people
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and so she tried she introduced the
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green new deal three years ago
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and didn't go far in fact it went
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nowhere in fact virtually nobody in
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congress supported it in fact when it
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came time for a vote on the green new
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deal
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even
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her co-sponsor the other guy who wrote
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it the super awoke senator from
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massachusetts voted present not in favor
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now why is that why did nobody actually
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support it
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well because if you think cow flatulence
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is even in the top 200 top issues for
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most americans
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you're sandy cortez
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go back to queer theory class
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get rid of fossil fuels yeah what then
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well starvation poverty societal
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collapse voters returns that are not
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into any of those things and so nothing
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that resembles the green new deal is
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going to pass the united states congress
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in our lifetimes provided this remains
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an actual democracy which is to say
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provided the public has anything to say
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about how they're governed
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that's a non-starter here it's never
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going to happen by democratic means but
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that doesn't mean it can't happen
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it doesn't mean that ideologues can't
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impose the green new deal on weaker
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countries that are too poor to refuse it
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and over the past several years that's
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exactly what they've done
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so the green ideal has actually taken
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effect around the world so we don't have
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to guess about what would happen if it
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took effect here we can know
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that's
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science let's start with ghana ghana is
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a pretty little country peaceful place
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actually on the west coast of africa
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three years ago ghana was in great shape
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it had one of the fastest growing
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economies in the world in fact it had so
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much energy over most of the last decade
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it was exporting it to its neighbors in
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west africa
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now those energy exports from ghana
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peaked in 2014.
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why that year well because the next year
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the world bank published this headline
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on its website quote world bank approves
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largest ever guarantees for ghana's
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energy transformation
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when they promise to transform your
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energy
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slow down but ghana didn't slow down
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they just kept going the world bank
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promised to provide and we're quoting
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technical assistance for energy sector
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reforms and the drafting of a new
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renewable energy law
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so in return for all this help
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ghana agreed to limit its carbon
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emissions and then they entered the
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paris climate agreement oh how virtuous
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what happened next this is the part you
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don't read that much about last year
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ghana experienced a complete shutdown of
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its national power supply oh no more
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electricity
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no emissions because we have no
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electricity
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and blackouts have continued since then
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just yesterday a new source in ghana
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reported that quote
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residents in parts of the ashanti region
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who have been hit with power cuts are
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without water as well
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because it turns out you need
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electricity to provide water
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also to grow food
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now this is not a small thing the
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ashanti region has millions of people
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living in it they're all now living in
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the stone age
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and such as the energy grid that's now
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compromised in ghana international
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observers say the country is now facing
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severe food shortages and hunger
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starvation within a matter of months why
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is that it's a fertile country
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hard-working people now they're running
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out of fertilizer
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why well because for years sandy
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cortez's friends in the ngo community
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pushed ghana toward less efficient more
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expensive organic fertilizers and the
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government of ghana because it's not a
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rich government caved
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last year according to ghana's news
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service ghana's agricultural minister
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urged local farmers to adopt an organic
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agriculture system to reduce the impact
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of climate change oh what happened then
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well the good people have gone up while
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they feel good about their fight against
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climate change are now starving
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and in june
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last month police in ghana used water
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and tear gas to attack hundreds of
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demonstrators in accra which is the
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capital of ghana
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it's not just ghana the same thing just
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happened in sri lanka in 2016 the world
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economic forum published an article by a
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columbia professor called joseph
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stiglitz one of the dumbest people on
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planet earth
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urging ghana to transition to quote high
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productivity organic farming now what
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does digless know about farming ever
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farmed
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but he felt strongly that sri lanka
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should try a new kind of farming and of
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course sold it to sri lankans as a
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pathway to prosperity in 2015 the world
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economic forum published an article on
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its website entitled and we're quoting
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this is how we will make sri lanka rich
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by 2025. you can search for that article
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but it's gone now along with the
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government of sri lanka so they had an
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actual insurrection not january 6 not a
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guy in horns and a bear skin running
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around on mushrooms making weird noises
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no an actual insurrection where they
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like come to your house and swim in your
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swimming pool root through your sock
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drawer and make you leave
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that's what they did to the people who
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run sri lanka they being the public the
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turning point came in 2021 when the
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president of sri lanka acting on advice
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from the world economic forum banned the
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use and importation of chemical
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fertilizers now the problem was
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virtually every farm in sri lanka used
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those fertilizers to produce food which
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it turns out people need every day in
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order to survive
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as a result of that move food prices in
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sri lanka nearly doubled
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millions more sri lankans now live in
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poverty which is not a joke
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and because the economy has collapsed
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srilanka now cannot afford fuel imports
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so sri lankans are now waiting days for
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gasoline watch
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36 year old thuban and auto rickshaw
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driver has spent two nights at this gas
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station in central colombo
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it's been an endless way to refuel his
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three-wheeler patrol pumps are all but
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dry across the city
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at every petrol station we go to they
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tell us they have run out of gas
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with no fuel towing has been out of work
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he leaves his rickshaw in the care of
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friends and heads home to meet family
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where the situation is equally dire
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there's been a crippling shortage of
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cooking gas across the island nation
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tuvan's wife fatima has been cooking on
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a kerosene stove for the last
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three months
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i only have this one bottle of kerosene
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left it'll finish after i heat the food
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tonight
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what's so interesting is
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millions of people are now really
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suffering the government just fell
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in sri lanka now no one in sri lanka is
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white they're all what
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our democratic party would call people
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of color and yet the american
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intellectuals who push that disaster in
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sri lanka
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who are responsible for the suffering
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there
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have escaped
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all culpability no one is saying a word
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about it meanwhile a cop in minneapolis
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was rough with a convicted felon two
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years ago we have to stop everything and
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send him to prison for life but joseph
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stiglitz is totally fine
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and it's not just happening by the way
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in the third world it's happening even
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in rich countries the netherlands for
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example it's a very rich country the
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second biggest food exporter in the
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world
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tried to do for reasons that are not
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clear but may have to do with western
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guilt the same thing that leaders in sri
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lanka tried to do they just ordered
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farmers to cut virtually all of their
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nitrogen oxide emissions to quote save
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the environment now doing that would
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shutter most farms in the netherlands
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and destroy the country's food supply
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and once again that led to riots
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so everything that's happened in sri
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lanka and ghana and the netherlands is
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happening at the behest not simply of
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ideologues but of some of the largest
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financial institutions in the world they
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want more of this it's why ghana has
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achieved a near-perfect esg
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environmental impact score of 97.7
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according to world economic research sri
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lanka has an esg score of 98.1 the
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netherlands 90.7 so the poorer you get
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the more human suffering there is the
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higher your esg score and that's
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important because
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companies will not invest unless you
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have a high esg score
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interesting so these countries have no
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choice and that's why south africa for
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example works so hard to get an esg
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score that now totals 91 now that effort
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began in 2015 when south africa switched
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to renewables now how did that work well
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like everything in south africa no one
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in america really wants to know it's
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their favorite country it's a huge
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success what's life like in south africa
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for people of all colors
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stop
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well the guardian of all places reported
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at the time when we were quoting solar
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biomass and wind energy systems are
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popping up all over the country and
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feeding the clean energy into the
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strained electrical grid so their grid's
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been falling apart since 1994 but no
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problem
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the green energy geniuses are going to
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save south africa how'd that work
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well seven years later the washington
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post reports that south africa regularly
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experiences quote rolling blackouts that
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last eight hours or more crippling
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economic activity and disrupting life in
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this nation 60 million people and that's
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true ask anyone who lives there it's
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falling apart it doesn't work
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also true in france france is committed
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to renewable energy how's that working
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well france currently has an esg
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environmental score of 92.6 why because
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10 years ago france pledged to drive a
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quarter of all of its energy from
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renewables
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in 2018 these policies led to riots
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remember the so-called yellow jackets
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people didn't like it if you cared about
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democracy you would listen to them but
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no one in charge actually does so they
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don't and things have gotten worse since
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then this past june the heads of three
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french energy companies called on the
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public to quote
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immediately reduce consumption of fuel
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oil electricity and gas amid shortages
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and soaring prices oh stop civilization
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it doesn't work
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that same month france's president
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publicly begged joe biden to start
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producing more oil because the saudis
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could not make enough to supply europe
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watch
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one i'm at the maximum maximum
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what he claimed
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this is my
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second
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before six months
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so only the europeans
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have been dumb enough to embrace this
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unlike ghana they could afford not to
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but they are anyway out of some weird
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sense of collective guilt so what's
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happening throughout europe in the uk
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esg score of 92.7 the national
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infrastructure commission has warned
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that as many as six million households
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could face power cuts this summer sound
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like the first world no it doesn't but
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that's england now in germany esg score
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90.2 the government is now rationing hot
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water due to an ongoing gas crisis
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officials in hamburg germany's second
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largest city just warned that quote warm
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water could only be made available at
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certain times of the day in an emergency
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now it's just a few years ago the
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germany's government laughed at warnings
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from donald trump that this would happen
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it's on video oh they are so stupid you
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have no idea green energy is the future
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every place that's been tried has fallen
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apart every single one with no
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exceptions albania kenya argentina peru
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ecuador panama libya so on
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but it's not just a problem there it's
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becoming a problem here so in the united
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states our esg score on environmental
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issues currently stands at 58
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but joe biden who buys into every stupid
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trend wants to change that it's very
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important to get our esg score up
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because we want to be more like ghana
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so at the very moment that biden is
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sending our strategic petroleum reserve
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which we own he doesn't to his son's
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business partners in china he is vowing
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to end fossil fuels in this country and
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boost our esg score watch
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would there be any place for fossil
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fuels including coal and fracking in the
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biden administration
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no
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we would we would work it out we would
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make sure it's eliminated and no more
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subsidies for either one of those either
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any fossil fuel no more subsidies for
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fossil fuel industry no more drilling on
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federal lands no more drilling including
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offshore no ability for the oil industry
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to continue to drill period but i want
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you to look in my eyes
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i guarantee you i guarantee you we're
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going to end fossil fuel and i am not
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going to cooperate okay
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so let's just be really clear fossil
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fuels aren't just not bad
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fossil fuels aren't just a net good
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fossil fuels are the only thing
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that stands between the united states
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becoming ghana fossil fuels are the only
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thing that make the united states a rich
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country and not a poor country we have
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the largest recoverable oil reserves in
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the world if we can't tap those we will
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be gone we'll be poor
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but joe biden doesn't care
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and so he is clamping down on our
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ability
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to extract them
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and like the leaders of every other
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country driven into the ground by green
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energy schemes thought up by morons like
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sandy cortez he's taking no
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responsibility for the damage he has
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caused
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look we need
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more refining capacity
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this idea that they don't have oil to
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drill
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and to bring up is simply not true
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this piece of the republicans talking
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about biden shut down feels
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wrong 9 000 of them okay
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so they then we ought to be able to work
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something out
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whereby they're able to increase
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refining capacity
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and still not give up on
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transitioning to
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renewable energy
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problems he doesn't know anything about
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refining or extracting or how the grid
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works
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or anything about anything because he's
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never had a real job he's worked for the
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federal government since he was in his
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20s
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none of these people have any experience
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doing anything again most of them can't
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drive a manual transmission
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so to get a lecture on the power grid or
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energy from people who have no idea what
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it is is a bit much and the topic is too
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important to continue to listen to their
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nonsense as we become poorer
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and by the way as the rifts just beneath
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the surface in american society are
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exacerbated by that poverty
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as gdp drops societal tension rises it's
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dangerous back off and it's accelerating
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in the past year the united states has
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experienced blackouts in some of our
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biggest states why because they're
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relying more and more on renewables
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places like california and even texas
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just yesterday in order to avoid a
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blackout the largest grid operator in
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the state of texas begged residents to
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turn up their thermostats no more ac for
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you and asked them not to use any major
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appliances really in texas which has the
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largest oil and gas reserves in the
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continental united states what are they
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doing in texas
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but across the country this is true
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orlando florida recently experimented
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with fertilizer bans to quote curb
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pollution
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so the world economic forum wants a lot
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more of this they just released a
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position paper calling for countries to
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quote agree to end the under pricing of
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fossil fuels which is the principal
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factor preventing a clean energy
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transition in other words it's too cheap
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it works too well gas needs to be higher
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so you won't be able to use it so you'll
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have to be poor
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and they're saying this as we're
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watching countries around the world we
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can give you more detail you see the
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point are collapsing and entering into a
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state of revolution because these morons
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tampered with their energy grids
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but they don't care they're gonna
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continue doing it unless someone stops
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them until exactly the same thing
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happens here
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that's true subscribe to the fox news
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carlson tonight
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