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Preston in Denver last name 768 Preston
he climate change yes and
I was thinking about how the news of climate change can
feel so overwhelming and the news about
mountaintop removal to get a column that tar sands deforestation and ocean
acidification
so much else and then the economic injustice going on
my top it all off but you're talking about are when the most
and about a evolution and cooperation
and I want to share some parts of and some examples of how that's going on
where I see going on
for example so many civic organizations and faith communities
interactive on climate and economic issues
the unitary in churches the Quakers across the country are doing great work
not so the busy right unity in weekend we have allies in the business community
like insurance industry and the ski industry
both of whom are very concerned about climate change issues yeah
the reinsurance industry is actually the one that's most concerned about it cuz
they backstop the insurance industry
and I was wondering also what are your thoughts
arm about other approaches
like a natural capitalism I know hardcore in
dole-clinton both have been put on it so that and wife Ann Jones wrote about the
green collar economy
from spicy I see this as being you know I'm not writing all that stuff
works Preston once you capture externalities and that's the big piece
in the equation that very few people are talking about
the fact that if the oil if if we factored
into the cost of a gallon of gas the price to have the 5th fleet protects
the Exxon Mobil shipping lines from Saudi Arabia to
to you know wherever they're poor his on the East Coaster this or the
or in the Gulf I if you factored into the cost a good buy a gallon gasoline in
the tank
or the the price have oil or or natural gas that's been used to power of
power plant or whatever you factor into that the cost to the key other cancers
that are the result of burning
and releasing carbon the fossil fuels and the pollution of the water caused by
the reinjection a fracking liquids
which are in many cases simply the waste materials a refining processes a
a fossil fuels and oil principally if you factor in the cost it for our coal
power plants have
these giant DOI it whole slurry
you know bill wastes piles that are all over the United States or not
near one just you know polluted river in West Virginia St
if all that stuff was factored into the cost of these fossil fuels
they would become more expensive than wind and solar
and that would push the market in an appropriate direction and then you could
have a green collar economy and then you can have your natural capital as well I
kinda stuff
but as long as these guys control congress
as long as they control the political agenda as long as they control
the media much of the media agenda through the power big-money
because the supreme court said that money is protected by the First
Amendment
as long as that's the case it's going to be really really hard to have those
natural systems work the way they should have money concerns president
hot all very good player thank you so much I also want to point out though
we do have some allies and local government governments I know some
cities
have actually gone beyond the Kyoto Protocol my car meant
in you know they're expanding like a real they're planting trees
putting up solar their building neighborhoods that make sense
mixed-use North homes and businesses instead of
you know although dependency with a suburban sprawl that we so often are
that's my conspiracy I think there are two industrial complex has been doing
some things that are
incredibly inefficient and expensive and forces and on the other hand you got you
know one other car makers
I mean I think the Chevy Volt is a is a masterpiece a a brilliant piece a
engineering and I expect to see a lot more you know that kinda
hybrid technology makes technology true hybrid technology and
next year one of the japanese auto manufacturers is coming out with a
hydrogen fuel cell car
so you know step by step by step president thanks a lot for the call