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now or public officials our elected representatives
and many of our leaders are captains of industry our business leaders
could be guilty of crimes against humanity
and it's up to us what we want to do but
egos side is the crime of mass destruction of the environment nearing
lives
in it and because it's considered on par with things like genocide
torture has been an international poor since
way back in the nineteen seventies to put egos side
under the purview the International Criminal Court at The Hague so that
people could be prosecuted
for ecosystem just like they can be prosecuted for genocide
while the ICC has yet to classify ego site as a crime there's a growing body
of evidence that suggests
that he should do so too should do so soon and that's because the world's
leading climate change
organization the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC
they just had this meeting the last week in Japan
and at the the reporter published over the weekend they've concluded that our
fossil fuel addiction
is leading to the
environmental destruction so serious
that it could conceivably
be irreversible and catastrophic does the words that they use what that means
to me
is and industrial civilization possibly the into the human race
and I've talk in fact on this program what scientists who have said that
that's what's common if we don't do something now this
this new report that the IPCC just came out after months and months a
deliberation
and keep in mind the IPCC this is a consensus organization
everybody has to agree later doesn't go out one person can stop her from going
out
which means that they always give us the most conservative
scenario possible and this new report that just came up in San absolutely
devastating picture the future of our planet
they say the global warming is going to lead to a parade of horribles including
the breakdown of our global food systems
shrinking water resources an increase in violent conflict wars
and im and in many ways it's already started
you know the Arab Spring we were told it's all about you know a Tunisian
Street vendor got to all up certain
cards up on fire committed suicide in Bowman all blow up well
the actual Arab Spring from Tunisia to syrup to
to Syria to Egypt what's really driving in this
is not that these people are sick and tired of the damn dictators cuz
in many cases the damn dictators were subsidize the price is there food
subsidize the price their fuel
providing them with the national health care system life wasn't all that bad
twenty and thirty years ago and why these countries
but now because of climate change induced drought
the price a weed has doubled and tripled in these regions
and in some cases it's just not yet available this is the basic foodstuff
this is the primary stuff for these folks
eat hungry people rise up
and they're doing it all over the world and this is just the beginning
I mean look at the USA were
were rich enough that we can always import food or having to import more and
more food
and we could be searing seen some serious problems in the united states
now say that we are dr.
now you know record number of people on food stamps
in large part because food is so on affordable you
wide because the midwestern breadbasket is baking last year we had
you know San some incredible percentage of the the food crop it couldn't be
brought in because of drought california
which is you know our fruit and vegetable
bread baskets the wrong word what it what he called garden
they're having such a severe drought right now you've got towns that are on
that are within weeks or months of having to be literally evacuated
and meanwhile you know six hundred miles to the north in Washington State
you had twenty people whose Diana mudslide because it's raining too much
of the weather has gone nuts
and now all that and that's not to mention the hundreds of thousands of
people have died over just the past few years
from the wildly Morsi beer the normal storms typhoons
hurricanes monsoons from
the Philippines in Bangladesh to
mile-wide superstorm tornadoes in the United States and hurricane sandy
and who is the lead polluter in the world the billet biggest villain
villainous morality play it's on us
because %uh var outside perper per capita carbon footprint
and in part because our political process has been so badly corrupted by
the fossil fuel industry
and you can thank republican appointees on the US Supreme Court for much of this
ever since Lewis Paul wrote his infamous memo calling for business to take over
the judiciary
I laid the whole story out my book the crash in 2016
beginning to end ever since then
and and then Peter richard nixon put him on the Supreme Court then
few months later 1971 ever since then the Supreme Court cases from Buckley
the Vallejo to citizens united has made it easier and easier easier for oil and
coal barons to
own american politicians
in these politicians than hairdos idiotic laws like the one that oklahoma
congressman Jim brandenstein
is promoting that would force know %ah the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
to pare down the climate change research isn't that an irony
the the week that is that movie called no it is not
I've yell I want to go see right that there's gonna be a good adventure in
we just didn't get too I also wanna see the movie but Cesar Chavez
that looks like a good one too so you know probably next weekend always night
that'll be our
weekend activity but but back to this the corruption of our political system
this is the fossa fuel industry buying of
pain of controlling they get they decanter
politicians by the neck
and these these things ever real-world consequences
beyond just these bizarro bill sponsored by shows like brandenstein
brandenstein its
so as the days go by
and people continue to die a in food dyes and fines
and droughts happen in congress continues to delay or obstruct
doing and neat thing about global warming is that's happening we keep
passing climate
tipping points that are so severe
that once we pass them people and large parts of our environment i won the most
dangerous those to see to in points
is the one associate with meh think with melting Arctic sea ice
in the possibility have tundra and CB sea bed methane releases I mean if we
don't do something to suit
to stop this it could lead to the Earth's sixth mass extinction
is serious scientist talking about that using that phrase
so we need to have a conversation about charging people
and institutions with egos side
if the very real threat of an environmental apocalypse is brought up
in the IPCC's report
if that doesn't scare politicians are taking action
maybe the threat of going to prison prosecution
in the international court will do it I know some people can say our
at harmonies guide extremist kind of the
when the alternative is the destruction a much to the world ecosystems
everything has to be on the table I mean the future of our planet
the future of our species
is at stake do we want this world do we want it to be
a situation where as guy macpherson says we get to see the end of the movie
or do we want the movie to keep on point
we want to go the way the dinosaurs do we want to turn the earth
into Venus
there's a very real possibility we could do that
and the IPCC I mean they've gone from 25-30 years ago same's
paid to twenty years ago same
we think there's a problem the ten years ago same
you know there's a pretty serious problem you guys probably should talk
about
25 years ago saying this is gonna be a disaster sometime in the next 100 years
to now sane or go out
this is the Thom Hartmann program it's time for the International Criminal
Court to seriously consider
ecosystem