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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:17,142 --> 00:00:19,602 BILL (over TV): Is the climate in this country really changing? 4 00:00:19,686 --> 00:00:22,272 REPORTER (over TV): Yes, and not only in this country, Bill. 5 00:00:22,355 --> 00:00:25,358 There are many lines of evidence, which show that the climate has slowly been 6 00:00:25,442 --> 00:00:29,946 warming up during the 20th century over almost the entire Earth's surface. 7 00:00:30,321 --> 00:00:33,324 MAN (over TV): Man may be unwittingly changing the world's climate through 8 00:00:33,408 --> 00:00:35,285 the waste products of his civilization. 9 00:00:35,368 --> 00:00:38,580 REPORTER (over TV): Over pollution unless checked could so warm the Earth in 10 00:00:38,663 --> 00:00:42,500 200 years as to create a greenhouse effect melting the Arctic ice. 11 00:00:43,334 --> 00:00:46,212 REPORTER (over TV): The temperature of the lower atmosphere will rise perhaps 12 00:00:46,296 --> 00:00:49,299 to a greater extent than at any time since the end of the last ice age. 13 00:00:50,508 --> 00:00:53,470 JAMES: This evidence represents a very strong case, in my opinion, 14 00:00:53,553 --> 00:00:57,307 that the greenhouse effect has been detected and it is changing our climate now. 15 00:00:57,974 --> 00:01:02,020 NARRATOR: The science is in: for decades, there's been scientific consensus that 16 00:01:02,103 --> 00:01:07,567 climate change is real, is caused by humans and poses a threat to civilization. 17 00:01:08,568 --> 00:01:13,406 CARL: Solving these problems requires a transnational 18 00:01:14,282 --> 00:01:16,910 and transgenerational perspective. 19 00:01:18,328 --> 00:01:21,998 NARRATOR: Starting at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, 20 00:01:22,832 --> 00:01:25,710 the international community began working together to address the 21 00:01:25,794 --> 00:01:27,962 greatest issue in human history. 22 00:01:28,463 --> 00:01:32,008 REPORTER (over TV): 175 nations did sign a blueprint for the world's future. 23 00:01:32,509 --> 00:01:34,135 It's a weaker blueprint than many wanted, 24 00:01:34,219 --> 00:01:37,097 but the real test comes in the months and years ahead. 25 00:01:37,472 --> 00:01:41,559 NARRATOR: Every year since 1995, the global community has gathered together 26 00:01:42,018 --> 00:01:44,562 to negotiate a lasting agreement to reduce carbon emissions. 27 00:01:46,356 --> 00:01:48,691 REPORTER (over TV): In Japan today, talks on a global climate 28 00:01:48,775 --> 00:01:51,402 treaty went way into overtime. 29 00:01:51,486 --> 00:01:54,364 REPORTER (over TV): The ink is barely dry on an historic agreement to fight 30 00:01:54,447 --> 00:01:57,784 global warming and already its future is in doubt. 31 00:01:57,867 --> 00:01:59,369 REPORTER (over TV): Big polluters like India 32 00:01:59,452 --> 00:02:01,454 and China haven't signed on. 33 00:02:01,538 --> 00:02:05,792 NARRATOR: Despite the failings of international climate negotiations and agreements, 34 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:10,171 advocates from cities, towns and states, along with businesses and universities, 35 00:02:11,339 --> 00:02:13,299 continued their pressure. 36 00:02:13,383 --> 00:02:15,468 REPORTER (over TV): Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of New York today. 37 00:02:15,552 --> 00:02:18,054 NARRATOR: And renewable energy continued to grow. 38 00:02:18,138 --> 00:02:21,266 REPORTER (over TV): You may want to consider a job in the clean energy industry. 39 00:02:21,349 --> 00:02:23,726 It is growing and they need more workers. 40 00:02:23,810 --> 00:02:27,730 NARRATOR: And in 2015, led by the world's largest carbon emitters, 41 00:02:28,523 --> 00:02:30,316 the world came together in Paris. 42 00:02:31,025 --> 00:02:34,237 REPORTER (over TV): It took two decades, but now a historic agreement on climate 43 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,073 change signed by nearly every nation in the world. 44 00:02:37,907 --> 00:02:39,576 (speaking in foreign language). 45 00:02:39,659 --> 00:02:42,579 MAN (over TV): We've written a new chapter of hope in the lives of 46 00:02:42,662 --> 00:02:44,372 7 billion people on the planet. 47 00:02:44,455 --> 00:02:46,374 REPORTER (over TV): The new deal will not end global warming, 48 00:02:46,457 --> 00:02:49,127 but signatories have agreed to reduce their carbon emissions 49 00:02:49,210 --> 00:02:51,254 and it's being seen as a turning point. 50 00:02:51,754 --> 00:02:54,549 PRESIDENT OBAMA: The Paris Agreement represents the best chance we've had 51 00:02:54,632 --> 00:02:56,593 to save the one planet that we've got. 52 00:02:56,676 --> 00:02:59,262 (applause). 53 00:03:12,317 --> 00:03:16,362 PRESIDENT TRUMP: In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America 54 00:03:17,071 --> 00:03:21,868 and its citizens, the United States will withdraw 55 00:03:24,495 --> 00:03:28,833 from the Paris Climate Accord. 56 00:03:31,252 --> 00:03:37,091 I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris. 57 00:03:47,227 --> 00:03:50,104 PEDUTO: It's the afternoon. I'm sitting in this room. 58 00:03:50,188 --> 00:03:54,275 I'm looking over my phone and I get an alert and the alert says, 59 00:03:56,194 --> 00:04:00,531 "I was elected to represent the people of Pittsburgh, not Paris." 60 00:04:01,991 --> 00:04:03,159 PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you. 61 00:04:03,243 --> 00:04:04,744 PEDUTO: Read it twice. 62 00:04:04,827 --> 00:04:08,039 Went into to my chief of staff's office and just yelled, "Pittsburgh?!" 63 00:04:08,122 --> 00:04:10,041 And he's like, what are you talking about? 64 00:04:10,124 --> 00:04:11,417 And I said, 65 00:04:12,168 --> 00:04:15,380 and I started tweeting back that Pittsburgh was going 66 00:04:15,463 --> 00:04:18,258 to stay in the Paris Agreement. 67 00:04:19,217 --> 00:04:20,885 (inaudible). 68 00:04:20,969 --> 00:04:24,472 EVA: In the aftermath of President Trump pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, 69 00:04:24,555 --> 00:04:29,102 Pittsburghers came out in thousands to say that we were going to take climate action 70 00:04:29,185 --> 00:04:32,188 into our own hands and move forward as a city. 71 00:04:32,689 --> 00:04:37,694 PEDUTO: And so we decided to show how policy at a local level will help 72 00:04:37,777 --> 00:04:38,903 to change the world. 73 00:04:38,987 --> 00:04:42,198 REPORTER (over TV): Mayor Bill Peduto signed an executive order today that requires 74 00:04:42,282 --> 00:04:45,118 the city to follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement. 75 00:04:45,201 --> 00:04:47,829 NARRATOR: It wasn't just Pittsburgh that reacted to this announcement. 76 00:04:48,997 --> 00:04:51,958 A movement was galvanized around the country. 77 00:04:52,041 --> 00:04:54,752 REPORTER (over TV): Already this morning there is a new drive that's gaining steam to 78 00:04:54,836 --> 00:04:58,881 stick to the U.S.'s commitments combating climate change despite President Trump. 79 00:04:59,590 --> 00:05:04,053 NARRATOR: In the U.S., hundreds of cities, states, universities and businesses 80 00:05:04,637 --> 00:05:07,473 joined the ranks of those already committed to the goals of Paris. 81 00:05:08,558 --> 00:05:13,813 BROWN: Mayors and governors, we're here in the action on the field taking the kind of 82 00:05:13,896 --> 00:05:18,818 steps that are needed to get the job done to preserve our climate. 83 00:05:18,901 --> 00:05:23,072 NARRATOR: A revolution is underway to tackle our biggest sources of carbon emissions, 84 00:05:23,448 --> 00:05:27,160 creating transformations in how people get around, build buildings, 85 00:05:27,243 --> 00:05:30,872 grow food and generate electricity. 86 00:05:30,955 --> 00:05:35,209 So while coal plants continue to close, clean energy is creating jobs, 87 00:05:35,835 --> 00:05:38,171 growing the economy and lowering emissions. 88 00:05:38,838 --> 00:05:41,257 PEDUTO (off screen): Despite the President's announcement, 89 00:05:41,341 --> 00:05:45,094 we are still moving ahead in renewable energy. 90 00:05:45,178 --> 00:05:50,808 There are now more jobs in renewable energy in the state of Pennsylvania than coal, 91 00:05:52,226 --> 00:05:55,313 natural gas and oil combined. 92 00:05:56,064 --> 00:05:58,358 CURBELO (off screen): I think the president has it wrong. 93 00:05:58,441 --> 00:06:02,195 This isn't a zero-sum game where we either save the environment 94 00:06:02,278 --> 00:06:04,739 or grow the economy. 95 00:06:04,822 --> 00:06:08,117 We can do both at the same time. 96 00:06:08,201 --> 00:06:11,579 BLOOMBERG: The American government may have pulled out of the Paris Agreement, 97 00:06:11,662 --> 00:06:17,126 but the American people are committed to its goals and there is nothing Washington 98 00:06:17,210 --> 00:06:20,129 can do to stop us. 99 00:06:20,213 --> 00:06:23,633 NARRATOR: The solutions are at hand and it couldn't be soon enough. 100 00:06:23,716 --> 00:06:27,136 The front lines of climate change are now in everyone's backyard, 101 00:06:27,220 --> 00:06:29,680 from California to Iowa to Florida. 102 00:06:29,764 --> 00:06:35,186 Climate change is not coming, it's already here. 103 00:06:44,153 --> 00:06:47,532 CASTRO: I grew up in the heart of South Miami and when I was 10 years old, 104 00:06:47,615 --> 00:06:50,535 I first started to get involved in surfing. 105 00:06:54,247 --> 00:06:58,459 I remember coming out on South Beach early on when I started to surf and I remember 106 00:06:58,543 --> 00:07:04,674 just seeing vast land of sand before you hit the beach and now you know I come back 107 00:07:04,757 --> 00:07:10,805 to Miami and I continue to be shocked at how close the water is encroaching on South Beach. 108 00:07:10,888 --> 00:07:15,017 I think we're going to have to adapt very, very quickly to the rising tides 109 00:07:15,101 --> 00:07:16,769 and to the rising seas. 110 00:07:16,853 --> 00:07:19,480 CLEETUS: Climate change isn't just about some far-off future. 111 00:07:19,564 --> 00:07:21,732 It's actually happening all around us right now. 112 00:07:21,816 --> 00:07:25,528 And here in the U.S. along the east and Gulf coast 113 00:07:25,611 --> 00:07:28,239 of the country in particular, we have some real hotspots 114 00:07:28,322 --> 00:07:31,951 where we're seeing even greater and faster rates of sea level rise. 115 00:07:32,910 --> 00:07:37,165 MANN: In Florida, there isn't much elevation and so they are now dealing with perennial 116 00:07:37,248 --> 00:07:40,877 flooding in Miami Beach, in Fort Lauderdale, from what they call king tides. 117 00:07:41,961 --> 00:07:44,922 REPORTER (over TV): King tides are here and the rising floodwaters are creating 118 00:07:45,006 --> 00:07:47,049 some trouble for drivers and residents. 119 00:07:47,133 --> 00:07:50,052 REPORTER (over TV): Salt water seeping up through storm drains and over the sea wall, 120 00:07:50,136 --> 00:07:52,638 soaking the streets of Miami Beach. 121 00:07:52,722 --> 00:07:55,641 MANN (off screen): These are seasonal high tides that have been there 122 00:07:55,725 --> 00:07:58,227 for the eons and yet now when they 123 00:07:58,311 --> 00:08:01,647 arrive in the fall they flood the streets of Miami Beach, 124 00:08:02,023 --> 00:08:03,566 and that's because of sea level rise. 125 00:08:03,649 --> 00:08:07,737 CASTRO: In fact, there is an image of an octopus that was found in a parking garage half 126 00:08:07,820 --> 00:08:12,200 mile in from the beach and it's just showing that, you know, this is real deal. 127 00:08:13,201 --> 00:08:16,537 LEWIS: The big focus in Miami Beach, I believe, is on adaptation. 128 00:08:17,663 --> 00:08:22,919 They're spending $500,000,000 on pumps to keep the tidal water off 129 00:08:23,002 --> 00:08:24,962 the streets during king tides. 130 00:08:25,046 --> 00:08:28,883 So, you adapt to climate change by elevating roads, 131 00:08:28,966 --> 00:08:30,676 putting that green infrastructure in, 132 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,346 slowing the worse effects from happening. 133 00:08:33,429 --> 00:08:38,226 So that's getting a lot of attention because people see that as, 134 00:08:38,935 --> 00:08:42,438 keep the water away from me kind of thing. 135 00:08:43,481 --> 00:08:48,361 What they're not doing quick enough is addressing things like salt water intrusion and 136 00:08:48,444 --> 00:08:53,449 when people talk about sea level rise being the thing that gets us out of here 137 00:08:53,533 --> 00:08:58,704 because we're flooding, I wonder if it couldn't be freshwater vulnerability that 138 00:08:58,788 --> 00:09:01,624 gets us out of here faster. 139 00:09:02,750 --> 00:09:05,753 NARRATOR: The Everglades is a critical source of fresh drinking water 140 00:09:05,836 --> 00:09:09,006 for nearly eight million people in southern Florida. 141 00:09:09,090 --> 00:09:13,928 But as the sea rises, it's moving inland, pushing sea water into the aquifers 142 00:09:14,011 --> 00:09:17,974 and the Everglades, and threatening the freshwater supply for the entire region. 143 00:09:28,067 --> 00:09:30,486 CASTRO: A lot of people, when they think of sea level rise in the State of Florida, 144 00:09:30,570 --> 00:09:34,490 they think encroaching on the coastlines, but because we're, 145 00:09:34,574 --> 00:09:36,909 we're built on this porous limestone, 146 00:09:36,993 --> 00:09:40,246 water can actually percolate up. 147 00:09:40,329 --> 00:09:42,665 WANLESS: Once the water level's up, the water will just come through. 148 00:09:42,748 --> 00:09:44,083 CASTRO (off screen): Come through, right. 149 00:09:44,166 --> 00:09:47,420 WANLESS: And there's essentially nothing we can do to stop that. 150 00:09:48,087 --> 00:09:50,923 That's a real problem because as sea level has risen, 151 00:09:51,007 --> 00:09:53,926 we've been pulling harder on wells, 152 00:09:54,010 --> 00:09:58,514 sucking harder, so we're sort of pulling salt water in from the ocean too, doing that. 153 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:02,018 CASTRO (off screen): It's almost, we're pulling up brackish water, essentially. 154 00:10:02,101 --> 00:10:05,688 WANLESS (off screen): Yes, we've had to move the wells farther and farther inland. 155 00:10:05,771 --> 00:10:09,525 I think probably within the next 30 years we'll have lost our fresh water 156 00:10:10,151 --> 00:10:13,154 in South Florida. 157 00:10:13,654 --> 00:10:15,906 MANN (off screen): Look at global sea level rise. 158 00:10:15,990 --> 00:10:18,784 Here's another area of the science where, as we learn more, 159 00:10:18,868 --> 00:10:21,746 we're discovering that we may be worse off than we thought, 160 00:10:22,371 --> 00:10:26,208 the models may have under predicted the amount of sea level rise that we could see 161 00:10:26,834 --> 00:10:29,003 by just the end of this century. 162 00:10:29,086 --> 00:10:31,380 If you look at even a recent report of the 163 00:10:31,464 --> 00:10:33,716 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 164 00:10:33,799 --> 00:10:36,052 they were looking at a worst-case scenario of a little more than 165 00:10:36,135 --> 00:10:41,390 three feet of sea level rise by the end of the century, globally. 166 00:10:41,474 --> 00:10:45,436 But now there's enough new science that's come in that tells us that the ice sheets 167 00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:49,148 are losing ice faster, that there are processes that we didn't have in our models 168 00:10:49,231 --> 00:10:52,902 and as we put them into the models, we're now learning that we could be in 169 00:10:52,985 --> 00:10:57,323 for more than six feet of global sea level rise by the end of the century. 170 00:11:00,743 --> 00:11:02,995 Even if we stop emitting carbon to the atmosphere now, 171 00:11:03,537 --> 00:11:05,289 just because of the inertia of the system, 172 00:11:05,373 --> 00:11:08,793 we will continue to see sea level rise for some time. 173 00:11:08,876 --> 00:11:11,837 And if we continue with business as usual, if we don't do anything about our 174 00:11:11,921 --> 00:11:17,009 escalating carbon emissions, there is nothing to prevent us from melting most of the 175 00:11:18,386 --> 00:11:21,305 West Antarctic ice sheet and a large part of the Greenland ice sheet. 176 00:11:23,015 --> 00:11:27,478 And if we go down that path then at some point in the future we could be seeing 177 00:11:28,104 --> 00:11:31,607 20 feet of global sea level rise. 178 00:11:36,070 --> 00:11:38,739 LUBBER (off screen): It's not happening ten years from now, it is happening now. 179 00:11:39,407 --> 00:11:42,535 Floods are devastating communities, are devastating economies, 180 00:11:43,661 --> 00:11:46,288 are taking away people's homes. 181 00:11:46,372 --> 00:11:47,665 Think about Miami Beach. 182 00:11:47,748 --> 00:11:49,959 We're still seeing building in those areas. 183 00:11:50,042 --> 00:11:54,130 People want to live on the waterfront, but the economic signals are very clear. 184 00:11:54,213 --> 00:11:59,135 Insurance companies don't want to ensure those places, uh, they're being redlined out, 185 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:03,639 meaning they're allowing people to fend for themselves or they're raising their 186 00:12:03,723 --> 00:12:07,184 prices so high that you can't even get insurance. 187 00:12:07,268 --> 00:12:10,187 NARRATOR: In the U.S., it's estimated that in about 25 years, 188 00:12:10,271 --> 00:12:13,941 more than 300,000 homes and businesses valued 189 00:12:14,024 --> 00:12:17,695 at $135 billion may be chronically flooded. 190 00:12:19,155 --> 00:12:23,159 And by the end of the century, that number grows to two and a half million. 191 00:12:23,951 --> 00:12:26,537 ROS-LEHTINEN: I represent communities that people would think they're pretty 192 00:12:26,620 --> 00:12:32,251 conservative and yet now that they see the impact, the economic impact that sea level 193 00:12:33,711 --> 00:12:38,966 rise and climate change has on their pocketbooks and the revenues that their cities 194 00:12:39,049 --> 00:12:43,262 bring in, they're understanding that this is a conservative issue. 195 00:12:45,139 --> 00:12:51,061 But many Republican public officials do not see the urgency in this because 196 00:12:51,687 --> 00:12:54,857 it has been a partisan issue for a long time. 197 00:12:55,191 --> 00:12:59,195 INHOFE: When you say that science is settled and the overwhelming scientific 198 00:12:59,278 --> 00:13:02,740 analysis comes to that conclusion, frankly that is just not correct. 199 00:13:03,699 --> 00:13:07,077 CRUZ: Climate change is not science, it's religion. 200 00:13:07,161 --> 00:13:09,997 CLEETUS (off screen): Climate denialism, the sort of anti-science attitude 201 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,333 about what is clearly observable and which has 202 00:13:12,416 --> 00:13:15,669 been supported by multiple lines of evidence 203 00:13:15,753 --> 00:13:19,131 didn't happen by accident. 204 00:13:19,632 --> 00:13:23,344 There has been a very well-funded, long-standing fossil fuel lobby that has 205 00:13:23,427 --> 00:13:27,014 been spreading disinformation and trying to undercut any 206 00:13:27,097 --> 00:13:30,392 attempt at climate action in the U.S. 207 00:13:30,726 --> 00:13:32,311 GERRARD (off screen): To this day, Koch Industries, 208 00:13:32,394 --> 00:13:35,022 a privately-owned fossil fuel company, 209 00:13:35,856 --> 00:13:39,652 have been funding climate denial activities, 210 00:13:39,735 --> 00:13:43,906 have been working as hard as they can to fight climate regulation. 211 00:13:43,989 --> 00:13:46,617 REPORTER (over TV): The Koch brothers are among the nation's best-known 212 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:48,035 politically active families. 213 00:13:48,118 --> 00:13:51,413 The billionaires' network of political action committees and advocacy groups 214 00:13:51,497 --> 00:13:56,210 will spend $300,000,000 on campaign 2016. 215 00:13:56,293 --> 00:13:58,754 TAYLOR (off screen): Most Republicans in the House and the Senate privately 216 00:13:58,838 --> 00:14:01,549 understand full well climate change is real, 217 00:14:02,216 --> 00:14:04,510 it's not this fiction, it's not a scam, 218 00:14:04,593 --> 00:14:08,722 it's not concocted by liberal activists trying to destroy capitalism. 219 00:14:08,806 --> 00:14:12,935 Uh, that it's a dangerous thing, that we're seeing its impacts now. 220 00:14:13,018 --> 00:14:15,020 They're afraid of what it's going to mean for the future. 221 00:14:15,104 --> 00:14:18,357 They just don't know exactly what they can do about it politically that won't cost 222 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,194 them their job through a primary challenge. 223 00:14:22,278 --> 00:14:25,030 GERRARD: Climate denial is not limited to the federal government. 224 00:14:25,114 --> 00:14:28,367 Some governors have engaged in some similar activities. 225 00:14:28,742 --> 00:14:30,744 Governor Rick Scott of Florida, for example. 226 00:14:30,828 --> 00:14:32,830 REPORTER (over TV): State's Department of Environmental Protection 227 00:14:32,913 --> 00:14:36,292 banned some employees from using the term climate change or global warming. 228 00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:38,502 This unwritten policy went into effect after 229 00:14:38,586 --> 00:14:40,921 Republican Governor Rick Scott took office. 230 00:14:41,005 --> 00:14:44,675 GERRARD (off screen): It's almost as if President Trump is following Governor Scott 231 00:14:44,758 --> 00:14:47,928 and adopting the same kinds of tactics. 232 00:14:48,012 --> 00:14:52,266 Almost all of his cabinet members have been out front in denying that 233 00:14:52,349 --> 00:14:55,477 climate change is being caused mostly by human activities. 234 00:14:56,478 --> 00:14:57,813 PRUITT: Thank you Mr. President. 235 00:14:57,897 --> 00:15:03,360 Your decision today to exit the Paris Accord reflects your unflinching commitment 236 00:15:04,361 --> 00:15:06,238 to put America first. 237 00:15:06,322 --> 00:15:08,574 GERRARD (off screen): They have been going through various federal documents 238 00:15:08,657 --> 00:15:11,619 and x-ing out the terms "climate change." 239 00:15:12,369 --> 00:15:16,081 They want to slash the budgets of the scientific research agencies. 240 00:15:16,165 --> 00:15:18,542 In every imaginable way, 241 00:15:18,626 --> 00:15:22,046 the administration has been discouraging the use of science. 242 00:15:22,129 --> 00:15:25,799 ROS-LEHTINEN: It's hard for us to move any kind of legislation because if we have 243 00:15:25,883 --> 00:15:29,261 the administration against us, it's just really difficult. 244 00:15:30,179 --> 00:15:35,434 SUH: This administration clearly has the environment in its bull's-eye and is clearly, 245 00:15:36,060 --> 00:15:39,563 and systematically, going after every single environmental statute and 246 00:15:40,314 --> 00:15:45,194 regulation as well as the federal government's ability to address climate change. 247 00:15:49,448 --> 00:15:52,284 CURBELO (off screen): And what I would tell my friends in public office 248 00:15:52,368 --> 00:15:55,496 is we need your leadership, both sides of the aisle. 249 00:15:55,579 --> 00:15:58,540 Doesn't matter if you're Republican, Democrat, Independent, 250 00:15:58,624 --> 00:16:02,044 you have a role to play here and those of us who are from Florida should 251 00:16:02,127 --> 00:16:08,133 be even more active and aggressive in pursuing these policies because you know 252 00:16:08,217 --> 00:16:10,302 what's bad for jobs and the economy? 253 00:16:10,386 --> 00:16:15,641 Sea level rise and coastal flooding and saltwater intrusion into the Everglades 254 00:16:16,684 --> 00:16:19,812 where our drinking supply rests in South Florida. 255 00:16:20,354 --> 00:16:22,356 That will really devastate our region. 256 00:16:22,439 --> 00:16:26,276 It actually won't allow us to live there anymore. 257 00:16:26,735 --> 00:16:29,822 WANLESS (off screen): I think somewhere later in this century, 258 00:16:29,905 --> 00:16:32,032 Miami as we know it is going to be unlivable. 259 00:16:32,116 --> 00:16:34,702 So in reality, in South Florida, we're just going to be leaving. 260 00:16:36,328 --> 00:16:37,746 We don't have the problem. 261 00:16:37,830 --> 00:16:39,665 You, up in Orlando. 262 00:16:39,748 --> 00:16:43,919 You better set aside your groundwater resources and you better plan for us. 263 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:46,296 You really better plan 'cause we are coming. 264 00:16:46,380 --> 00:16:49,049 It's not if we don't do something, we may be coming. 265 00:16:49,133 --> 00:16:51,719 We will be coming. 266 00:16:52,928 --> 00:16:55,389 NARRATOR: A recent study showed that by the end of the century, 267 00:16:55,472 --> 00:16:58,350 as many as two and a half million people from southern Florida 268 00:16:58,434 --> 00:17:01,520 may be displaced due to climate change. 269 00:17:01,603 --> 00:17:04,857 And many of them could be headed to Orlando. 270 00:17:08,277 --> 00:17:11,655 The city is not only preparing for these impacts of climate change, 271 00:17:11,739 --> 00:17:14,158 they're also doing their part to fight it, 272 00:17:14,241 --> 00:17:16,285 despite federal inaction. 273 00:17:16,368 --> 00:17:19,913 ISAAC (off screen): The message around climate has been so hard for 274 00:17:20,497 --> 00:17:22,541 ordinary people to plug into. 275 00:17:23,042 --> 00:17:26,545 It's been big and scary and something that's happening far away and 276 00:17:26,628 --> 00:17:29,757 something that I personally can't do anything about. 277 00:17:30,340 --> 00:17:31,633 And that's not true. 278 00:17:31,717 --> 00:17:33,135 It is big and scary. 279 00:17:33,218 --> 00:17:36,346 But there are things we can do and we can impact policy in our communities 280 00:17:36,430 --> 00:17:38,557 that can make a big difference. 281 00:17:38,932 --> 00:17:40,851 Yeah, if everybody could take a seat. 282 00:17:40,934 --> 00:17:44,813 So, I want to say welcome and thank you for being here. 283 00:17:44,897 --> 00:17:50,569 When we founded the First 50 Coalition, our goal was to make our city one of the 284 00:17:51,111 --> 00:17:55,282 first 50 in the nation to commit to 100% renewable energy by 2050. 285 00:17:57,326 --> 00:18:01,288 DYER (off screen): A lot of greenhouse gas emissions come from cities 286 00:18:01,997 --> 00:18:06,126 so after the current administration withdrew us from Paris, 287 00:18:06,627 --> 00:18:09,004 there had been a number of cities that stepped 288 00:18:09,088 --> 00:18:12,382 up to the challenge on renewables and just kind of galvanized us at the local 289 00:18:12,466 --> 00:18:16,345 level that we had to pick up the sword and charge forward. 290 00:18:17,304 --> 00:18:20,599 SPEAKER: Good afternoon, I'd like to welcome you to the August 8th meeting 291 00:18:20,933 --> 00:18:22,476 of the Orlando City Council. 292 00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:23,811 We're going to... 293 00:18:23,894 --> 00:18:28,190 ISAAC: So we went to the city council to get a commitment to 100% renewable energy by 2050; 294 00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:30,359 we were hopeful. 295 00:18:30,442 --> 00:18:33,070 Every single person in that room was in support. 296 00:18:33,153 --> 00:18:36,031 I don't think that's ever happened at a city commission meeting before, 297 00:18:36,782 --> 00:18:39,785 where absolutely everybody is in favor of something. 298 00:18:40,369 --> 00:18:42,621 DYER: All those in favor of the motion indicate so by saying aye. 299 00:18:42,704 --> 00:18:45,916 Those opposed, and so the motion carries unanimously. 300 00:18:47,042 --> 00:18:49,086 (applause). 301 00:18:49,169 --> 00:18:50,879 ISAAC: And they voted yes! 302 00:18:50,963 --> 00:18:53,048 REPORTER (over TV): The City of Orlando has committed to running on 303 00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:55,676 clean renewable energy by 2050. 304 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:58,846 ISAAC: And that was the whole reason we started is we needed a win. 305 00:18:58,929 --> 00:19:00,347 We need a positive momentum. 306 00:19:00,430 --> 00:19:03,559 We needed to say this is the kind of community we could be. 307 00:19:03,934 --> 00:19:06,937 NARRATOR: Commitments to renewable energy are being made around the country. 308 00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:10,482 More than 75 cities throughout the U.S. have already committed 309 00:19:10,566 --> 00:19:13,735 to using 100% renewable energy by midcentury. 310 00:19:15,571 --> 00:19:19,366 To help make this happen cities are developing innovative solutions. 311 00:19:20,409 --> 00:19:23,620 CASTRO: One of the things that we're doing in Orlando is testing floating solar, 312 00:19:23,704 --> 00:19:25,581 what we call floating voltaics. 313 00:19:25,664 --> 00:19:30,711 There's 9,000 man-made ponds, that have been created to capture storm water from the 314 00:19:30,794 --> 00:19:36,341 streets and we've started to test out in some of these ponds how to put floating 315 00:19:36,425 --> 00:19:38,719 solar on top of them. 316 00:19:38,802 --> 00:19:42,598 We've also turned on one of the largest installations that we have, 317 00:19:42,681 --> 00:19:46,894 it's a 12-megawatt community solar farm, and it was literally over decades 318 00:19:46,977 --> 00:19:51,732 a landfill where we were turning coal ash after being burned and burying it. 319 00:19:52,482 --> 00:19:54,735 And we realized that after that was capped, 320 00:19:54,818 --> 00:19:58,447 that that was a prime spot for us to put solar up. 321 00:19:58,530 --> 00:20:02,409 We're also transitioning our downtown bus rapid transit system to 322 00:20:02,492 --> 00:20:04,995 100% electric zero-emission buses. 323 00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:09,458 Another high priority is the energy-food nexus. 324 00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:15,255 We're shipping food all around the world, all around the country, 325 00:20:15,339 --> 00:20:19,259 15 to 1,800 miles per person, per plate, per day. 326 00:20:20,302 --> 00:20:23,347 And in fact, people have done research that food systems contribute 327 00:20:23,430 --> 00:20:25,474 as much as a third of global climate change. 328 00:20:27,976 --> 00:20:29,561 So we were like, all right, 329 00:20:29,645 --> 00:20:32,564 one, we need to localize it, as local as possible. 330 00:20:33,023 --> 00:20:36,276 Two, we need to use zero-emission transportation to build, 331 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:40,239 maintain and distribute that produce to the end users, markets and restaurants. 332 00:20:41,365 --> 00:20:43,742 And that's the epiphany that we had with Fleet Farming. 333 00:20:44,534 --> 00:20:46,328 PERRY (off screen): So starting out, we're going to go ahead and 334 00:20:46,411 --> 00:20:48,247 have a group that's going to harvest and 335 00:20:48,330 --> 00:20:50,499 a group that's going to turn a plot. 336 00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:56,588 CASTRO: There's 40 million acres of lawns across this country that are absorbing 337 00:20:56,672 --> 00:21:00,217 a lot of the water resources, that we're spraying a lot of fertilizers on and causing 338 00:21:00,300 --> 00:21:04,680 other problems and that we could convert into edible landscapes that 339 00:21:04,763 --> 00:21:07,516 can produce our food in our neighborhood. 340 00:21:07,599 --> 00:21:09,810 Not just local but hyper-local. 341 00:21:09,893 --> 00:21:12,145 PERRY: Ok so I'm going to go ahead and show you how to harvest. 342 00:21:12,229 --> 00:21:14,439 Basically, a homeowner pays a startup fee. 343 00:21:14,523 --> 00:21:17,067 We farm their front lawns with the help of the community during 344 00:21:17,150 --> 00:21:18,694 our biweekly swarm rides. 345 00:21:18,777 --> 00:21:23,407 We ride bikes out and we teach the community how to farm these front lawns. 346 00:21:23,490 --> 00:21:25,742 CASTRO: It's a win-win situation across the board. 347 00:21:25,826 --> 00:21:29,746 The homeowner who provides the land is actually getting all of that produce 348 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:32,207 free of charge as much as they want. 349 00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:35,919 The excess that's grown, we're harvesting and we're taking it to market. 350 00:21:37,004 --> 00:21:40,048 PERRY (off screen): We got some heirloom carrots, watermelon radishes and beets. 351 00:21:40,132 --> 00:21:41,383 WOMAN (off screen): Awesome! 352 00:21:41,466 --> 00:21:42,676 CASTRO (off screen): Now we're scaling. 353 00:21:42,759 --> 00:21:45,345 We're in West Oakland, California, we're operating in Jacksonville, 354 00:21:45,429 --> 00:21:48,640 we have two branches in Orlando, so we're pretty excited. 355 00:21:49,850 --> 00:21:53,520 NARRATOR: The pioneering efforts in cities like Orlando are essential to achieving 356 00:21:53,603 --> 00:21:55,939 the goals of the Paris Climate Accord. 357 00:21:56,648 --> 00:22:00,610 Orlando itself is not only bracing for an influx of people from southern Florida, 358 00:22:01,570 --> 00:22:05,407 but because of major hurricanes, which devastated the Caribbean in 2017, 359 00:22:06,241 --> 00:22:09,202 refugees from U.S. territories have already arrived. 360 00:22:09,911 --> 00:22:12,998 REPORTER (over TV): 215,000 people have arrived in Florida alone. 361 00:22:13,081 --> 00:22:15,959 Many survivors are flying to Orlando International Airport 362 00:22:16,585 --> 00:22:18,086 where there's a resource center. 363 00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:21,548 CASTRO: Since Irma and Maria, we've seen now 300,000 people flee to our city and 364 00:22:22,424 --> 00:22:26,887 that's been a big challenge in terms of education for the kids, putting them into schools, 365 00:22:27,971 --> 00:22:30,432 finding reliable, affordable housing for them and then of 366 00:22:30,515 --> 00:22:33,018 course finding them jobs to sustain their families. 367 00:22:33,727 --> 00:22:39,858 EMMANUEL: We have a lot of loved ones who came to the United States. 368 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,403 And went to different states. 369 00:22:43,487 --> 00:22:48,992 But there are still some in Puerto Rico who wish to leave and come here. 370 00:22:50,452 --> 00:22:53,830 CRISTAL: There was a lot of devastation throughout Puerto Rico. 371 00:22:53,914 --> 00:22:57,000 Still there are other areas that still don't have electricity. 372 00:22:57,084 --> 00:22:59,878 It's a long time to be living day-to-day. 373 00:22:59,961 --> 00:23:02,756 Not knowing what you're going to eat. 374 00:23:02,839 --> 00:23:06,468 Not being able to sustain your children. Because you think about them. 375 00:23:07,177 --> 00:23:08,762 They don't understand the situation, 376 00:23:08,845 --> 00:23:12,265 as much as you try to explain it to them. 377 00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:16,019 LUBBER (off screen): The hurricane season of 2017, 378 00:23:16,103 --> 00:23:19,064 we saw flooding that has absolutely devastated 379 00:23:19,898 --> 00:23:24,027 Puerto Rico, Houston, Texas, hundreds of billions of dollars' 380 00:23:24,486 --> 00:23:27,823 worth of damage to people's lives, their homes. 381 00:23:27,906 --> 00:23:30,826 REPORTER (over TV): Hurricane Harvey barreling into the Texas coastline as 382 00:23:30,909 --> 00:23:33,370 a category four storm with 130 mile-an-hour winds. 383 00:23:34,454 --> 00:23:36,289 REPORTER (over TV): It's not just a little bit of rain. 384 00:23:36,373 --> 00:23:40,043 Look at this, feet of rain is what we're communicating, not inches but feet. 385 00:23:40,127 --> 00:23:42,462 CLEETUS (off screen): There are now studies that show that the extreme rainfall that 386 00:23:42,546 --> 00:23:47,134 accompanied that hurricane was made much more likely because of climate change. 387 00:23:47,884 --> 00:23:51,096 MANN: Those warm ocean temperatures meant that there were record amounts of 388 00:23:51,179 --> 00:23:55,475 moisture within that storm, moisture that was available to produce the worst flooding 389 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,478 event on record in the United States. 390 00:23:59,396 --> 00:24:02,065 REPORTER (over TV): For a third brutal day, torrential rain, 391 00:24:02,149 --> 00:24:03,608 people rescued from flooded homes. 392 00:24:03,692 --> 00:24:05,944 WOMAN (over TV): There's water everywhere. We have nowhere to go. 393 00:24:06,027 --> 00:24:08,738 I have all my children. I lost everything. 394 00:24:08,822 --> 00:24:10,699 I have nothing but the clothes on my back. 395 00:24:10,782 --> 00:24:13,952 MANN (off screen): These storms are now about 20% more destructive because 396 00:24:14,035 --> 00:24:15,996 of the overall warming of the ocean, 397 00:24:16,788 --> 00:24:18,999 which thus far is less than a degree Celsius. 398 00:24:19,499 --> 00:24:22,252 Imagine what two degrees Celsius gives us? 399 00:24:22,335 --> 00:24:24,129 REPORTER (over TV): The Caribbean has just been getting hammered. 400 00:24:24,212 --> 00:24:26,423 Here's storm number four in just weeks. 401 00:24:27,048 --> 00:24:28,842 REPORTER (over TV): The winds are going to be devastating. 402 00:24:28,925 --> 00:24:31,636 CRISTAL (off screen): We were left without electricity or water. 403 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,806 We had to find water, food, gasoline, 404 00:24:34,890 --> 00:24:38,810 transportation and communication. 405 00:24:39,853 --> 00:24:41,354 CLEETUS (off screen): These types of extreme weather 406 00:24:41,438 --> 00:24:45,108 events exacerbate already existing challenges so in the case of 407 00:24:45,192 --> 00:24:48,737 Puerto Rico the electricity grid had been under-invested 408 00:24:48,820 --> 00:24:50,572 in for a very long period of time. 409 00:24:50,655 --> 00:24:53,408 And then this hurricane came along and pretty much decimated it. 410 00:24:54,993 --> 00:24:59,289 And that meant not just that people lost power but when they lost power, 411 00:24:59,372 --> 00:25:02,000 people lost lives. 412 00:25:02,083 --> 00:25:05,587 NARRATOR: Puerto Rican officials originally put the death toll at 64. 413 00:25:06,087 --> 00:25:11,134 But nearly a year later, raised that estimate to almost 3,000 people when 414 00:25:11,218 --> 00:25:14,888 accounting for the extended loss of electricity and the lack of food, 415 00:25:14,971 --> 00:25:18,433 water and healthcare after the storm. 416 00:25:19,809 --> 00:25:25,065 Yet in the face of tragedy, a remote town of 18,000 in the mountains of Puerto Rico, 417 00:25:25,774 --> 00:25:28,568 showed how renewable energy can be a life-saving solution. 418 00:25:30,237 --> 00:25:33,406 MAN (off screen): We are transmitting live from Casa Pueblo Radio AM 1020, 419 00:25:34,407 --> 00:25:38,787 the station that kept you informed both during and after Hurricane Maria. 420 00:25:40,038 --> 00:25:44,125 We continue with listening to some beautiful music on Casa Pueblo Radio, 421 00:25:44,209 --> 00:25:48,588 the big hitter of Puerto Rico. 422 00:25:54,135 --> 00:25:57,472 DEYA (off screen): Casa Pueblo is a community-based organization. 423 00:25:57,556 --> 00:26:01,518 We're actively working to change our energy landscape in Adjuntas. 424 00:26:03,144 --> 00:26:06,398 Everything in Casa Pueblo runs on clean energy. 425 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,902 The radio, the production of our brand of coffee. 426 00:26:11,861 --> 00:26:14,739 We have cinema theater run on solar power. 427 00:26:15,657 --> 00:26:20,579 So our installation from being, let's say 10% solar power in 1999 428 00:26:21,955 --> 00:26:24,666 now is fully solar power. 429 00:26:28,753 --> 00:26:32,757 After the hurricane, the whole energy system collapsed in Puerto Rico, 430 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,677 but not in Casa Pueblo. 431 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:40,557 In Casa Pueblo we opened right away and it was used as an energy oasis. 432 00:26:47,272 --> 00:26:51,860 MARTINEZ-SANCHO (off screen): Everyone saw Casa Pueblo as the place to look for help 433 00:26:53,028 --> 00:26:56,156 because power was not anywhere around. 434 00:26:57,532 --> 00:27:03,079 I remember coming to Casa Pueblo and see how many people will do the line 435 00:27:03,163 --> 00:27:06,207 for the solar lamps. 436 00:27:06,291 --> 00:27:10,503 At least we could give them an option, a space, to solve their problems. 437 00:27:14,299 --> 00:27:19,846 DEYA: If you look around, most of the suffering is related to the energy component: 438 00:27:21,681 --> 00:27:25,352 food storage, medicine, medical treatment, 439 00:27:26,394 --> 00:27:32,609 so we decided to do the solar urgency system for 10 houses, 440 00:27:32,692 --> 00:27:36,863 with special needs, to give a small solar system and 441 00:27:36,946 --> 00:27:40,659 enough energy to run special equipment like the dialysis machine 442 00:27:40,742 --> 00:27:43,161 or the respiratory machine. 443 00:27:44,871 --> 00:27:47,499 And that's Maria's house. 444 00:27:55,382 --> 00:27:59,886 DEYA: How did Hurricane Maria affect your life? 445 00:28:01,638 --> 00:28:06,226 MARIA: With respect to my health, it's been very difficult. 446 00:28:06,601 --> 00:28:10,230 I am a dialysis patient and a survivor of open-heart surgery. 447 00:28:13,149 --> 00:28:19,155 It's a bit difficult because I didn't have electricity 448 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,658 to use my dialysis machine. 449 00:28:22,117 --> 00:28:26,871 I began to swell up because of the toxins in my body. 450 00:28:29,124 --> 00:28:32,001 DEYA (off screen): When Casa Pueblo approached you 451 00:28:34,254 --> 00:28:38,717 and first proposed the possibility of installing a solar power system 452 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:44,681 in your home, what did you think at the time? 453 00:28:45,432 --> 00:28:49,018 MARIA: For me, it was a great gift, 454 00:28:49,102 --> 00:28:50,103 a great joy. 455 00:28:50,186 --> 00:28:56,109 Because I was able to have solar power for my machine and get my dialysis. 456 00:28:57,902 --> 00:28:59,821 Thanks to God, yes. 457 00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:05,952 DEYA (off screen): In Puerto Rico, 458 00:29:06,035 --> 00:29:08,329 we have to move away from fossil fuel because 459 00:29:08,413 --> 00:29:11,833 it's damaging our island, our nature and others. 460 00:29:12,709 --> 00:29:16,546 So we are pushing for energy self-sufficiency for the country, 461 00:29:17,714 --> 00:29:23,052 but in order to do that, the first level is to reach that goal, at a local level, 462 00:29:24,304 --> 00:29:29,559 at a community level, to build from the bottom up and to teach others in other parts of 463 00:29:30,351 --> 00:29:36,232 Puerto Rico that we can free our self by engaging in these alternative 464 00:29:36,816 --> 00:29:39,652 that are within our reach. 465 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,281 LOCKE (off screen): Renewable energy is a core strategy for building resilience 466 00:29:43,364 --> 00:29:44,866 right now in the Caribbean. 467 00:29:44,949 --> 00:29:49,120 I think it's in every circle of conversation and dialogue, whether you be at the highest 468 00:29:49,204 --> 00:29:52,123 levels of government or at the local community level. 469 00:29:52,207 --> 00:29:56,419 And so several islands including the Virgin Islands, Dominica and many others are 470 00:29:56,503 --> 00:30:02,008 using the recent hurricanes in the Caribbean as a catalyst for replacing 20-century 471 00:30:02,091 --> 00:30:05,637 fossil fuel grids with 21st century renewable grids. 472 00:30:07,138 --> 00:30:10,809 These islands do not want to be referred to as the victims of climate change 473 00:30:10,892 --> 00:30:14,646 and instead are really the ones bold enough to provide the solutions. 474 00:30:16,564 --> 00:30:19,984 NARRATOR: Although Caribbean countries and other small island nations collectively 475 00:30:20,068 --> 00:30:25,740 produce less than 1% of global greenhouse gases, some are an important testing ground 476 00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:28,535 and a model for the future of clean energy. 477 00:30:29,369 --> 00:30:33,748 Scientists say that we must scale up renewables to meet the Paris targets. 478 00:30:35,083 --> 00:30:39,128 But how fast we must act, and what technologies we use, are the critical questions. 479 00:30:40,421 --> 00:30:42,632 TAYLOR (off screen): We have to reduce the global consumption of 480 00:30:42,715 --> 00:30:47,178 fossil fuels by about 80% by the year 2050 and completely 481 00:30:47,262 --> 00:30:49,764 remove them from the global economy only 482 00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,724 a couple of decades thereafter. 483 00:30:51,808 --> 00:30:55,228 And then figure a way to get greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. 484 00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:58,773 That is a huge challenge. 485 00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:03,319 ROBERTS: If you map out what it's going to take to hit those targets, 486 00:31:03,403 --> 00:31:07,615 you basically have two broad choices and which of those choices you choose 487 00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:10,410 probably depends on who's making your model. 488 00:31:10,493 --> 00:31:11,995 If you're an oil company, 489 00:31:12,078 --> 00:31:14,914 like Shell for instance just came out with a scenario that shows 490 00:31:14,998 --> 00:31:20,169 in the short term continued rise in fossil fuels and then 491 00:31:20,253 --> 00:31:23,381 around mid-century this plunge in emissions and then, 492 00:31:23,464 --> 00:31:26,759 the crucial bit, in the latter half of the century, 493 00:31:26,843 --> 00:31:30,972 implementing technologies which will involve capturing and burying megatons of 494 00:31:31,055 --> 00:31:35,518 carbon, what they call negative emissions. 495 00:31:35,602 --> 00:31:41,858 But maybe we shouldn't bet the future of the human race on a gigantic mega-project 496 00:31:41,941 --> 00:31:45,153 that we have not started and do not know if we can do. 497 00:31:46,195 --> 00:31:48,823 Maybe that's not a good gamble. 498 00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:52,160 But if you look at the scenarios that show us hitting our targets without 499 00:31:52,243 --> 00:31:56,623 negative emissions, it involves in the short term a very substantial, 500 00:31:57,165 --> 00:32:01,252 rapid decline in carbon emissions, which means you've got to start 501 00:32:01,336 --> 00:32:04,172 deploying the technology you have as fast as possible. 502 00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:09,177 MANN (off screen): So we need to be putting our foot on the renewable 503 00:32:09,594 --> 00:32:11,846 energy acceleration pedal 504 00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:16,809 because if we can act at the municipal level, at the city level, at the state level, 505 00:32:16,893 --> 00:32:21,773 then we can actually make a sizable contribution towards reducing our carbon emissions. 506 00:32:23,107 --> 00:32:27,570 NARRATOR: Renewable energy is being embraced as a real alternative to fossil fuels. 507 00:32:28,196 --> 00:32:34,702 As their costs plummet, the movement continues to grow and many in America's 508 00:32:34,786 --> 00:32:38,539 heartland are reaping the benefits. 509 00:32:42,543 --> 00:32:44,170 (mooing). 510 00:32:50,259 --> 00:32:52,470 HOGG (off screen): Iowa is a very beautiful state. 511 00:32:52,553 --> 00:32:55,056 Contrary to what most people think, it's not flat. 512 00:32:55,556 --> 00:32:58,935 It's got rolling, beautiful hills, it's a very green state in the summer. 513 00:33:00,853 --> 00:33:02,480 We have great communities; 514 00:33:02,563 --> 00:33:04,565 we have great people, very friendly. 515 00:33:06,693 --> 00:33:09,195 JOHANNSEN: Politically, Iowa's been really interesting. 516 00:33:09,278 --> 00:33:12,615 It's been a purple state for a really long time. 517 00:33:12,699 --> 00:33:15,868 It voted for Al Gore, George W. Bush, 518 00:33:15,952 --> 00:33:19,789 voted for Obama twice and then went for Trump. 519 00:33:21,374 --> 00:33:24,168 HOGG: People like to be independent, self-reliant. 520 00:33:24,252 --> 00:33:27,547 Agriculture is the backbone of the state. 521 00:33:27,630 --> 00:33:32,176 It's just an incredibly important industry, economically, to our state, 522 00:33:32,719 --> 00:33:37,098 but it's much more than economics, it's about culture and it really is something 523 00:33:37,181 --> 00:33:40,309 that we take great pride in. 524 00:33:42,228 --> 00:33:46,357 YODER: I have probably a herd of 60 cows, with 50 milking at any time. 525 00:33:47,859 --> 00:33:50,653 It's a hard way to make a living and a good way to raise a family. 526 00:33:55,241 --> 00:33:57,910 I was born in Kalona here. 527 00:33:57,994 --> 00:34:01,539 My parents and grandparents were all farmers. 528 00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:05,126 MCKENNA (off screen): Kalona is a small community. 529 00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:08,796 You know, when I took the job I really didn't know much about the history 530 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,673 of the background here. 531 00:34:10,757 --> 00:34:12,592 You know, people don't move from here. 532 00:34:12,675 --> 00:34:15,636 They know their cousins and their cousins' cousins. 533 00:34:16,220 --> 00:34:18,097 So you've got to watch who you talk to. 534 00:34:18,181 --> 00:34:20,433 Everybody knows everybody. 535 00:34:21,684 --> 00:34:23,936 We're a small rural electric co-op. 536 00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:28,024 The co-op's owned by the people and we have 620 customers. 537 00:34:28,941 --> 00:34:31,861 This is the shop of the hundred-year-old co-op. 538 00:34:33,571 --> 00:34:36,407 Yeah. These are just all our customers. 539 00:34:36,491 --> 00:34:38,618 HOGG (off screen): Rural electric co-ops were a creation of the 540 00:34:38,701 --> 00:34:40,369 New Deal to make sure that 541 00:34:40,453 --> 00:34:44,916 electricity would be extended to people in small rural communities where previously 542 00:34:44,999 --> 00:34:48,127 they didn't have electricity. 543 00:34:48,544 --> 00:34:53,216 In Iowa, rural electric co-ops provide electricity for about one eighth of 544 00:34:53,299 --> 00:34:58,346 the state's population and Warren has taken his rural electric co-op and 545 00:34:58,429 --> 00:35:03,726 been a solar energy leader representing a conservative community in Iowa. 546 00:35:05,228 --> 00:35:07,939 MCKENNA (off screen): Initially we took an early vision to cut our outside energy 547 00:35:08,022 --> 00:35:09,690 purchases by 25%. 548 00:35:11,025 --> 00:35:14,403 Solar kind of popped into the picture in 2008. 549 00:35:14,487 --> 00:35:16,155 We wanted to sell one panel. 550 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,992 If you wanted one panel, you could call us and we'll just try this. 551 00:35:20,493 --> 00:35:25,289 Well, in the first week the flyer went in the bill, we sold twice the number of 552 00:35:25,373 --> 00:35:29,377 panels that we planned for. 553 00:35:29,961 --> 00:35:35,258 So with Leighton, some solar had started to build out around him and he decided, 554 00:35:35,341 --> 00:35:36,843 hey, this would work. 555 00:35:36,926 --> 00:35:40,138 So he tried one array and then next thing you know they're putting in two or three 556 00:35:40,221 --> 00:35:43,057 and those aren't cheap arrays. 557 00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:45,893 When you're a farmer, you spend that kind of money, it has to work 558 00:35:45,977 --> 00:35:48,646 and that's why they come here. 559 00:35:48,729 --> 00:35:51,440 YODER (off screen): We use a lot of electricity on a dairy farm. 560 00:35:51,524 --> 00:35:53,943 You use it to cool the milk for the cows. 561 00:35:54,026 --> 00:35:57,738 You use it to run the milking machines and a lot of motors that you have. 562 00:35:59,282 --> 00:36:03,744 We have it fixed here with our little cooperative that it pays you to have solar energy. 563 00:36:05,413 --> 00:36:10,293 You're always looking to cut some more costs so you have some profits left over. 564 00:36:11,586 --> 00:36:14,005 Most people are green, that kind of green. 565 00:36:15,381 --> 00:36:17,550 MCKENNA (off screen): You get this "A-ha" moment when somebody comes in, 566 00:36:17,633 --> 00:36:20,011 that's what you, your perspective, 567 00:36:20,094 --> 00:36:23,097 you think they're very, very conservative politically and 568 00:36:24,223 --> 00:36:26,142 yet then they buy into this. 569 00:36:29,812 --> 00:36:32,106 Once our solar started to grow around here, 570 00:36:32,190 --> 00:36:35,193 Ryan from the henhouse had approached us on solar. 571 00:36:36,777 --> 00:36:39,614 MILLER (off screen): Here at Farmers Hen House we're a specialty egg company, 572 00:36:39,697 --> 00:36:43,451 so we produce and distribute organic and free-range eggs. 573 00:36:44,410 --> 00:36:48,956 We process anywhere from 900,000 to a million eggs a day, which is a lot. 574 00:36:49,790 --> 00:36:54,462 Energy is one of our large costs of operation, but all the power all the time it's 575 00:36:54,545 --> 00:36:57,965 100% from us here and is completely solar. 576 00:36:58,883 --> 00:37:02,845 When the solar field was first built it was the largest solar field in Iowa. 577 00:37:04,138 --> 00:37:08,184 MCKENNA (off screen): Locally we generate 20% on average for the year with solar. 578 00:37:08,976 --> 00:37:12,313 A lot of Sundays we're 100% solar. 579 00:37:13,522 --> 00:37:16,984 HOGG: Warren has worked with that community and they are leading the way. 580 00:37:17,818 --> 00:37:22,156 Other rural electric co-ops have stepped up and have invested in solar power. 581 00:37:22,865 --> 00:37:28,037 NARRATOR: Across the country, from North Carolina to Texas, nearly 200 rural electric 582 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,958 co-ops have embraced renewable energy and it's paying off. 583 00:37:32,875 --> 00:37:36,963 And solar is not the only renewable that's being adopted in Iowa. 584 00:37:37,046 --> 00:37:40,883 Wind energy has become a real powerhouse. 585 00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:46,722 Iowa currently gets 37% of its electricity from renewables. 586 00:37:46,806 --> 00:37:49,892 If every other state did the same, the reduced emissions would get the 587 00:37:49,976 --> 00:37:54,772 U.S. nearly all the way to its 2025 Paris goals. 588 00:37:54,855 --> 00:37:57,900 BYERS: Iowa is number one in the country in terms of percentage of electricity 589 00:37:57,984 --> 00:37:59,277 that's generated by wind. 590 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,488 And we've had major investments by our utility companies. 591 00:38:02,571 --> 00:38:08,327 Just in June of 2018, MidAmerican Energy announced an additional $900 million 592 00:38:08,411 --> 00:38:12,415 in wind generation investment here in Iowa. 593 00:38:12,748 --> 00:38:15,459 And with that investment, that raises their total investment 594 00:38:15,543 --> 00:38:19,005 in wind energy to almost 13 billion. 595 00:38:19,088 --> 00:38:23,843 So all these massive investments in wind energy have been significant drivers 596 00:38:23,926 --> 00:38:26,095 in terms of attracting the tech industry. 597 00:38:26,178 --> 00:38:30,641 Within the last few years, Microsoft and Facebook created data centers in this region 598 00:38:30,725 --> 00:38:34,603 and just most recently Apple announced a data center investment 599 00:38:34,687 --> 00:38:36,564 here in Central Iowa. 600 00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:40,359 JANOUS (off screen): A single data center is about the size of four football fields 601 00:38:40,443 --> 00:38:42,069 and they consume a lot of energy. 602 00:38:42,153 --> 00:38:45,823 One of the things that led Microsoft to Iowa was the renewable energy resource 603 00:38:47,074 --> 00:38:48,451 that's available there. 604 00:38:48,534 --> 00:38:51,662 JACKSON (off screen): Clean power these days is actually cheaper in a lot of places. 605 00:38:51,746 --> 00:38:56,667 So it was really important for Apple because our goal is to make sure that this is 606 00:38:56,751 --> 00:38:58,502 sustainable in every way. 607 00:38:58,586 --> 00:39:01,255 And economic sustainability is one of those ways. 608 00:39:02,256 --> 00:39:04,633 LUBBER (off screen): There are hundreds of companies saying we are going 609 00:39:04,717 --> 00:39:07,470 to build our goals around staying in the Paris Agreement 610 00:39:07,553 --> 00:39:11,098 to address climate change and go into 100% renewables. 611 00:39:11,932 --> 00:39:15,811 There are also hundreds of financial leaders and investors who are putting 612 00:39:15,895 --> 00:39:20,232 nearly a trillion dollars' worth of commitments into clean energy and clean 613 00:39:20,316 --> 00:39:22,610 transportation, in innovative technologies. 614 00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:28,115 And those are people who aren't making economic commitments because they think 615 00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:29,658 they're going to lose money. 616 00:39:29,742 --> 00:39:31,952 They're in it to make money and that's a good thing. 617 00:39:32,536 --> 00:39:35,873 This is about building our economy. 618 00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:40,920 BYERS: People in Iowa are very proud of what's happened with the wind energy industry and 619 00:39:41,003 --> 00:39:44,090 what it's meant in terms of our ability to diversify our economy and we've really 620 00:39:44,173 --> 00:39:48,010 focused on making this a place where people want to be and have great opportunities. 621 00:39:49,804 --> 00:39:51,597 FAITH (off screen): Pretty much all through high school it's kind of 622 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,474 you're given a little bit of a negative aspect on 623 00:39:53,557 --> 00:39:55,393 like college cause you're told you're going 624 00:39:55,476 --> 00:39:57,978 to have so much debt, you're going to have to be getting loans, 625 00:39:58,062 --> 00:39:59,980 you're going to have to be paying for all of this and 626 00:40:00,064 --> 00:40:02,775 you're probably not going to get a job right as soon as you're done with college. 627 00:40:02,858 --> 00:40:04,902 But as far as like wind energy, 628 00:40:04,985 --> 00:40:06,695 my loans will be covered because as soon as I'm 629 00:40:06,779 --> 00:40:09,907 out of school I'm almost guaranteed a job. 630 00:40:09,990 --> 00:40:12,660 DAN: We have a two-year program and it results in an associate in 631 00:40:12,743 --> 00:40:14,995 applied science degree in wind technology. 632 00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:18,999 And my daughter, Faith, is actually interested in technology fields and 633 00:40:19,083 --> 00:40:22,128 so she made the decision that wind was where she wanted to be. 634 00:40:22,211 --> 00:40:24,880 She's always been one of those people that likes excitement 635 00:40:24,964 --> 00:40:28,134 and likes to do things that are a little bit different. 636 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,470 FAITH (off screen): I have a few friends that are girls that are 637 00:40:31,554 --> 00:40:34,140 getting interested in it because I hype it up a lot. 638 00:40:34,807 --> 00:40:36,892 DAN: We're going to go ahead, and we have the tower shut down right now, 639 00:40:36,976 --> 00:40:39,520 we're going to go ahead and plan to bring our bags up the tower. 640 00:40:39,603 --> 00:40:41,647 Make sure the equipment's all safe and stowed. 641 00:40:41,730 --> 00:40:46,068 JESSIE: I'm passionate about renewable energy and a cleaner earth and job growth 642 00:40:46,527 --> 00:40:49,613 is 100% so that's job security. 643 00:40:50,156 --> 00:40:55,870 It's just everything about this field seemed to kind of fit with me and my lifestyle. 644 00:41:03,002 --> 00:41:07,298 Going up our turbine the first time was a little nerve wracking, 645 00:41:10,259 --> 00:41:15,890 but you just kind of power through it and you get so used to it 646 00:41:16,390 --> 00:41:19,143 and then once you get to the top, it makes it so worth it. 647 00:41:21,729 --> 00:41:24,523 DAN (off screen): If the United States had an energy goal of 20% 648 00:41:24,607 --> 00:41:27,610 of our energy nationwide being drawn from wind energy, 649 00:41:27,693 --> 00:41:31,697 we'll need about 230,000 people supporting this industry 650 00:41:31,780 --> 00:41:34,700 and we just broke over 100,000. 651 00:41:34,783 --> 00:41:39,246 This is an opportunity that hasn't been available in America for a long, long time. 652 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:43,501 Our students are walking out with a two-year associate in applied science degree 653 00:41:43,584 --> 00:41:46,754 and they're making $50-90,000 right out the door. 654 00:41:47,254 --> 00:41:51,300 It's very rare that you have anything on an industrial or utility scale that doesn't 655 00:41:51,383 --> 00:41:55,304 really have a downside, so we create lots of jobs, we're really good for the 656 00:41:55,387 --> 00:41:59,016 environment, and we produce the kind of energy that gets us to that next best idea 657 00:41:59,099 --> 00:42:03,562 because we can do what the coal-fired and gas-fired plants do without 658 00:42:03,646 --> 00:42:06,565 having all the nasty side effects. 659 00:42:08,275 --> 00:42:12,279 GRASSLEY: There's just no way that I would have predicted all of these things about 660 00:42:12,363 --> 00:42:16,325 wind energy would turn out to be so good for jobs in rural America. 661 00:42:18,327 --> 00:42:23,415 It's projected in a few years we could have 17,000 jobs connected 662 00:42:23,916 --> 00:42:26,627 with wind energy in Iowa. 663 00:42:27,002 --> 00:42:30,965 NARRATOR: In 2017, there were approximately 10.3 million people employed 664 00:42:31,048 --> 00:42:33,467 in the renewable energy industry worldwide. 665 00:42:34,635 --> 00:42:38,264 Nearly 800,000 of those jobs were in the U.S., 666 00:42:38,347 --> 00:42:41,892 which is 15 times more than coal mining jobs. 667 00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:46,188 This trend is in part due to the plummeting cost of renewables, 668 00:42:46,272 --> 00:42:48,857 but despite the continuing growth in this sector, 669 00:42:48,941 --> 00:42:53,487 the Trump administration aims to prop up fossil fuels including coal. 670 00:42:54,488 --> 00:42:57,658 PRESIDENT TRUMP: Today I'm taking bold action to follow through on that promise; 671 00:42:57,741 --> 00:43:01,620 my administration is putting an end to the war on coal. 672 00:43:02,329 --> 00:43:04,915 REPORTER (over TV): Well the Trump administration is expected to announce a plan 673 00:43:04,999 --> 00:43:09,044 today to roll back rules on coal-fired power plants in an effort to 674 00:43:09,128 --> 00:43:11,338 revive the coal industry. 675 00:43:11,422 --> 00:43:14,466 CLEETUS (off screen): The Trump administration is now trying, in all sorts of ways, 676 00:43:15,009 --> 00:43:19,305 to prop up the coal industry, and by the coal industry, this is not about coal workers, 677 00:43:20,014 --> 00:43:23,100 this is about coal CEOs and their profits. 678 00:43:23,183 --> 00:43:29,106 MURRAY: The world needs our coal and we will do just fine if we get rid of the 679 00:43:29,189 --> 00:43:32,901 regulations and get the government out of picking winners and losers. 680 00:43:33,694 --> 00:43:36,655 HOLDEN: Bob Murray, the Executive of Murray Energy, one of the biggest coal 681 00:43:36,739 --> 00:43:41,327 companies in the country, has sent over multiple documents to the White House and to 682 00:43:41,410 --> 00:43:44,955 various agencies basically laying out what he wants 683 00:43:45,039 --> 00:43:46,957 to happen in the regulatory world. 684 00:43:47,041 --> 00:43:50,711 And one of those memos he had sixteen recommendations, including exiting the 685 00:43:50,794 --> 00:43:55,799 Paris Agreement, and the administration has either started or completed nearly 686 00:43:55,883 --> 00:43:58,969 everything on that list. 687 00:43:59,053 --> 00:44:02,765 CLEETUS: This is deeply harmful to the interest of the American public and while 688 00:44:02,848 --> 00:44:07,936 there is some attention to it in the media, what I'm worried about is that so many 689 00:44:08,020 --> 00:44:11,357 of these things are happening under the radar. 690 00:44:12,483 --> 00:44:15,486 NARRATOR: While the Trump Administration works to boost the fossil fuel industry, 691 00:44:16,487 --> 00:44:20,741 climate change resulting from the burning of those fuels is increasingly being felt, 692 00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:24,578 including in Iowa, the breadbasket of the world. 693 00:44:25,454 --> 00:44:27,873 HOGG (off screen): We have got to safeguard our farms from 694 00:44:27,956 --> 00:44:30,417 climate-related disasters in the future. 695 00:44:31,585 --> 00:44:35,422 Iowa is the food reservoir for the world. 696 00:44:35,506 --> 00:44:39,009 When there are people who have crop failures and they're facing very serious problems, 697 00:44:39,093 --> 00:44:43,180 we're very proud of the fact that we have surplus to export. 698 00:44:43,514 --> 00:44:47,393 And it's a really important role that we play in the world. 699 00:44:47,726 --> 00:44:53,816 What happens if we can't keep up with production because of climate related catastrophes? 700 00:44:54,191 --> 00:44:56,110 Big drought, big flood. 701 00:44:56,193 --> 00:45:02,533 If we were to have a catastrophic multi-year crop failure in Iowa, 702 00:45:02,616 --> 00:45:07,913 it would be utterly devastating for the world and we've seen more than a 40% 703 00:45:07,996 --> 00:45:12,251 increase in large precipitation events in Iowa, 704 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,587 and we had the flood of 2008 here in Cedar Rapids. 705 00:45:15,671 --> 00:45:19,133 REPORTER (over TV): 20,000 people have been evacuated from the area. 706 00:45:19,216 --> 00:45:22,803 More than 400 city blocks are still underwater. 707 00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:27,641 HOGG (off screen): 15 inches of rain over the entire Cedar River Basin over two weeks. 708 00:45:27,725 --> 00:45:33,439 And we had a flood stage of 31 feet, more than 10 feet higher than any previous flood. 709 00:45:36,066 --> 00:45:37,568 It's just unheard of. 710 00:45:37,651 --> 00:45:41,113 Other communities, up river, it was worse. 711 00:45:44,742 --> 00:45:46,452 SWINTON (off screen): So, okay. 712 00:45:48,746 --> 00:45:51,749 This is the marker I wanted you to see. 713 00:45:52,374 --> 00:45:55,627 This is a marker that we put up for the flood of 2008. 714 00:45:55,711 --> 00:45:58,088 This is how high the water got. 715 00:45:58,172 --> 00:46:00,174 Now I'm, I'm six feet tall, so this shows ya. 716 00:46:00,257 --> 00:46:03,802 This comes up to my, to my shoulders and this is how deep it was. 717 00:46:09,808 --> 00:46:15,105 VANCE: This was the garage, the closet, there's a electrical panel and furnace. 718 00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:23,530 We had six and a half foot of water on the main level of the house for over a week. 719 00:46:23,989 --> 00:46:28,076 Stuff that was in our bedroom wound up in the garage and stuff that was in the garage 720 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:32,164 wound up in the bedroom and then lots of it just floated away 721 00:46:32,873 --> 00:46:36,877 and I imagine that's in Louisiana now. 722 00:46:37,544 --> 00:46:41,215 Yeah, it's kind of spooky being in here. 723 00:46:43,342 --> 00:46:48,055 In 2008, I wasn't going to rebuild my house and then everybody said, well, 724 00:46:48,138 --> 00:46:49,848 that'll never happen again. 725 00:46:49,932 --> 00:46:56,355 It's never happened in 150 years, so we did, but then in 2016 it did it again. 726 00:46:58,315 --> 00:47:01,401 REPORTER (over TV): Right now thousands of Iowans have packed their belongings and 727 00:47:01,485 --> 00:47:05,280 evacuated and can only hope that their home is spared by the rising floodwater. 728 00:47:07,491 --> 00:47:11,495 VANCE: It's kind of like playing poker and I lost. 729 00:47:14,915 --> 00:47:19,670 SWINTON (off camera): We basically had two 500-year floods within eight years. 730 00:47:20,003 --> 00:47:24,967 Now we're thinking, well, now we need to do something because these 500-year floods 731 00:47:25,050 --> 00:47:27,636 aren't happening every 500 years. 732 00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:31,473 They're happening with more frequency. 733 00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:36,395 The rain is so much heavier, so rather than get four or five-inch rains, 734 00:47:36,478 --> 00:47:39,064 now we'll get a 14-inch rain. 735 00:47:41,149 --> 00:47:45,571 TAKLE: What's causing most of our flooding is driven by the fact that the Gulf of Mexico, 736 00:47:45,654 --> 00:47:47,906 where we get a lot of our moisture in the spring and early summer, 737 00:47:47,990 --> 00:47:49,741 is getting warmer. 738 00:47:49,825 --> 00:47:51,368 The more we heat the atmosphere, 739 00:47:51,451 --> 00:47:54,621 the more we evaporate water from the oceans. 740 00:47:54,705 --> 00:47:57,875 When we increase the amount of water in the atmosphere, 741 00:47:57,958 --> 00:48:00,043 to the atmosphere, that's like fuel. 742 00:48:00,127 --> 00:48:04,423 That's like gasoline almost and that's what leads to the intensity of these heavy 743 00:48:04,506 --> 00:48:07,676 rain events that we're seeing now. 744 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,100 VANCE (off screen): I don't think I'm going to be leaving anytime soon. 745 00:48:24,818 --> 00:48:30,115 Especially in times like this you need a support system and family 746 00:48:30,574 --> 00:48:32,910 and friends have been that. 747 00:48:32,993 --> 00:48:37,164 You know, they've stepped up way beyond my own expectations. 748 00:48:37,247 --> 00:48:40,959 They didn't need to take time out of their life to come and help set rafters 749 00:48:41,043 --> 00:48:44,087 or stuff but they did. 750 00:48:44,504 --> 00:48:47,507 HOGG (off screen): It is amazing to this day that nobody died in the flood and 751 00:48:47,591 --> 00:48:50,886 that's actually kind of a testament to Iowans. 752 00:48:50,969 --> 00:48:54,640 People want to be involved. 753 00:48:55,515 --> 00:48:58,644 People want to take tangible action. 754 00:48:58,727 --> 00:49:04,733 They want to help, and I've said since that, we have to have the same spirit 755 00:49:05,776 --> 00:49:10,989 of the sandbag about safeguarding our people and our property from future disasters, 756 00:49:11,865 --> 00:49:16,161 and that includes getting our arms around this climate problem. 757 00:49:17,412 --> 00:49:23,043 The flood of 2008 raised the awareness of climate change in Iowa and I hope we don't have 758 00:49:23,126 --> 00:49:26,380 to wait for everybody to feel the disaster before we decided to take action as 759 00:49:26,463 --> 00:49:28,507 a country on climate change. 760 00:49:29,174 --> 00:49:31,468 NARRATOR: The earth's average temperature has risen approximately 761 00:49:31,551 --> 00:49:34,304 one degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, 762 00:49:34,972 --> 00:49:38,433 which has created the impacts being felt today. 763 00:49:38,517 --> 00:49:41,645 The Paris agreement aims to keep global average temperature 764 00:49:41,728 --> 00:49:44,523 well below 2 degrees Celsius. 765 00:49:44,606 --> 00:49:48,360 But current international pledges won't get us there. 766 00:49:48,443 --> 00:49:51,822 So without increased commitments and fulfilling them, 767 00:49:51,905 --> 00:49:56,451 we could see a projected rise of as much as 3.2 degrees by the end of the century. 768 00:49:57,869 --> 00:50:02,416 But if U.S. states, cities and businesses cut U.S. emissions by 2% a year, 769 00:50:03,834 --> 00:50:08,046 they would achieve more than a 75% reduction by 2050. 770 00:50:08,505 --> 00:50:12,676 This would put the U.S. on track to meet its goals under the Paris agreement, 771 00:50:12,759 --> 00:50:16,930 helping avoid a world dangerously altered by climate change. 772 00:50:17,014 --> 00:50:18,932 MANN: You know, what does the world start to look like? 773 00:50:19,016 --> 00:50:20,726 We don't have to use our imagination because Hollywood 774 00:50:20,809 --> 00:50:23,020 has already given us those depictions. 775 00:50:23,103 --> 00:50:26,606 Some of the dystopian visions of the future that Hollywood has provided are 776 00:50:26,690 --> 00:50:30,068 not unlike the actual scenarios that national security experts 777 00:50:30,152 --> 00:50:32,612 are gaming out as a worst-case scenario. 778 00:50:33,613 --> 00:50:36,491 GOODMAN: We know that climate change is a threat multiplier 779 00:50:36,575 --> 00:50:38,285 for instability around the world. 780 00:50:38,368 --> 00:50:41,997 We've seen that it's even now a catalyst for conflict in various regions of 781 00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:46,960 the world across the Middle East, across Africa, across parts of Asia. 782 00:50:47,961 --> 00:50:52,632 We're seeing increased instability and unrest fomented by extreme storms, 783 00:50:53,759 --> 00:50:56,720 lack of water, too much rain, drought. 784 00:50:57,679 --> 00:51:01,349 All of these factors are affecting the stability of the planet 785 00:51:01,808 --> 00:51:03,477 and people where they live. 786 00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:07,230 REPORTER (over TV): More than 103 million Americans are under heat alert. 787 00:51:07,314 --> 00:51:10,275 MANN (off screen): We've seen devastating heat waves in recent years, 788 00:51:10,358 --> 00:51:12,986 not just around the country but around the world. 789 00:51:13,612 --> 00:51:18,158 REPORTER (over TV): In India, more than 2,000 people have died from the extreme heat. 790 00:51:18,241 --> 00:51:21,036 MANN (off screen): These are things that we predicted decades ago and 791 00:51:21,119 --> 00:51:23,705 now in every sector of our lives, 792 00:51:23,789 --> 00:51:27,167 climate change constitutes an existential threat. 793 00:51:28,293 --> 00:51:31,671 And people everywhere are dealing with it on the front lines. 794 00:51:50,190 --> 00:51:53,276 HYATT (off screen): When I was in my 20s, I got into the business as a farrier. 795 00:51:56,696 --> 00:52:00,534 And so, went to horseshoeing school and have been doing it ever since. 796 00:52:02,327 --> 00:52:04,830 Good boy. Good boy. 797 00:52:06,957 --> 00:52:09,668 I feel like I work for the animal first and the owner second, 798 00:52:09,751 --> 00:52:12,379 so I have an obligation to take care of them. 799 00:52:19,344 --> 00:52:22,013 HYATT (off screen): I was coming back from LA with my helper when we first heard 800 00:52:22,097 --> 00:52:25,142 about the fire and driving 801 00:52:25,225 --> 00:52:27,936 into Santa Paula and I could see it. 802 00:52:28,645 --> 00:52:31,106 FIREMAN (over radio): We have a fire that's established behind multiple residences. 803 00:52:31,189 --> 00:52:34,776 Actually the fire is right near the power lines there. 804 00:52:34,860 --> 00:52:38,071 FIREMAN 2 (over radio): Engine 31 is fighting that fire right now. 805 00:52:38,155 --> 00:52:41,825 FIREMAN 3 (over radio): You're going to need other resources to head west. 806 00:52:41,908 --> 00:52:44,244 MAN (off screen): Holy (bleep). 807 00:52:44,327 --> 00:52:48,999 Get out of here. Go, go. Get out. It's time to go. 808 00:52:54,838 --> 00:52:57,674 HYATT (off screen): We thought we had all this time to get in, 809 00:52:57,757 --> 00:53:00,302 get the animals out and we thought we probably 810 00:53:00,385 --> 00:53:02,721 had at least an hour. 811 00:53:02,804 --> 00:53:05,015 Well, I was wrong. 812 00:53:05,849 --> 00:53:09,769 I called my daughters and asked if they could meet me at the house. 813 00:53:09,853 --> 00:53:13,190 I needed all the help I could get to make sure we got all the animals out. 814 00:53:14,357 --> 00:53:17,652 I have a three-horse trailer and I had seven horses there. 815 00:53:19,196 --> 00:53:23,617 The first load of horses, I got my girls' ponies out and my boyfriend's horses out. 816 00:53:24,492 --> 00:53:27,454 Took them to the fairgrounds where everyone would evacuate their animals to. 817 00:53:28,371 --> 00:53:31,499 This fire happened so fast, hundreds of horses needed to be evacuated. 818 00:53:32,125 --> 00:53:35,170 There was just a mass exodus of animals. 819 00:53:35,253 --> 00:53:38,506 I'd remember telling the girls, if we can't get the horses out, 820 00:53:38,590 --> 00:53:41,009 just get them across the bridge and let them go. 821 00:53:41,092 --> 00:53:43,970 At least they have a chance. 822 00:53:45,096 --> 00:53:48,516 I kind of just had to not think about it and think okay, they're going to be fine. 823 00:53:48,892 --> 00:53:50,393 They're going to be fine. 824 00:53:50,477 --> 00:53:55,357 We got back to the mouth of the canyon and the fire is going over the road. 825 00:53:57,150 --> 00:54:01,196 I just had to trust that everything was going to be okay. 826 00:54:01,738 --> 00:54:05,951 A gal who was still out in the canyon saw my three horses trotting up the road 827 00:54:06,034 --> 00:54:11,081 in the smoke and she was able to get my horses in her horse trailer. 828 00:54:22,050 --> 00:54:24,261 HYATT (off screen): Not a lot survived that fire. 829 00:54:24,344 --> 00:54:29,683 It was, it burned so hot that everything just liquified. 830 00:54:31,393 --> 00:54:34,521 To not be able to save anything was just really hard. 831 00:54:35,397 --> 00:54:40,360 Generations of collections that, you know, that my, my grandfather started. 832 00:54:41,903 --> 00:54:44,114 That just broke my heart. 833 00:54:44,197 --> 00:54:47,826 You know each month that goes by it gets, it's supposed to get a little easier. 834 00:54:48,743 --> 00:54:50,954 But um. 835 00:54:54,624 --> 00:54:58,378 NARRATOR: As average global temperatures have risen due to climate change, 836 00:54:58,461 --> 00:55:01,881 so has the number and frequency of large wildfires. 837 00:55:04,050 --> 00:55:08,847 Since the 70s, the wildfire season has grown from five months to almost year-round. 838 00:55:10,307 --> 00:55:15,312 Scientists suggest this is in part due to the increased melting of sea ice in the 839 00:55:15,395 --> 00:55:19,316 Arctic that is changing the Northern Hemisphere Jetstream, which has veered north in the 840 00:55:19,399 --> 00:55:24,112 Western U.S., intensifying drought and dry conditions in California. 841 00:55:24,904 --> 00:55:29,617 BROWN: The drought dries up the soil, dries up the vegetation, 842 00:55:30,327 --> 00:55:34,581 so now the moisture that used to prevent forest fires is now turned into 843 00:55:34,664 --> 00:55:37,667 an accelerant of forest fires. 844 00:55:37,751 --> 00:55:39,919 REPORTER (over TV): The fires are creating their own weather. 845 00:55:40,003 --> 00:55:44,549 Firenado spinning at 150 miles per hour, forcing immediate evacuation. 846 00:55:46,426 --> 00:55:50,555 NARRATOR: Such severe wildfires leave barren landscapes in their wake that 847 00:55:50,638 --> 00:55:53,183 are less able to absorb rainwater, 848 00:55:53,266 --> 00:55:56,102 creating an elevated risk of floods and mudslides. 849 00:55:56,770 --> 00:55:58,605 MAN: Oh my God! 850 00:55:58,688 --> 00:56:02,609 NARRATOR: The mudslides, combined with almost 9,000 wildfires that burned through 851 00:56:02,692 --> 00:56:09,074 California in 2017, took 65 lives and cost nearly 12 billion dollars in damages. 852 00:56:11,201 --> 00:56:15,830 Thousands of people were left without homes as the fires destroyed over a million acres 853 00:56:16,539 --> 00:56:19,709 and 10,000 structures throughout the state. 854 00:56:20,085 --> 00:56:23,588 MANN: California is on the front lines of dealing with the devastating impacts of 855 00:56:24,339 --> 00:56:25,715 climate change. 856 00:56:25,799 --> 00:56:29,844 The interesting thing is they're also on the frontlines of solving the problem. 857 00:56:30,845 --> 00:56:33,807 ROBERTS (off screen): It's got one of the most ambitious renewable mandates, 858 00:56:33,890 --> 00:56:35,517 50% by 2030, 859 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,937 and one of the most ambitious emission reduction goals and you know, 860 00:56:39,020 --> 00:56:40,647 it's leading on electric vehicles. 861 00:56:40,730 --> 00:56:42,774 It's leading on electricity storage. 862 00:56:42,857 --> 00:56:47,695 I think California is kind of giving other states a model to rally around, 863 00:56:49,531 --> 00:56:52,951 but the state is still funded by fossil fuels. 864 00:56:55,912 --> 00:56:57,622 GARCETTI (off screen): A lot of people think of Los Angeles 865 00:56:57,705 --> 00:56:59,374 as Hollywood, Tinseltown. 866 00:56:59,457 --> 00:57:01,793 They think it's an entertainment capital, which it is now, 867 00:57:01,876 --> 00:57:04,796 but we weren't built because of the entertainment industry. 868 00:57:04,879 --> 00:57:07,215 We were an oil town. 869 00:57:07,298 --> 00:57:11,344 The third largest oil field in America is right underneath us right now. 870 00:57:13,596 --> 00:57:17,100 SARMIENTO: California across the country and around the world is seen 871 00:57:17,183 --> 00:57:20,270 as a climate leader, as an environmental leader. 872 00:57:20,353 --> 00:57:25,024 However, what we're seeing on the ground is continued approval 873 00:57:25,108 --> 00:57:29,320 and permitting of fossil fuel projects in local communities. 874 00:57:39,038 --> 00:57:42,125 GUZMAN (off screen): I've basically lived in Wilmington my entire life. 875 00:57:42,917 --> 00:57:46,546 We have the oil field located right next to my house and right across the 876 00:57:46,629 --> 00:57:49,549 street from my grandma's house. 877 00:57:50,842 --> 00:57:52,969 Me and my brothers and like the neighborhood kids, 878 00:57:53,052 --> 00:57:55,555 we grew up like right next to this oil field, 879 00:57:55,638 --> 00:57:59,476 we'd literally climb this tree when we were little, we didn't know what it was. 880 00:57:59,559 --> 00:58:02,270 So we would just play in there. 881 00:58:03,188 --> 00:58:06,566 Living next door to this, we experienced a lot of sulfuric fumes. 882 00:58:07,442 --> 00:58:09,068 There's like a thickness in the air. 883 00:58:09,152 --> 00:58:12,864 And I realized like, oh, it's the fumes from the oil rigs. 884 00:58:12,947 --> 00:58:14,324 Sometimes you get headaches. 885 00:58:14,407 --> 00:58:17,869 I remember when we were younger, my brother would get nosebleeds for no reason. 886 00:58:18,661 --> 00:58:20,914 And my grandma, she has a heart condition. 887 00:58:20,997 --> 00:58:25,877 I just, I don't want anyone else or anyone else's children to have to live near that. 888 00:58:32,217 --> 00:58:36,596 SARMIENTO (off screen): What we see here are historically disadvantaged and 889 00:58:36,679 --> 00:58:39,933 low-income communities of color impacted by toxic industries. 890 00:58:41,809 --> 00:58:45,605 We have high rates of asthma; we have high, high rates of cancer. 891 00:58:46,439 --> 00:58:48,566 We have high rates of leukemia. 892 00:58:48,650 --> 00:58:54,697 In the neighboring baseball field, we have seen a leukemia fundraiser poster go up one 893 00:58:55,114 --> 00:59:00,453 time after another and that's nothing any community should have to go through. 894 00:59:00,954 --> 00:59:04,666 Everyone has the right to breathe clean air. 895 00:59:04,749 --> 00:59:09,587 NARRATOR: A recent study found that people who live within 500 feet of oil and gas wells 896 00:59:09,671 --> 00:59:13,341 have an 8 times higher lifetime risk of cancer. 897 00:59:13,841 --> 00:59:17,720 Another study found that more than 17 and a half million people throughout the 898 00:59:17,804 --> 00:59:21,599 U.S. live within a mile of oil and gas infrastructure. 899 00:59:22,934 --> 00:59:25,353 ROBERTS (off screen): California is trying to juggle these things. 900 00:59:25,436 --> 00:59:28,898 They want the revenue from the fossil fuel sales, because if they keep it in the ground 901 00:59:29,566 --> 00:59:32,902 as the activist keeps saying, that's a huge chunk out of the state budget, 902 00:59:32,986 --> 00:59:35,446 which would harm renewable energy efforts. 903 00:59:35,530 --> 00:59:37,824 Right? So there's a real dilemma. 904 00:59:37,907 --> 00:59:40,827 BROWN (off screen): Most of the oil resources must be left in the ground. 905 00:59:41,703 --> 00:59:44,163 Now the question is how do we get there and how do we do that? 906 00:59:44,664 --> 00:59:49,460 And I think we can but we can only do it by accelerating the alternatives and 907 00:59:49,544 --> 00:59:53,923 changing the lifestyles and the way our economies are currently constituted. 908 00:59:55,341 --> 00:59:57,176 GARCETTI (off screen): You see increasingly here in LA, 909 00:59:57,260 --> 00:59:58,886 kind of a vision of the future, 910 00:59:58,970 --> 01:00:00,888 but also the challenge of the future. 911 01:00:00,972 --> 01:00:04,017 And, and for us that means our response has to be comprehensive as well. 912 01:00:07,020 --> 01:00:10,773 Probably what we're best known for is our soul-crushing traffic. 913 01:00:11,107 --> 01:00:14,569 We're the car capital of America, if not the world. 914 01:00:14,652 --> 01:00:17,447 GERRARD (off screen): Because of the history of smog in Los Angeles, 915 01:00:17,530 --> 01:00:22,577 California has been allowed to have stronger fuel economy standards for motor vehicles. 916 01:00:23,703 --> 01:00:28,041 But the Trump administration is moving to weaken the nationwide standards for 917 01:00:29,042 --> 01:00:34,422 motor vehicle emissions and is also moving to take away California's 918 01:00:34,505 --> 01:00:36,883 ability to set its own standards. 919 01:00:36,966 --> 01:00:39,427 REPORTER (over TV): The Trump administration is moving towards cutting 920 01:00:39,510 --> 01:00:43,431 tougher fuel standards, and challenging California which sets the toughest fuel 921 01:00:43,514 --> 01:00:46,351 standards in the country that 12 states currently follow. 922 01:00:47,435 --> 01:00:51,189 BROWN: The emissions from transportation, cars and trucks is going up and the 923 01:00:51,272 --> 01:00:56,402 federal government at the same time is now attacking our standards and is attempting 924 01:00:57,904 --> 01:01:00,907 to weaken them, and in effect, 925 01:01:00,990 --> 01:01:03,743 add more climate pollutants to the atmosphere. 926 01:01:04,494 --> 01:01:07,038 So that's a very bad idea and we're going to fight that, 927 01:01:07,121 --> 01:01:10,667 and I think we'll be very successful in stopping that. 928 01:01:11,042 --> 01:01:12,752 FABER-O'CONNOR (off screen): Transportation is about a third of our total 929 01:01:12,835 --> 01:01:14,754 greenhouse gas emissions in Los Angeles, 930 01:01:14,837 --> 01:01:19,759 and we know that in order to meet our climate goals and really uphold the 931 01:01:19,842 --> 01:01:22,553 Paris Climate Agreement, we have to decarbonize our transportation sector. 932 01:01:24,847 --> 01:01:27,767 GARCETTI (off screen): We now are looking to rebuild the most ambitious public transit 933 01:01:27,850 --> 01:01:29,435 system in the country. 934 01:01:29,519 --> 01:01:31,979 So voters passed a permanent tax on themselves that will build 935 01:01:32,063 --> 01:01:34,399 a new fifteen rapid transit lines. 936 01:01:34,482 --> 01:01:39,320 And I think most people don't know how important Los Angeles and Long Beach 937 01:01:39,904 --> 01:01:42,115 are to this nation's economy. 938 01:01:42,198 --> 01:01:46,744 They account for about 40% of all the seaborne goods that come into America. 939 01:01:46,828 --> 01:01:51,624 Those huge ships that feed our stores come in right here to Los Angeles, 940 01:01:51,708 --> 01:01:54,001 and each one of them is the equivalent of tens of thousands 941 01:01:54,085 --> 01:01:55,795 of greenhouse gas emissions. 942 01:01:55,878 --> 01:01:58,005 But we're taking aggressive actions. 943 01:01:58,089 --> 01:02:00,466 We want to go to zero emission ports. 944 01:02:00,550 --> 01:02:04,637 We see the technology in trucks coming, we see the new locomotives that are looking 945 01:02:04,721 --> 01:02:09,225 at pure electric power, and we're building out the infrastructure for these large 946 01:02:09,308 --> 01:02:11,978 ships to be able to plug in and go off of electric power. 947 01:02:13,646 --> 01:02:15,231 GARCETTI (off screen): And then the third thing is, 948 01:02:15,314 --> 01:02:18,693 we're trying to make sure everybody is a part of the solar economy. 949 01:02:19,277 --> 01:02:21,404 FABER-O'CONNOR: We have taken the bull by the horns. 950 01:02:21,487 --> 01:02:25,074 We're the number one solar city in America. 951 01:02:25,158 --> 01:02:28,119 Just in the city alone, basically on rooftops, 952 01:02:28,202 --> 01:02:31,789 we have enough solar to power over 82,000 homes. 953 01:02:33,249 --> 01:02:37,587 And equally important, we're making sure that we have programs that aren't just for 954 01:02:37,670 --> 01:02:41,090 the wealthiest of our residents, but everybody. 955 01:02:41,758 --> 01:02:44,510 So there's solar equity throughout Los Angeles. 956 01:02:53,352 --> 01:02:54,937 ANDRADE (off screen): Growing up, 957 01:02:55,021 --> 01:02:58,983 my role models were out there on the street, you know, 958 01:02:59,066 --> 01:03:02,737 especially in east LA, it's one of the largest gang-populated areas. 959 01:03:02,820 --> 01:03:05,448 So of course I'll be running around the streets at night, little teenager, 960 01:03:05,531 --> 01:03:07,533 little kid, not knowing any better. 961 01:03:07,617 --> 01:03:11,746 I had everything: guns, drugs, just getting in trouble, using. 962 01:03:13,206 --> 01:03:16,459 If I wasn't selling drugs, it's me robbing people or stealing from homes, 963 01:03:17,210 --> 01:03:18,795 breaking into them. 964 01:03:18,878 --> 01:03:21,380 And that's how it all started. 965 01:03:21,464 --> 01:03:25,051 May 10th, 2004, I went to prison for 10 years. 966 01:03:30,848 --> 01:03:32,558 I was 18 years old. 967 01:03:32,642 --> 01:03:35,478 Two strikes, I didn't expect to get home. 968 01:03:35,561 --> 01:03:38,856 So when that day finally happened, where, hey, you're getting released, 969 01:03:38,940 --> 01:03:41,067 to me it was surreal. 970 01:03:41,150 --> 01:03:45,488 This is finally happening, like I made it, you know, like God, after all this time. 971 01:03:47,490 --> 01:03:50,326 You know, I had nieces born, nephews born that I never even seen 972 01:03:50,409 --> 01:03:51,953 or met and you know what I mean? 973 01:03:52,036 --> 01:03:56,582 So that's just, yeah. 974 01:03:58,918 --> 01:04:01,796 Finally got to meet them when I got out. 975 01:04:05,633 --> 01:04:09,011 I literally thought I'd probably be back in prison or dead already. 976 01:04:09,095 --> 01:04:11,180 But then I got the opportunity with Homeboy Industries, 977 01:04:11,264 --> 01:04:13,683 which is the largest gang intervention program in the U.S. 978 01:04:14,475 --> 01:04:17,436 Solar happened to be one of the programs that was offered to me. 979 01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:19,897 And I said, yeah, sure, like, let's do this. 980 01:04:19,981 --> 01:04:22,024 And I was like, what's a solar panel? 981 01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:23,818 That's how it got started. 982 01:04:23,901 --> 01:04:25,361 I just fell in love with it. 983 01:04:25,444 --> 01:04:28,114 Now I'm the Volunteer Training Coordinator for Grid Alternatives, 984 01:04:28,197 --> 01:04:29,824 Greater Los Angeles. 985 01:04:29,907 --> 01:04:31,659 Salvador, what's goin' on, man? 986 01:04:31,742 --> 01:04:34,912 KADISH: Our mission is to bring the benefits of renewable energy technology 987 01:04:34,996 --> 01:04:36,539 to underserved communities. 988 01:04:36,622 --> 01:04:39,500 We're able to have people from the very communities we serve, 989 01:04:39,584 --> 01:04:42,753 come out and get job training on the installations themselves. 990 01:04:43,963 --> 01:04:47,884 I've worked with people who have come from prison and within, you know, 991 01:04:47,967 --> 01:04:50,678 a year or two, are in a management position at a residential solar company. 992 01:04:52,013 --> 01:04:54,765 You know, they're going from incarceration into being entrepreneurs. 993 01:04:55,474 --> 01:04:57,268 MAN: There's going to be a lot to learn today. 994 01:04:57,351 --> 01:04:59,937 We are going to be on sort of a steep pitched roof. 995 01:05:00,021 --> 01:05:02,148 So we definitely want to go at a safe pace. 996 01:05:02,231 --> 01:05:04,400 When in doubt, ask. 997 01:05:04,483 --> 01:05:08,154 ANDRADE (off screen): Last year we placed 87 individuals in solar careers. 998 01:05:08,237 --> 01:05:11,365 And honestly, they're dedicated because like myself, once I got released, 999 01:05:11,782 --> 01:05:13,117 I want to stay out of trouble. 1000 01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:14,577 I just want to work. 1001 01:05:14,660 --> 01:05:16,537 I've been out of prison five years. 1002 01:05:16,621 --> 01:05:19,290 And now everything I do is for my son. 1003 01:05:20,833 --> 01:05:23,586 I want him to have everything I didn't have in life. 1004 01:05:23,669 --> 01:05:25,838 I want him to have it. 1005 01:05:26,464 --> 01:05:30,217 FABER-O'CONNOR (off screen): In LA alone we have created 29,000 green jobs. 1006 01:05:30,843 --> 01:05:33,971 Over 80,000 solar jobs in the state. 1007 01:05:34,722 --> 01:05:36,474 There's such a big opportunity. 1008 01:05:36,557 --> 01:05:38,851 We're not afraid of this being a job killer. 1009 01:05:38,935 --> 01:05:43,064 This is a job creator and people are coming to Los Angeles, to California, 1010 01:05:43,522 --> 01:05:45,441 to be part of that revolution. 1011 01:05:46,192 --> 01:05:48,736 BROWN (off screen): With Trump saying he's going to pull out of Paris, 1012 01:05:48,819 --> 01:05:51,739 the next best thing is for states to take their 1013 01:05:51,822 --> 01:05:55,743 own action because the climate is changing, 1014 01:05:55,826 --> 01:06:01,457 there's real impacts in real time and this is an existential threat to the 1015 01:06:01,540 --> 01:06:04,710 wellbeing of everyone everywhere in the world. 1016 01:06:05,336 --> 01:06:07,505 NARRATOR: Since the announcement to withdraw from Paris, 1017 01:06:07,588 --> 01:06:11,384 states and governors around the country have passed legislation to join the 1018 01:06:11,467 --> 01:06:15,054 U.S. climate alliance and uphold the commitments of the Paris Climate Accord. 1019 01:06:16,889 --> 01:06:20,101 New Jersey recently introduced a bill to join the alliance, 1020 01:06:20,184 --> 01:06:24,271 which would bring its membership to 16 states plus Puerto Rico. 1021 01:06:24,355 --> 01:06:28,109 MUKHERJI (over PA): Mr. Speaker, this bill if passed and signed into law 1022 01:06:28,192 --> 01:06:30,319 will help protect generations to come. 1023 01:06:30,403 --> 01:06:32,947 MR. SPEAKER (over PA): Madam clerk open the machine for a vote. 1024 01:06:36,367 --> 01:06:39,370 Senate bill 598 having received 49 votes in the affirmative, 1025 01:06:39,453 --> 01:06:42,748 23 votes in the negative and zero abstentions, I declare the bill passed. 1026 01:06:43,290 --> 01:06:46,419 Let the bill take the usual course of passed bills. 1027 01:06:46,502 --> 01:06:49,714 NARRATOR: New Jersey's decision to join the U.S. Climate Alliance 1028 01:06:49,797 --> 01:06:53,426 was successful due to a change in New Jersey's leadership. 1029 01:06:53,509 --> 01:06:56,846 POTOSNAK: Right up there with California and New York, New Jersey's probably on target 1030 01:06:56,929 --> 01:06:58,723 to be the greenest state in America. 1031 01:06:58,806 --> 01:07:00,391 And that happened in just one election. 1032 01:07:00,474 --> 01:07:02,059 MURPHY: So help me God. 1033 01:07:02,143 --> 01:07:04,645 POTOSNAK: The difference between our new governor, Phil Murphy, 1034 01:07:04,729 --> 01:07:07,231 and Governor Chris Christie couldn't be more clear. 1035 01:07:07,773 --> 01:07:10,067 It's like night and day. 1036 01:07:10,901 --> 01:07:15,322 Following Hurricane Sandy, what we saw from Governor Christie was just ignoring the 1037 01:07:15,406 --> 01:07:19,285 causes of climate change and ignoring things that we can do 1038 01:07:19,368 --> 01:07:21,620 to be more resilient with natural systems. 1039 01:07:21,704 --> 01:07:23,080 CHRISTIE: It's not a crisis. 1040 01:07:23,164 --> 01:07:25,916 The climate's been changing forever and it will always change. 1041 01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,669 POTOSNAK (off screen): It was disappointing, but it was also wrong, 1042 01:07:28,753 --> 01:07:31,922 but I can tell you for a fact the people here in New Jersey, 1043 01:07:32,006 --> 01:07:35,176 they understand the connection. 1044 01:07:35,259 --> 01:07:38,304 We were very, very focused on making sure the next governor, 1045 01:07:38,387 --> 01:07:40,347 whoever was going to be elected, 1046 01:07:40,431 --> 01:07:45,102 was going to really have strong plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 1047 01:07:45,186 --> 01:07:49,106 MURPHY: A stronger and fairer New Jersey accepts the sad reality of climate change 1048 01:07:49,648 --> 01:07:54,278 and invests aggressively in renewable energy and it upholds the goals 1049 01:07:54,820 --> 01:07:56,906 of the Paris Climate Accord. 1050 01:07:56,989 --> 01:07:59,116 POTOSNAK (off screen): Since Governor Murphy has come into office, 1051 01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:02,661 we saw a whirlwind of action in a very short period of time. 1052 01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:06,082 And I think we can take it a step further, because setting the bar with Paris 1053 01:08:06,165 --> 01:08:11,712 is an important step, but I don't think anyone who sees a bar just wants to get there. 1054 01:08:12,088 --> 01:08:15,591 We want to go and reach even higher. 1055 01:08:15,674 --> 01:08:19,762 NARRATOR: The movement that's working across the country continues to gain momentum. 1056 01:08:20,096 --> 01:08:23,724 Since the days after the Trump announcement to leave the Paris Climate Accord, 1057 01:08:24,225 --> 01:08:28,938 the number of cities, states, businesses and organizations pledging to uphold the 1058 01:08:29,021 --> 01:08:31,232 agreement has more than doubled. 1059 01:08:31,899 --> 01:08:34,985 And with initiatives that are tracking the commitments for real change in 1060 01:08:35,069 --> 01:08:38,781 our energy future, the stakes and challenges couldn't be clearer. 1061 01:08:40,116 --> 01:08:43,994 But even in places grappling with the long legacy of fossil fuels, 1062 01:08:44,078 --> 01:08:47,832 commitments to a clean energy future are moving forward. 1063 01:08:48,290 --> 01:08:50,543 Regardless of federal inaction. 1064 01:08:52,044 --> 01:08:56,715 PEDUTO: I couldn't disagree with the president any stronger and I say that as 1065 01:08:56,799 --> 01:09:00,010 somebody who lived through the Pittsburgh of old. 1066 01:09:01,929 --> 01:09:05,432 Pittsburgh was the center of heavy industry. 1067 01:09:06,642 --> 01:09:09,937 Coal and steel became a part of its legacy. 1068 01:09:11,063 --> 01:09:14,650 It was a two-shirt town, meaning that if you worked in corporate 1069 01:09:14,733 --> 01:09:16,902 Pittsburgh in the 1940s, 1070 01:09:16,986 --> 01:09:20,990 you wore one shirt up until lunchtime and then you changed it because 1071 01:09:21,073 --> 01:09:25,452 of the amount of soot that would get on it. 1072 01:09:25,536 --> 01:09:30,624 During the 50s and the 60s, we were one of the wealthiest cities in the United States. 1073 01:09:33,836 --> 01:09:37,131 And then by 1979, it all collapsed. 1074 01:09:38,132 --> 01:09:44,305 Took 30 years between 1979 and 2009 to see this city come back. 1075 01:09:47,099 --> 01:09:52,104 ERVIN: The city had to reimagine itself as a knowledge economy where 1076 01:09:52,188 --> 01:09:57,193 healthcare and education and robotics really developed here and now we're starting 1077 01:09:57,276 --> 01:09:59,278 to see the fruits of those labors. 1078 01:09:59,361 --> 01:10:02,573 PEDUTO (off screen): There was a whole different part of Pittsburgh that was thinking 1079 01:10:02,656 --> 01:10:06,869 maybe our future doesn't necessarily have to be based upon the past. 1080 01:10:08,871 --> 01:10:12,541 And these were the people that were looking at technology and engineering 1081 01:10:12,625 --> 01:10:17,004 and understanding it wasn't steel, it was innovation that would be the 1082 01:10:17,087 --> 01:10:21,091 cornerstone from which we would build a new Pittsburgh. 1083 01:10:23,594 --> 01:10:27,514 ERVIN: And now we're in the position to reap some of the benefits of those seeds 1084 01:10:27,598 --> 01:10:30,684 that were sown and create the clean economy. 1085 01:10:30,768 --> 01:10:34,188 It's about changing building codes, how we plan our neighborhoods, 1086 01:10:34,271 --> 01:10:36,941 how we design our streets. 1087 01:10:37,024 --> 01:10:41,862 So whether you are developing new energy-efficient housing or you know, creating new, 1088 01:10:42,488 --> 01:10:46,825 clean energy generation systems, this is economic development. 1089 01:10:47,618 --> 01:10:49,662 This is innovation. 1090 01:10:50,079 --> 01:10:53,332 PEDUTO (off screen): And today we are fully committed to making that 1091 01:10:53,415 --> 01:10:56,710 transition to be at 100% renewable energy 1092 01:10:56,794 --> 01:10:59,797 at the city level, a 50% reduction in the amount of energy 1093 01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:03,801 we're using and a zero-landfill waste policy by 2030. 1094 01:11:06,011 --> 01:11:09,098 It's an ambitious goal, but it's also a very practical goal. 1095 01:11:13,435 --> 01:11:15,938 This city is a city of bridges. 1096 01:11:16,021 --> 01:11:20,442 We have more bridges than most cities on earth. 1097 01:11:20,526 --> 01:11:25,531 As mayor, my job is to take all the great things that I remember from my childhood 1098 01:11:26,031 --> 01:11:31,537 about Pittsburgh and what it was and make sure it gets to the other side of the bridge 1099 01:11:31,620 --> 01:11:36,709 and then to be able to hand it off to somebody, because I believe that it's not just the 1100 01:11:36,792 --> 01:11:42,256 Pittsburgh's but it's the other cities, it's the institutions and the youth 1101 01:11:42,881 --> 01:11:44,383 that will help to lead the world. 1102 01:11:44,466 --> 01:11:46,385 PROTESTORS: Take it the polls! 1103 01:11:46,468 --> 01:11:47,970 MAN: Take it the street! 1104 01:11:48,053 --> 01:11:49,680 PROTESTORS: Take it the polls! 1105 01:11:49,763 --> 01:11:52,349 IRIS (over PA): This isn't just the beginning of one march. 1106 01:11:52,975 --> 01:11:58,856 This is the start of us taking control of our future. 1107 01:12:00,774 --> 01:12:02,443 (applause). 1108 01:12:02,526 --> 01:12:06,613 I started speaking out because I felt like the youth voice needed to be in the 1109 01:12:06,697 --> 01:12:10,117 discussion about these issues that are directly going to impact us. 1110 01:12:11,201 --> 01:12:17,583 And we are calling for climate action because this is zero hour. 1111 01:12:20,336 --> 01:12:21,879 (cheering). 1112 01:12:21,962 --> 01:12:25,549 This is zero hour to act on climate change because the clock is ticking. 1113 01:12:25,632 --> 01:12:30,262 But when you bring together a group of diverse young people from all different 1114 01:12:30,346 --> 01:12:36,602 backgrounds, we can really come together as a movement and take action because our 1115 01:12:37,102 --> 01:12:39,897 lives are at stake here. 1116 01:12:39,980 --> 01:12:42,775 EVA (off screen): I think people in my generation and the generation below 1117 01:12:42,858 --> 01:12:45,194 me see this as our future. 1118 01:12:45,277 --> 01:12:50,032 We see a viable path where people are working and people are installing solar panels 1119 01:12:50,616 --> 01:12:53,994 and wind turbines and we just see that as where we're going. 1120 01:12:54,078 --> 01:12:55,913 It's not even a question. 1121 01:12:55,996 --> 01:12:57,623 CASTRO: You look at the facts. 1122 01:12:57,706 --> 01:13:02,127 The transformation towards a renewable energy future is the greatest 1123 01:13:02,753 --> 01:13:06,048 economic opportunity of the 21st century. 1124 01:13:06,423 --> 01:13:10,177 SUH (off screen): This is not a left state, right state, blue state, 1125 01:13:10,928 --> 01:13:12,679 red state issue. 1126 01:13:12,763 --> 01:13:17,976 This is a fantastic opportunity for communities to revitalize themselves and 1127 01:13:18,060 --> 01:13:20,896 combat climate change at the exact same time. 1128 01:13:21,230 --> 01:13:23,565 KADISH (off screen): If climate change is going to be addressed successfully, 1129 01:13:23,649 --> 01:13:27,861 everyone is going to need to participate in the solutions and that means not just 1130 01:13:27,945 --> 01:13:31,657 installing solar on homes but moving people into electric vehicles 1131 01:13:32,533 --> 01:13:34,118 that are powered by that solar. 1132 01:13:34,201 --> 01:13:38,997 It means finding a way for renters to benefit from solar so that the gains 1133 01:13:39,081 --> 01:13:42,167 from this new economy flow to everybody. 1134 01:13:42,251 --> 01:13:44,795 TAYLOR (off screen): We have to move away from fossil fuels. 1135 01:13:44,878 --> 01:13:49,383 One way to do that in a fast and ambitious fashion is to put a 1136 01:13:49,466 --> 01:13:51,552 price on greenhouse gas emissions. 1137 01:13:51,635 --> 01:13:53,720 LUBBER (off screen): And it's going to take grappling with the reality 1138 01:13:53,804 --> 01:13:55,514 that we need to act now. 1139 01:13:55,597 --> 01:13:58,392 If we put it off, the challenge gets bigger, it gets greater. 1140 01:13:58,475 --> 01:14:03,063 We still need scale and having policy at a federal level is going to be 1141 01:14:03,647 --> 01:14:06,442 an imperative to quicken the pace. 1142 01:14:06,525 --> 01:14:11,405 PEDUTO: And if we look at it as an American Marshall Plan, and we start to build out the 1143 01:14:11,488 --> 01:14:16,827 renewable energy industry, we can exceed the goals of the Paris Agreement. 1144 01:14:17,911 --> 01:14:20,956 POTOSNAK: The minimal thing you should be doing is getting out there and asking 1145 01:14:21,039 --> 01:14:24,376 candidates for office and elected officials how they're agreeing to tackle 1146 01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:26,795 a big problem like climate change. 1147 01:14:26,879 --> 01:14:28,797 FABER-O'CONNOR (off screen): We're all a resident of somewhere, 1148 01:14:28,881 --> 01:14:32,593 so residents of cities have a huge role to play. 1149 01:14:32,676 --> 01:14:36,388 That's where we can pull the levers on things like transportation decisions, 1150 01:14:37,139 --> 01:14:40,726 land use decisions, people understanding where they live, where they work, 1151 01:14:41,143 --> 01:14:42,436 how they get around. 1152 01:14:42,519 --> 01:14:45,731 This is their everyday life that actually can make a real difference. 1153 01:14:46,106 --> 01:14:49,234 GARCETTI: I believe that we will be able to bring the best of technology, 1154 01:14:49,318 --> 01:14:53,155 personal action, and just the heart that says, "this matters." 1155 01:14:53,238 --> 01:14:56,533 Long after we're going to be gone, that our children and our children's children will 1156 01:14:56,617 --> 01:15:01,497 have an Earth and a quality of life that we can feel proud that we left behind. 1157 01:15:01,580 --> 01:15:03,123 CLEETUS (off screen): What I'm hopeful about is that there are 1158 01:15:03,207 --> 01:15:05,959 so many people around the world who are out there 1159 01:15:06,043 --> 01:15:10,088 saying that they want this vision of a clean energy economy 1160 01:15:10,172 --> 01:15:12,090 and a future that benefits all. 1161 01:15:12,174 --> 01:15:15,928 So what we need to do is galvanize this movement, put pressure on our political 1162 01:15:16,011 --> 01:15:20,766 leaders to do what we want them to do, to live up to their responsibility to us, 1163 01:15:21,517 --> 01:15:23,685 to our children and our grandchildren. 1164 01:15:23,769 --> 01:15:27,105 GROUP: Our future! Our planet! Our future! 1165 01:15:30,275 --> 01:15:34,780 ♪ This land is your land, this land is my land ♪ 1166 01:15:35,447 --> 01:15:40,536 ♪ From the California to the New York island ♪ 1167 01:15:41,245 --> 01:15:47,042 ♪ From the Redwood Forest, to the gulf stream waters ♪ 1168 01:15:48,210 --> 01:15:52,673 ♪ This land was made for you and me ♪ 1169 01:15:53,423 --> 01:15:58,178 ♪ As I was walking that ribbon of highway ♪ 1170 01:15:59,388 --> 01:16:03,934 ♪ I saw above me that endless skyway ♪ 1171 01:16:05,686 --> 01:16:10,190 ♪ I saw below me that golden valley ♪ 1172 01:16:13,402 --> 01:16:17,030 ♪ This land was made for you and me ♪ 1173 01:16:18,323 --> 01:16:21,118 ♪ I've roamed and rambled ♪ 1174 01:16:21,702 --> 01:16:24,580 ♪ And I followed my footsteps ♪ 1175 01:16:24,913 --> 01:16:29,751 ♪ To the sparklin' sands of her diamond deserts. ♪ 1176 01:16:30,961 --> 01:16:35,340 ♪ And all around me a voice was sounding ♪ 1177 01:16:38,010 --> 01:16:40,762 ♪ This land was made for you and me ♪♪ 1178 01:16:40,846 --> 01:16:42,472 Captioned by Cotter Captioning Services. 109114

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