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BILL (over TV):
Is the climate in this
country really changing?
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REPORTER (over TV):
Yes, and not only in
this country, Bill.
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There are many lines of
evidence, which show that
the climate has slowly been
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warming up during the
20th century over almost
the entire Earth's surface.
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MAN (over TV): Man may be
unwittingly changing the
world's climate through
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the waste products
of his civilization.
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REPORTER (over TV): Over
pollution unless checked
could so warm the Earth in
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200 years as to
create a greenhouse effect
melting the Arctic ice.
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REPORTER (over TV): The
temperature of the lower
atmosphere will rise perhaps
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to a greater extent than
at any time since the
end of the last ice age.
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JAMES: This evidence
represents a very strong
case, in my opinion,
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that the greenhouse effect
has been detected and it is
changing our climate now.
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NARRATOR: The science is in:
for decades, there's been
scientific consensus that
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climate change is real, is
caused by humans and poses
a threat to civilization.
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CARL: Solving these problems
requires a transnational
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and transgenerational
perspective.
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NARRATOR: Starting at the
United Nations Earth Summit
in Rio de Janeiro in 1992,
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the international
community began working
together to address the
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greatest issue
in human history.
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REPORTER (over TV): 175
nations did sign a blueprint
for the world's future.
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It's a weaker
blueprint than many wanted,
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but the real test comes
in the months and years ahead.
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NARRATOR: Every year since
1995, the global community
has gathered together
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to negotiate a lasting
agreement to reduce
carbon emissions.
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REPORTER (over TV):
In Japan today, talks
on a global climate
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treaty went
way into overtime.
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REPORTER (over TV): The
ink is barely dry on an
historic agreement to fight
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global warming and
already its future is in doubt.
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REPORTER (over TV):
Big polluters like India
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and China haven't signed on.
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NARRATOR: Despite the failings
of international climate
negotiations and agreements,
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advocates from cities,
towns and states, along with
businesses and universities,
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continued their pressure.
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REPORTER (over TV): Hundreds
of thousands took to the
streets of New York today.
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NARRATOR: And renewable
energy continued to grow.
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REPORTER (over TV): You may
want to consider a job in
the clean energy industry.
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It is growing and
they need more workers.
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NARRATOR: And in 2015,
led by the world's largest
carbon emitters,
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the world came
together in Paris.
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REPORTER (over TV): It
took two decades, but now a
historic agreement on climate
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change signed by nearly
every nation in the world.
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(speaking in
foreign language).
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MAN (over TV): We've
written a new chapter
of hope in the lives of
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7 billion
people on the planet.
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REPORTER (over TV):
The new deal will not
end global warming,
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but signatories
have agreed to reduce
their carbon emissions
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and it's being
seen as a turning point.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: The
Paris Agreement represents
the best chance we've had
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to save the one
planet that we've got.
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(applause).
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: In
order to fulfill my solemn
duty to protect America
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and its citizens, the
United States will withdraw
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from the Paris Climate Accord.
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I was elected to
represent the citizens of
Pittsburgh, not Paris.
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PEDUTO: It's the afternoon.
I'm sitting in this room.
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I'm looking over my
phone and I get an alert
and the alert says,
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"I was elected to
represent the people of
Pittsburgh, not Paris."
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you.
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PEDUTO: Read it twice.
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Went into to my chief of
staff's office and just
yelled, "Pittsburgh?!"
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And he's like, what
are you talking about?
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And I said,
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and I started tweeting back
that Pittsburgh was going
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to stay in the
Paris Agreement.
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(inaudible).
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EVA: In the aftermath of
President Trump pulling out of
the Paris Climate Agreement,
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Pittsburghers came out in
thousands to say that we were
going to take climate action
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into our own hands and
move forward as a city.
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PEDUTO: And so we
decided to show how policy
at a local level will help
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to change the world.
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REPORTER (over TV): Mayor
Bill Peduto signed an executive
order today that requires
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the city to follow
the guidelines of
the Paris Agreement.
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NARRATOR: It wasn't just
Pittsburgh that reacted
to this announcement.
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A movement was galvanized
around the country.
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REPORTER (over TV): Already
this morning there is a new
drive that's gaining steam to
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stick to the U.S.'s
commitments combating climate
change despite President Trump.
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NARRATOR: In the U.S.,
hundreds of cities, states,
universities and businesses
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joined the ranks of
those already committed
to the goals of Paris.
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BROWN: Mayors and governors,
we're here in the action on
the field taking the kind of
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steps that are needed
to get the job done to
preserve our climate.
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NARRATOR: A revolution is
underway to tackle our biggest
sources of carbon emissions,
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creating transformations
in how people get
around, build buildings,
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grow food and
generate electricity.
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So while coal plants
continue to close, clean
energy is creating jobs,
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growing the economy
and lowering emissions.
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PEDUTO (off screen): Despite
the President's announcement,
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we are still moving
ahead in renewable energy.
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There are now more jobs in
renewable energy in the state
of Pennsylvania than coal,
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natural gas and oil combined.
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CURBELO (off screen): I think
the president has it wrong.
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This isn't a zero-sum
game where we either
save the environment
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or grow the economy.
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We can do both
at the same time.
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BLOOMBERG: The American
government may have pulled
out of the Paris Agreement,
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but the American people are
committed to its goals and
there is nothing Washington
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can do to stop us.
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NARRATOR: The solutions
are at hand and it
couldn't be soon enough.
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The front lines of
climate change are now
in everyone's backyard,
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from California to
Iowa to Florida.
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Climate change is not
coming, it's already here.
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CASTRO: I grew up in the
heart of South Miami and
when I was 10 years old,
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I first started to get
involved in surfing.
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I remember coming out
on South Beach early on when I
started to surf and I remember
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just seeing vast land of
sand before you hit the beach
and now you know I come back
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to Miami and I continue to be
shocked at how close the water
is encroaching on South Beach.
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I think we're going
to have to adapt very, very
quickly to the rising tides
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and to the rising seas.
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CLEETUS: Climate
change isn't just about
some far-off future.
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It's actually happening
all around us right now.
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And here in the U.S.
along the east and Gulf coast
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of the country in particular,
we have some real hotspots
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where we're seeing
even greater and faster
rates of sea level rise.
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MANN: In Florida, there isn't
much elevation and so they
are now dealing with perennial
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flooding in Miami Beach,
in Fort Lauderdale, from
what they call king tides.
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REPORTER (over TV):
King tides are here and the
rising floodwaters are creating
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some trouble for
drivers and residents.
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REPORTER (over TV): Salt
water seeping up through storm
drains and over the sea wall,
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soaking the streets
of Miami Beach.
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MANN (off screen):
These are seasonal high tides
that have been there
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for the eons and
yet now when they
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arrive in the fall they flood
the streets of Miami Beach,
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and that's because
of sea level rise.
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CASTRO: In fact, there is an
image of an octopus that was
found in a parking garage half
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mile in from the beach
and it's just showing that,
you know, this is real deal.
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LEWIS: The big focus in
Miami Beach, I believe,
is on adaptation.
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They're spending
$500,000,000 on pumps to
keep the tidal water off
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the streets
during king tides.
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So, you adapt to climate
change by elevating roads,
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putting that green
infrastructure in,
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slowing the worse
effects from happening.
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So that's getting a lot
of attention because
people see that as,
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keep the water away
from me kind of thing.
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What they're not doing quick
enough is addressing things
like salt water intrusion and
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when people talk about sea
level rise being the thing
that gets us out of here
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because we're flooding,
I wonder if it couldn't be
freshwater vulnerability that
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gets us out of here faster.
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NARRATOR: The Everglades
is a critical source of
fresh drinking water
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for nearly eight million
people in southern Florida.
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But as the sea rises,
it's moving inland, pushing
sea water into the aquifers
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and the Everglades, and
threatening the freshwater
supply for the entire region.
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CASTRO: A lot of people,
when they think of sea level
rise in the State of Florida,
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they think encroaching
on the coastlines,
but because we're,
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we're built on
this porous limestone,
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water can
actually percolate up.
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WANLESS: Once the water
level's up, the water
will just come through.
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CASTRO (off screen):
Come through, right.
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WANLESS: And there's
essentially nothing we
can do to stop that.
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That's a real problem
because as sea level has risen,
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we've been pulling
harder on wells,
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sucking harder, so we're
sort of pulling salt water in
from the ocean too, doing that.
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CASTRO (off screen):
It's almost, we're pulling up
brackish water, essentially.
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WANLESS (off screen): Yes,
we've had to move the wells
farther and farther inland.
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I think probably within
the next 30 years we'll
have lost our fresh water
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in South Florida.
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MANN (off screen): Look
at global sea level rise.
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Here's another area
of the science where,
as we learn more,
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we're discovering that we may
be worse off than we thought,
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the models may have under
predicted the amount of sea
level rise that we could see
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by just the
end of this century.
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If you look at even
a recent report of the
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Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change,
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they were looking at
a worst-case scenario
of a little more than
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three feet of sea level
rise by the end of
the century, globally.
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But now there's enough new
science that's come in that
tells us that the ice sheets
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are losing ice faster, that
there are processes that
we didn't have in our models
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and as we put them
into the models, we're now
learning that we could be in
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for more than six feet
of global sea level rise
by the end of the century.
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Even if we stop emitting
carbon to the atmosphere now,
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just because of the
inertia of the system,
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we will continue to see
sea level rise for some time.
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And if we continue with
business as usual, if we
don't do anything about our
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escalating carbon emissions,
there is nothing to prevent
us from melting most of the
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West Antarctic ice sheet
and a large part of the
Greenland ice sheet.
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And if we go down that
path then at some point in
the future we could be seeing
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20 feet of
global sea level rise.
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LUBBER (off screen): It's
not happening ten years from
now, it is happening now.
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Floods are devastating
communities, are
devastating economies,
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are taking away
people's homes.
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Think about Miami Beach.
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We're still seeing
building in those areas.
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People want to live on the
waterfront, but the economic
signals are very clear.
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Insurance companies don't want
to ensure those places, uh,
they're being redlined out,
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meaning they're allowing
people to fend for themselves
or they're raising their
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prices so high that you
can't even get insurance.
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NARRATOR: In the U.S.,
it's estimated that
in about 25 years,
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more than 300,000 homes
and businesses valued
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at $135 billion may be
chronically flooded.
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And by the end of the
century, that number grows
to two and a half million.
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ROS-LEHTINEN: I represent
communities that people
would think they're pretty
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conservative and yet now
that they see the impact, the
economic impact that sea level
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rise and climate change has
on their pocketbooks and the
revenues that their cities
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bring in, they're
understanding that this
is a conservative issue.
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But many Republican
public officials do not see
the urgency in this because
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it has been a partisan
issue for a long time.
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INHOFE: When you say that
science is settled and the
overwhelming scientific
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analysis comes to that
conclusion, frankly that
is just not correct.
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CRUZ: Climate change is
not science, it's religion.
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CLEETUS (off screen):
Climate denialism, the
sort of anti-science attitude
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about what is clearly
observable and which has
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been supported
by multiple lines of evidence
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didn't happen by accident.
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There has been a very
well-funded, long-standing
fossil fuel lobby that has
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been spreading disinformation
and trying to undercut any
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attempt at climate
action in the U.S.
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GERRARD (off screen): To
this day, Koch Industries,
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a privately-owned
fossil fuel company,
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have been funding
climate denial activities,
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have been working
as hard as they can to
fight climate regulation.
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REPORTER (over TV): The
Koch brothers are among
the nation's best-known
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politically active families.
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The billionaires'
network of political action
committees and advocacy groups
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will spend $300,000,000
on campaign 2016.
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TAYLOR (off screen):
Most Republicans in the
House and the Senate privately
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understand full
well climate change is real,
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it's not this fiction,
it's not a scam,
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it's not concocted by
liberal activists trying
to destroy capitalism.
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Uh, that it's a
dangerous thing, that we're
seeing its impacts now.
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They're afraid of what it's
going to mean for the future.
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They just don't know exactly
what they can do about it
politically that won't cost
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them their job
through a primary challenge.
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GERRARD: Climate denial
is not limited to
the federal government.
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Some governors have engaged
in some similar activities.
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Governor Rick Scott
of Florida, for example.
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REPORTER (over TV):
State's Department of
Environmental Protection
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banned some employees
from using the term climate
change or global warming.
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This unwritten policy
went into effect after
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Republican Governor
Rick Scott took office.
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GERRARD (off screen): It's
almost as if President Trump
is following Governor Scott
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and adopting the
same kinds of tactics.
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Almost all of his
cabinet members have been
out front in denying that
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climate change
is being caused mostly
by human activities.
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PRUITT: Thank you
Mr. President.
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Your decision today to exit
the Paris Accord reflects
your unflinching commitment
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to put America first.
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GERRARD (off screen):
They have been going through
various federal documents
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and x-ing out the
terms "climate change."
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They want to slash the
budgets of the scientific
research agencies.
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In every imaginable way,
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the administration has been
discouraging the use of science.
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ROS-LEHTINEN: It's hard
for us to move any kind of
legislation because if we have
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the administration against us,
it's just really difficult.
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SUH: This administration
clearly has the environment in
its bull's-eye and is clearly,
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and systematically,
going after every single
environmental statute and
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regulation as well as the
federal government's ability
to address climate change.
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CURBELO (off screen):
And what I would tell my
friends in public office
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is we need your leadership,
both sides of the aisle.
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Doesn't matter
if you're Republican,
Democrat, Independent,
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you have a role to play
here and those of us who
are from Florida should
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be even more active and
aggressive in pursuing these
policies because you know
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what's bad for jobs
and the economy?
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Sea level rise and coastal
flooding and saltwater
intrusion into the Everglades
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where our drinking supply
rests in South Florida.
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That will really
devastate our region.
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It actually won't allow
us to live there anymore.
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WANLESS (off screen):
I think somewhere later
in this century,
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Miami as we know it
is going to be unlivable.
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So in reality,
in South Florida, we're
just going to be leaving.
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We don't have the problem.
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You, up in Orlando.
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You better set aside your
groundwater resources and
you better plan for us.
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You really better
plan 'cause we are coming.
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It's not if we don't do
something, we may be coming.
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We will be coming.
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NARRATOR: A recent
study showed that by
the end of the century,
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as many as two
and a half million people
from southern Florida
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may be displaced
due to climate change.
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And many of them could
be headed to Orlando.
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The city is not
only preparing for these
impacts of climate change,
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they're also doing
their part to fight it,
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despite federal inaction.
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ISAAC (off screen):
The message around climate
has been so hard for
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ordinary people to plug into.
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It's been big and
scary and something
that's happening far away and
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something that I personally
can't do anything about.
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And that's not true.
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It is big and scary.
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But there are things
we can do and we can impact
policy in our communities
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that can make
a big difference.
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Yeah, if everybody
could take a seat.
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So, I want to say welcome
and thank you for being here.
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When we founded the First
50 Coalition, our goal was
to make our city one of the
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first 50 in the
nation to commit to 100%
renewable energy by 2050.
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DYER (off screen): A lot
of greenhouse gas emissions
come from cities
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so after the
current administration
withdrew us from Paris,
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there had been a
number of cities that stepped
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up to the challenge on
renewables and just kind of
galvanized us at the local
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level that we had to pick up
the sword and charge forward.
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SPEAKER: Good afternoon,
I'd like to welcome
you to the August 8th meeting
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of the
Orlando City Council.
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We're going to...
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ISAAC: So we went to the city
council to get a commitment to
100% renewable energy by 2050;
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we were hopeful.
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Every single person in
that room was in support.
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I don't think that's
ever happened at a city
commission meeting before,
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where absolutely everybody
is in favor of something.
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DYER: All those
in favor of the motion
indicate so by saying aye.
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Those opposed, and so the
motion carries unanimously.
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(applause).
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ISAAC: And they voted yes!
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REPORTER (over TV):
The City of Orlando has
committed to running on
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clean renewable energy by 2050.
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ISAAC: And that was the
whole reason we started
is we needed a win.
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We need a positive momentum.
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We needed to say this is the
kind of community we could be.
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NARRATOR: Commitments to
renewable energy are being
made around the country.
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More than 75 cities
throughout the U.S.
have already committed
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to using 100% renewable
energy by midcentury.
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To help make this happen
cities are developing
innovative solutions.
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CASTRO: One of the things
that we're doing in Orlando
is testing floating solar,
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what we call
floating voltaics.
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There's 9,000 man-made ponds,
that have been created to
capture storm water from the
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streets and we've started
to test out in some of these
ponds how to put floating
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solar on top of them.
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We've also turned
on one of the largest
installations that we have,
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it's a 12-megawatt
community solar farm, and
it was literally over decades
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a landfill where we
were turning coal ash after
being burned and burying it.
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And we realized that
after that was capped,
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that that was a prime
spot for us to put solar up.
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We're also transitioning
our downtown bus
rapid transit system to
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100% electric
zero-emission buses.
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Another high priority
is the energy-food nexus.
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We're shipping
food all around the world,
all around the country,
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15 to 1,800
miles per person,
per plate, per day.
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And in fact, people
have done research that
food systems contribute
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as much as a third of
global climate change.
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So we were like, all right,
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one, we need to localize it,
as local as possible.
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Two, we need
to use zero-emission
transportation to build,
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maintain and distribute that
produce to the end users,
markets and restaurants.
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And that's the epiphany that
we had with Fleet Farming.
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PERRY (off screen):
So starting out, we're
going to go ahead and
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have a group that's
going to harvest and
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a group that's
going to turn a plot.
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CASTRO: There's 40 million
acres of lawns across this
country that are absorbing
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a lot of the water resources,
that we're spraying a lot of
fertilizers on and causing
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other problems and that
we could convert into
edible landscapes that
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can produce our
food in our neighborhood.
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Not just local
but hyper-local.
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PERRY: Ok so I'm going
to go ahead and show
you how to harvest.
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Basically, a homeowner
pays a startup fee.
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We farm their front
lawns with the help
of the community during
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our biweekly swarm rides.
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We ride bikes out and
we teach the community how
to farm these front lawns.
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CASTRO: It's a win-win
situation across the board.
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The homeowner who provides
the land is actually
getting all of that produce
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free of charge as
much as they want.
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The excess that's grown,
we're harvesting and
we're taking it to market.
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PERRY (off screen): We
got some heirloom carrots,
watermelon radishes and beets.
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WOMAN (off screen):
Awesome!
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CASTRO (off screen):
Now we're scaling.
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We're in West Oakland,
California, we're
operating in Jacksonville,
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we have
two branches in Orlando,
so we're pretty excited.
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NARRATOR: The pioneering
efforts in cities like Orlando
are essential to achieving
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the goals of the
Paris Climate Accord.
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Orlando itself is not
only bracing for an influx of
people from southern Florida,
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but because of major
hurricanes, which devastated
the Caribbean in 2017,
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refugees from U.S. territories
have already arrived.
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REPORTER (over TV):
215,000 people have
arrived in Florida alone.
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Many survivors are flying to
Orlando International Airport
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where there's
a resource center.
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CASTRO: Since Irma and Maria,
we've seen now 300,000 people
flee to our city and
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that's been a big challenge
in terms of education for the
kids, putting them into schools,
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finding reliable,
affordable housing
for them and then of
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course finding them jobs
to sustain their families.
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EMMANUEL: We have a lot
of loved ones who came to
the United States.
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And went to
different states.
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But there are still
some in Puerto Rico who
wish to leave and come here.
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CRISTAL: There was
a lot of devastation
throughout Puerto Rico.
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Still there are
other areas that still
don't have electricity.
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It's a long time to
be living day-to-day.
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Not knowing what
you're going to eat.
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Not being able to
sustain your children.
Because you think about them.
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They don't understand
the situation,
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as much as you
try to explain it to them.
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LUBBER (off screen): The
hurricane season of 2017,
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we saw flooding that
has absolutely devastated
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Puerto Rico,
Houston, Texas, hundreds
of billions of dollars'
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worth of damage to
people's lives, their homes.
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REPORTER (over TV):
Hurricane Harvey barreling
into the Texas coastline as
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a category four storm
with 130 mile-an-hour winds.
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REPORTER (over TV):
It's not just a
little bit of rain.
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Look at this, feet of rain
is what we're communicating,
not inches but feet.
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CLEETUS (off screen):
There are now studies that show
that the extreme rainfall that
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accompanied that hurricane was
made much more likely because
of climate change.
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MANN: Those warm ocean
temperatures meant that
there were record amounts of
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moisture within that storm,
moisture that was available
to produce the worst flooding
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event on record in
the United States.
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REPORTER (over TV):
For a third brutal
day, torrential rain,
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people rescued
from flooded homes.
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WOMAN (over TV):
There's water everywhere.
We have nowhere to go.
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I have all my children.
I lost everything.
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I have nothing but the
clothes on my back.
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MANN (off screen): These
storms are now about 20%
more destructive because
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of the overall
warming of the ocean,
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which thus far
is less than a degree Celsius.
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Imagine what two
degrees Celsius gives us?
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REPORTER (over TV):
The Caribbean has just
been getting hammered.
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Here's storm number
four in just weeks.
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REPORTER (over TV): The winds
are going to be devastating.
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CRISTAL (off screen):
We were left without
electricity or water.
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We had to find water,
food, gasoline,
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transportation
and communication.
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CLEETUS (off screen):
These types of extreme weather
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events exacerbate
already existing challenges so
in the case of
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Puerto Rico the electricity
grid had been under-invested
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in for a very long
period of time.
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And then this hurricane
came along and pretty
much decimated it.
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And that meant not just
that people lost power
but when they lost power,
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people lost lives.
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NARRATOR: Puerto Rican
officials originally put
the death toll at 64.
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But nearly a year later,
raised that estimate to
almost 3,000 people when
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accounting for the extended
loss of electricity
and the lack of food,
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water and healthcare
after the storm.
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Yet in the face of tragedy,
a remote town of 18,000 in
the mountains of Puerto Rico,
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showed how renewable energy
can be a life-saving solution.
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MAN (off screen): We
are transmitting live from
Casa Pueblo Radio AM 1020,
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the station that kept
you informed both during
and after Hurricane Maria.
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We continue with listening
to some beautiful music
on Casa Pueblo Radio,
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the big hitter of Puerto Rico.
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DEYA (off screen):
Casa Pueblo is a
community-based organization.
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We're actively working
to change our energy
landscape in Adjuntas.
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Everything in Casa Pueblo
runs on clean energy.
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The radio, the production
of our brand of coffee.
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We have cinema theater
run on solar power.
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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:
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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.
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00:30:40,421 --> 00:30:42,632
TAYLOR (off screen):
We have to reduce the
global consumption of
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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
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somebody who lived
through the Pittsburgh of old.
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01:09:01,929 --> 01:09:05,432
Pittsburgh was the
center of heavy industry.
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Coal and steel became
a part of its legacy.
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01:09:11,063 --> 01:09:14,650
It was a two-shirt town,
meaning that if you
worked in corporate
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Pittsburgh in the 1940s,
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01:09:16,986 --> 01:09:20,990
you wore one shirt up
until lunchtime and then
you changed it because
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of the amount of soot
that would get on it.
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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.
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01:09:33,836 --> 01:09:37,131
And then by 1979,
it all collapsed.
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01:09:38,132 --> 01:09:44,305
Took 30 years between
1979 and 2009 to see
this city come back.
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01:09:47,099 --> 01:09:52,104
ERVIN: The city
had to reimagine itself as
a knowledge economy where
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healthcare and education and
robotics really developed here
and now we're starting
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01:09:57,276 --> 01:09:59,278
to see the fruits
of those labors.
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PEDUTO (off screen): There
was a whole different part of
Pittsburgh that was thinking
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01:10:02,656 --> 01:10:06,869
maybe our future doesn't
necessarily have to
be based upon the past.
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01:10:08,871 --> 01:10:12,541
And these were
the people that were looking
at technology and engineering
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01:10:12,625 --> 01:10:17,004
and understanding
it wasn't steel, it was
innovation that would be the
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01:10:17,087 --> 01:10:21,091
cornerstone from which we
would build a new Pittsburgh.
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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
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01:10:27,598 --> 01:10:30,684
that were sown and
create the clean economy.
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01:10:30,768 --> 01:10:34,188
It's about changing
building codes, how we
plan our neighborhoods,
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01:10:34,271 --> 01:10:36,941
how we design our streets.
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01:10:37,024 --> 01:10:41,862
So whether you are developing
new energy-efficient housing
or you know, creating new,
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01:10:42,488 --> 01:10:46,825
clean energy generation
systems, this is
economic development.
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This is innovation.
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PEDUTO (off screen):
And today we are fully
committed to making that
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transition to be at
100% renewable energy
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01:10:56,794 --> 01:10:59,797
at the city level,
a 50% reduction in
the amount of energy
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01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:03,801
we're using and a zero-landfill
waste policy by 2030.
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01:11:06,011 --> 01:11:09,098
It's an ambitious
goal, but it's also a
very practical goal.
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01:11:13,435 --> 01:11:15,938
This city is a
city of bridges.
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01:11:16,021 --> 01:11:20,442
We have more bridges
than most cities on earth.
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As mayor, my job is to take
all the great things that I
remember from my childhood
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about Pittsburgh and what it
was and make sure it gets to
the other side of the bridge
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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
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Pittsburgh's but it's
the other cities, it's the
institutions and the youth
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that will help
to lead the world.
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PROTESTORS: Take it the polls!
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01:11:46,468 --> 01:11:47,970
MAN: Take it the street!
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01:11:48,053 --> 01:11:49,680
PROTESTORS: Take it the polls!
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01:11:49,763 --> 01:11:52,349
IRIS (over PA):
This isn't just the
beginning of one march.
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This is the start of us
taking control of our future.
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01:12:00,774 --> 01:12:02,443
(applause).
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01:12:02,526 --> 01:12:06,613
I started speaking out
because I felt like the youth
voice needed to be in the
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01:12:06,697 --> 01:12:10,117
discussion about these
issues that are directly
going to impact us.
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01:12:11,201 --> 01:12:17,583
And we are calling for
climate action because
this is zero hour.
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01:12:20,336 --> 01:12:21,879
(cheering).
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01:12:21,962 --> 01:12:25,549
This is zero hour to act
on climate change because
the clock is ticking.
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01:12:25,632 --> 01:12:30,262
But when you bring together
a group of diverse young
people from all different
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01:12:30,346 --> 01:12:36,602
backgrounds, we can really
come together as a movement
and take action because our
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01:12:37,102 --> 01:12:39,897
lives are at stake here.
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01:12:39,980 --> 01:12:42,775
EVA (off screen): I
think people in my generation
and the generation below
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01:12:42,858 --> 01:12:45,194
me see this as our future.
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01:12:45,277 --> 01:12:50,032
We see a viable path where
people are working and people
are installing solar panels
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01:12:50,616 --> 01:12:53,994
and wind turbines and we just
see that as where we're going.
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01:12:54,078 --> 01:12:55,913
It's not even a question.
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CASTRO: You look at the facts.
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01:12:57,706 --> 01:13:02,127
The transformation
towards a renewable energy
future is the greatest
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01:13:02,753 --> 01:13:06,048
economic opportunity
of the 21st century.
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01:13:06,423 --> 01:13:10,177
SUH (off screen):
This is not a left state,
right state, blue state,
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01:13:10,928 --> 01:13:12,679
red state issue.
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01:13:12,763 --> 01:13:17,976
This is a fantastic
opportunity for communities
to revitalize themselves and
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01:13:18,060 --> 01:13:20,896
combat climate change
at the exact same time.
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KADISH (off screen): If
climate change is going to
be addressed successfully,
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01:13:23,649 --> 01:13:27,861
everyone is going to need to
participate in the solutions
and that means not just
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01:13:27,945 --> 01:13:31,657
installing solar
on homes but moving people
into electric vehicles
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01:13:32,533 --> 01:13:34,118
that are powered
by that solar.
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01:13:34,201 --> 01:13:38,997
It means finding a way
for renters to benefit from
solar so that the gains
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01:13:39,081 --> 01:13:42,167
from this new
economy flow to everybody.
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01:13:42,251 --> 01:13:44,795
TAYLOR (off screen):
We have to move away
from fossil fuels.
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01:13:44,878 --> 01:13:49,383
One way to do that in
a fast and ambitious
fashion is to put a
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01:13:49,466 --> 01:13:51,552
price on
greenhouse gas emissions.
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LUBBER (off screen):
And it's going to take
grappling with the reality
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01:13:53,804 --> 01:13:55,514
that we need to act now.
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01:13:55,597 --> 01:13:58,392
If we put it off, the
challenge gets bigger,
it gets greater.
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01:13:58,475 --> 01:14:03,063
We still need scale and
having policy at a federal
level is going to be
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01:14:03,647 --> 01:14:06,442
an imperative
to quicken the pace.
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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
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01:14:11,488 --> 01:14:16,827
renewable energy industry,
we can exceed the goals
of the Paris Agreement.
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01:14:17,911 --> 01:14:20,956
POTOSNAK: The minimal
thing you should be doing is
getting out there and asking
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01:14:21,039 --> 01:14:24,376
candidates for office
and elected officials how
they're agreeing to tackle
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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,
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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,
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01:14:37,139 --> 01:14:40,726
land use decisions, people
understanding where they
live, where they work,
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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,
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01:14:49,318 --> 01:14:53,155
personal action, and
just the heart that
says, "this matters."
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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
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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.
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01:15:01,580 --> 01:15:03,123
CLEETUS (off screen):
What I'm hopeful about
is that there are
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01:15:03,207 --> 01:15:05,959
so many people around
the world who are out there
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01:15:06,043 --> 01:15:10,088
saying that they want this
vision of a clean energy economy
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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,
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01:15:21,517 --> 01:15:23,685
to our children and
our grandchildren.
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01:15:23,769 --> 01:15:27,105
GROUP: Our future!
Our planet!
Our future!
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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 ♪♪
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01:16:40,846 --> 01:16:42,472
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