She chose safelite. With safelite, she could see exactly when wed be there. Teacher you must be pascal. Tech yes maam. Tech vo saving her time. [honk, honk] kids bye tech vo . So she can save the science project. Kids whoa kids vo safelite repair, safelite replace welcome back everyone to this undprentsed night here on cnn. Im don lemon. Thank you for joining us. We have heard from eight candidate on this stage. We have two democratic president ial candidates left. Answering voters questions about the climate emergency. Scientists tell us we are seeing the consequences of the Climate Crisis now. That will be cross a massive Tipping Point if the world warms more than 1. 5 degrees celsius. We have already warmed up by one degrees since the industrial revolution. Were half way there already. Right now, as you know, the carolinas are bracing for dorian and potentially life threatening storm surge. For the latest now lets go to the cnn weather center. I wouldnt be surprised if this storm reaches category 3 status. Its one mile Miles Per Hour shy of the that. As far as the winds go. With 110 Miles Per Hour winds. It has been intensifying a little bit throughout the Late Afternoon and evening. Gusts of 130. Its about 120 miles south of charleston now. It is heading in a northerly direction. South carolina and North Carolina they will get the brunt of it. Especially places like charleston that cant handle a lot of water being pushed in. We could see near record flooding across there. As far as tides go. You can see the center of the storm right there. The eye is expanding very wide. Were going to get storm surge all up and down the carolina coast. Including North Carolina. This could make a potential land fall on South Carolina or North Carolina in the next day or so. Thank you for that. Scientists have partly blamed human induced Climate Change. For the intensity of the storms that are hitting our coast. Which brings me to the next candidate. Everyone, please welcome former texas congressman beto orourke. Welcome. Good to see you. Right off, the person that you deal with Climate Crisis. Day one. Reenter the paris climate agreement. And make sure that we lead the world going well beyond the paris climate agreement. Regulate and enforce reduced Greenhouse Gas emissions from meth that i know and get to net zero on public lands by ensuring we have no new oil and gas leases on federally protected land and offshore areas being drilled today. Those three steps are a great place to start. And a good pace to set. And follow that up making sure we have legally enforceable standards every year over which no polluter can emit. Get to net zero Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2050. Earlier if we can. Half way by 230. And protect the most vulnerable communities on the front lines of Climate Change and pollution. Make sure we lift them up and protect the population and ensure envimtal justice. I should have worn taller shoes. I want to get it started with shes a student at new york university. Majoring in environmental studies and supports elizabeth warren. Your proposal is unclear wlrnt you support a carbon tax, what deters you . And what would you put in place. So, we should certainly price carbon. I think the best possible path to do that is through a cap and trade system. There would be allowances granted or sold. To polluters. Not just in the energy sector. But in transportation, as well as industrial sector. Cement. Steel. The chemicals that we produce. There would be a set number of allowances to decrease every single year because the clock is running. We have more than ten years left. We dont have time to experiment. I think that is the best possible path to ensure theres a price for carbon and pollution. In our economy. Set the standard here. And lead the global. Convene powers of the planet to make sure theyre doing their part. Thanks for question. Do you support a carbon tax . No. A cap and trade is the best possible path. Its the best way to send the pricing signal to ensure a legally enforceable limit. Thats the path ill choose. All right. I want to bring in lauren. She submitted a video from maryland. A teacher and mother to two boys. Im trying my best to go green im finding it to be quite expensive. For instance even with state and federal tax credits, solar panels cost thousands of dollars. The average american doesnt have this kind of money set aside when they have so many other expenses. My question for you is, as president , what will you do specifically to make going green more affordable for all americans . So, thank you for the question. Its related to the question i was talking about cap and trade. Those allowances that we sell, that income that revenue is used to help americans meet the cost of a transitions economy. By making sure we can meet the obligation when it comes to Climate Change. Thats investment in the communities on the front lines. Investment in making sure you can afford solar panels or electric vehicle. In communities to make sure we have transit or housing that is closer to where people work. I meet people driving one or two hours to work, paid a minimum wage or more unable to afford the life they have. Theyre working a second or third job. If we create more housing stock, closer to where people live, and have the resources to informs in that through a cap and trade system, well meet challenges and improve the quality of life of fellow americans. What would you like to see americans do to fight Climate Change . What can we do in our own lives . Respond to this in with the urgency that this crisis demands. I see that from some of the people here. So many young people in particular who understand that we dont get a Second Chance at this. From my own kids. Who are going to be younger than i am now by 2050. Judgment i fear more than anything else. Who i love more than anything else. I want to make sure that we get that right. I feel that urgency. That same ambition and understanding that this is america. We are up to this challenge. We convene the innovation and lead from the Public Sector through those parameters and mandates we set. We can perform to that and lead the world. On the greatest challenge that we have ever had to quote churchill. This could be or finest hour. And i want america to come together regardless of republican or democrat. Or geography or other difference. Do not allow that to divide us at this critical important defining moment. This is our challenge. Were up to the test. I didnt offer you a seat, are you okay standing . Im great standing. Lets bring in tom fernandez. Good evening. Im so panicked by this crisis ive now dedicated my future career to climate activism full time. I groo ew up in a republican household in florida a long time ago. My question is, republicans used to be the protecters of nature. So how do we renew that spirit among people of texas and america in general . Yeah. Great point. Im thinking about teddy roosevelt, one of the great Republican Leaders of more than a century ago, who was so instrumental in protecting our public lands. Reaso republicans as well as democrats as well as independents have kids and grandkids, care about the future of this planet, care about the future of the generations that will follow them and want to do the right thing. How do i know that . I campaigned for the United States senate in the state of texas. Every single one of the 254 counties that i went to, we talked about Climate Change, we talked about freeing ourselves from a dependence on fossil fuels, about investing in wind and solar, the Renewable Energy technologies that will allow us to meet our obligations to that future generation and also create the high value, high wage, high skilled jobs that are in demand in this country right now. And at the end of the day we won more votes than any democrat had in texas history. Won independents for the first time in decades. And more than 400,000 republicans like my mom who we convinced to vote for me supported us in that election. So i found that this is more of a popular issue across party lines than i would have imagined before. This is something that can unite us, and i think we just have to speak boldly and confidently about a Progressive Agenda that allows us to get there and the country is there. Thank you. You had to convince your mother to vote for you . I did, yes. Let me follow up on her question. As you know, President Trump has rolled back a number of obama era environmental regulations, including plans announced just today to reverse a rule about Energy Efficient light bulbs. Would you bring back all of those obama era regulations . Absolutely. Higher vehicle emission standards. A Clean Power Plan so that the electricity that were generating is clean and we completely electrify this economy from our power sector to our transportation sector to our industrial sector. We put farmers in the drivers seat. The next iteration of the farm bill pays them for the Environmental Services that they want to provide. Planting cover crops. Keeping more land under conservation. Allowing them to use regenerative agriculture in ranching. So, yes, lets not only reverse the damage that donald trump has done, and hes done a lot, but lets go much further than any administration before his has gone. Thats our opportunity right now, and i want us to meet that challenge. All right. Lets continue on with the audience questions here. Standing in front of you is juliana. She lives in washington, d. C. And a chairman at the Climate Change advocacy group. Juliana, what do you have . Im from brazil and i immigrated to various countries before coming to the United States. I witnessed the Climate Crisis in each country i lived in. Flash t. Droughts in angola, now the amazon is being burned. A big incentive for deforestation comes from u. S. Investors in the brazilian meat industry. How will you use u. S. Trade leverage to encourage brazil to protect these vital resources and the Indigenous People who live there. Great question. Juliana, thank you for the question, and also thank you for your leadership on this. You and other members of the Sunrise Movement are going to be the ones who are going to receive the credit for this change that were talking about today. You have forced those in positions of power and those who seek positions of public trust to do the right thing and to address these issues. So you mentioned our involvement in investment in brazil. Par this is one of the pernicious outcomes of Donald Trumps trade policies, this trade war with china that has not only closed markets that farmers in iowa and across this country have worked their entire lives to open up. Its not only put them further in debt at a time of declining farm incomes, it is providing an incentive for people to burn down the amazon rain forest to plant soybeans so that they can sell into china, because china right now is looking for new new sellers, new producers for those soybeans that they are no longer buying from the United States of america. So our trade policies, our leadership, blown opportunities at the g7 summit to convene those other top wealthy economies to make sure that this is our focus, to save the lungs of the planet that produce 6 of the oxygen that we breathe and to ensure that we do not trigger a crisis in the amazon. Once it is set, we will never be able to roll back. This is our opportunity. That is the threat that we face, and so we must be an International Leader on these issues. In brazil, in guatemala, where weve helped to precipitate a drought that they have never seen before, which has forced families to travel 2,000 miles to come to this country seeking asylum and refuge and salvation, only to have their children placed in kids and parents deported back. We have to understand that we are all connected on this planet. We all have a responsibility. And the United States especially, the indispensable country, has an opportunity to lead, and as president i will. Thank you for asking. All right. 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An historic night on cnn with the top ten democratic president ial candidates. In just a few minutes were going to hear from senator cory booker, but we want to get more of your questions now for former congressman beto orourke. So lets bring in now i want to bring in peggy shepherd, congressman. Bring her into the conversation. She is a cofounder and executive director of we act for Environmental Justice, based in new york. Right on. New york city. Getting lots of applause. A group that fights for equal environmental protections for people of color and lowincome residents. Peggy, whats your question. Yes, good evening. Good evening. An important Environmental Justice concern is extreme heat, which kills more residents each year than storm surge. So what would you do to address this issue through building codes or policies that really begin to address the escalating energy costs and the lack of air conditioning, and the lack of the ability to pay for air conditions by vulnerable populations. Over 31 over 31 million households in this country are energy insecure. Peggy, thanks for the work that youre doing. Thank you for asking the question. And thank you for pointing out a very real and present crisis that we have in this country. Right now and across much of the world. We talked about the ability to spend on helping those communities who are on the front lines of Climate Change right now through the revenues from a cap and trade system. So that means that those communities very often lower income and right now race and ethnicity is the best predictor to your proximity to a polluter are first in line to get the help that they need, that they deserve and that theyve missed for generations. This is a personal issue for me. El paso, texas is the second fastest warming city in the United States of america today. Weve had more than 14 days over 100 degrees over the month of august, which broke the record for as long as weve been setting records in our community, and ill tell you something, peggy and don, my son, henry, who is 8 years old, when i was talking to him the other night, he asked me, dad, if you win and you become president , we give to live in el paso, right . And i said, no, if we win, the way this works, we would live in washington, d. C. But he knew because i had told him about the warming that we face that our community will be uninhabitable, not sustain human life along this current trajectory unless something dramatically and fundamentally changes. So the people of el paso and the Desert Southwest and the lower ninth ward in new orleans and charleston, South Carolina, and miami, florida, really, the people of this country are counting on all of us right now to stand up and be counted and do the right thing. So we will make those investments, but the most important thing is to arrest the rate of Climate Change on this planet to ensure that we do not warm a 1. 5 degrees celsius over the preindustrial revolution levels. Thats my number one priority and thats why climate was the first plan i released as a candidate for presidency. Thanks for asking the question. Congressman, standing right in front of you. I think its important to point out she was living in puerto rico when Hurricane Maria struck. Shes now living in rochester, new york. Whats your question. Yes. We all know about the recent events that made puerto rico to be in the international media. Especially the wrong handling of funds and other types of assistance that were sent after the hurricane hit. This made us victims very angry, feel betrayed and heartbroken. What will your plan be if another natural event happens to make sure that victims get their necessary assistance on time and in a fair way . It makes me angry as well. I hope it makes everybody angry the way that weve treated the people of puerto rico, our fellow americans who were left in harms way without the necessary investment in the infrastructure to mitigate the storms that we knew were going to hit them. That are only more severe and more frequent and more devastating thanks to our excesses, our emissions, our inaction in the face of Climate Change. And to add insult to injury, President Trump is taking money away from fema to send it to the u. S. mexico border, one of the safest places in america today, to try to build a wall or put more kids in cages or try to militarize a problem that we do not have in this country right now. And thats at the expense of the people in South Carolina and florida and North Carolina and puerto rico. So i want to make sure that we fully fund those Disaster Response agencies. I want to make sure that we fully fund predisaster mitigation grants because we know the people of puerto rico are going to see more storms like the ones that theyve seen in the past, only theyre going to be much larger and much deadlier. So we need to invest ahead of time, not afterwards and then the last thing, we need to make sure that the people of puerto rico can determine their future. Now, whether that is independence, whether they want to remain a territory or whether that is a statehood with two u. S. Senators who can go to town for them in the u. S. Congress to bring down the resources that they need, we need to support the people of puerto rico. Thank you for asking. Congressman, as you know, texas has been hit hard by climate disasters recently. You dont have harvey was particularly damaging to houston, texas. Yet it is reported that many people are rebuilding, moving right back into homes into the exact location that are known to flood badly, now and into the future. The question is parts of texas or houston, are there parts that people should simply not live in so that because theyre too risky now . We should help people move when they need to move. When they have repaired the their homes not once, not twice, but three times just in the last five years because houston, texas, the example you gave, has witnessed three 500year storms in five years. They should be good for 1,500 years but theyre not. Because if we listen to the scientists, and i do, we know that those storms are going to become ever more frequent. We were in the cashmere gardens neighborhood with their neighborhood president keith downy. He was showing us some of these homes a year after harvey hit that had still not been rebuilt. On every other lamp post or telephone pole, there was a yellow sign that said, sell your home for cash, and people were. They worked a lifetime to build up the equity into those homes and could no longer afford to rebuild them and they were going to lose them for pennies on the dollar. Lets as americans invest in the people of houston and the southeast of america and every community thats on the front lines of Climate Change. To rebuild where we can and to move where we must. Its not an inexpensive proposition, but what is far more expensive is to continue to pay to rebuild, to measure the cost of Climate Change if we do not meet it in not the billions of trillions of dollars going forward. So lets invest now so we can pay less now than we would have to be just to clarify, are there parts of houston parts of texas where people simply should not live because its too risky . I think there are neighborhoods that have repeatedly flooded. People who would move out of those neighborhoods if they could. They are sick and tired of being flooded and rebuilding, but they cant afford to do that. Thats why under my administration were going to invest the resources that will allow people to move to safer ground, rebuild their homes, their businesses and their lives. All right. I want to move on to daniella, a graduate student studying Environmental Science and policy at columbia university. She currently supports senator elizabeth warren. Daniella . Good evening. Drastic environmental consequences of the Climate Crisis have caused enormous human migration movements for communities in the global south. What would be americas strategy to address the migration and the potential influx of immigrants under your administration . Daniella, thank you for the question, and go lions. Im a columbia grad. Lets begin by acknowledging our culpability and our responsibility connected to that. It is the global north the wealthiest countries in the north that have produced the majority of the Climate Change that we are seeing that is disproportionately impacted not just the global south but countries like the bahamas. What if we started there given the fact they just got pounded by the largest storm we have ever seen. What if we proteoffered tempora protective status to anyone from the bahamas if they want to come and seek shelter and refuge here in the United States of america . What if to those in guatemala who are facing the greatest drought that country has ever seen, what if we dont turn them away from the u. S. mexico border, make them remain juarez people fleeing honor our own asylum laws and the best traditions of this country of immigrants and Asylum Seekers and refugees and allow them to apply for asylum and include as a permissible part of the application those who have been impacted by Climate Change. Its the right thing to do. Its just. Its part of our great tradition as a country of immigrants. And by the way, those who come to this country will reveal their genius here. They will make us better by their very presence. Stronger, more successful and safer, as i can attest, in el paso, texas, one of the safest cities in the United States. A city of immigrants, Asylum Seekers and refugees. Thats the right way to respond. Thank you. Can we follow up on that a little bit . You mentioned Asylum Seekers affected by the Climate Crisis. Currently people who migrant because of the Climate Crisis dont have special protection as refugees under international law. Secretary castro has proposed creating a special category for climate refugees. Would you dot same thing . Yes. As i sajust said, i think that part of our responsibility. And also, we understand the benefit we gain when immigrants and refugees and Asylum Seekers come here. They do great things for themselves and their families. They do great things for all of us. That is what has made us the greatest country on the face of the planet. So i see this as both an obligation, a responsibility but also an opportunity. See that guy staring at you right there . Thats bill weir. Hes our chief Climate Change correspondent. Hes got more questions for you. Coming down to the ninth inning. Congressman, good to see you. A question im sure you hear in texas. To grow 1 pound of beef, it takes 20 times the land and 20 times the Carbon Pollution as 1 pound of plant protein. So as president , how do you think the american diet should change, agriculture should change and to all the carnivores in your state, can they have their steak and eat it, too . Groans. I knew that one was going to die. Thanks for asking the question. The answer is yes, but what we eat, what we consume, how we live is all going to have to reflect the true cost of carbon and Climate Change and pollution. And im confident that those ranchers in texas whom ive visited with and my wife grew up on a cattle ranch in new mexico. Theyre going to be able to meet the targets that we set. I believe in the innigenuity of the american rancher and the american farmer. I believe that we can be up to these challenges and reject any notion that we have to radically or fundamentally change how we eat or what we eat, i just think we have to be more responsible in the way that we do it, and the best way to do that is to allow the market to respond by setting a price on carbon in every single part of our economy, every facet of american life. You got one lady applause. Sitting right in front. Go dairy farmers. Appreciate it. Colin evans is here. He is a phd student at cornell university. Congressman, many candidates on stage tonight and you in the recent past has said that Climate Change is our greatest existential threat. Those are really strong words. And while i agree, i think its important to note why. So im curious to know if youve sat down with climate scientists to discuss whats actually going on, if you have a climate scientist on your staff and do you fully understand the fundamental physical problems of greenhouse warming . Yeah. Thank you for asking the question. Yes, ive listened to and read the work that scientists produced. 300 years after the enlightenment, i think theyre the best subject Matter Experts on what were talking about today. So i believe in that science and in the truth and in the facts, and thats reflected in the policy that weve adopted, the proposals that we make, the 5 trillion that we want to be able to activate over the next ten years to meet this existential threat, but i also read a book that changed fundamentally how i look at this. Uninhabitable earth which describes the consequences of our inaction, which says that in the year 2100 when my 8yearold son henry is going to be 88 years old, this planet will have warmed 4. 5 to 5 degrees celsius. As Scientists Say at that point we are screwed. We will not be able to live in the places that we call home today. There will be a fierce competition for resources on this planet. Wars that were precipitated by Climate Change like syria will pale in comparison to the wars that we see in the future. And if you think that apprehending 400,000 at the u. S. mexico border last year was a big number, wait until some parts of the western hemisphere can no longer support human life. Because thats exactly where we are headed unless we decide to change course now. Ten years left to us. Not as democrats or republicans or even as americans, but as human civilization. We do not have any room for error. So i will continue to listen to those scientists. They will be part of the team leading the oveffort in my administration and we will be up to this challenge and overcome it. Thank you for asking. Appreciate it. Another video question from annie. Great. Youre from an oilrich state. How does your climate plan create opportunity for people whose economies have relied on fossil fuels like oil towns in texas and coal towns in West Virginia . What do you say to people who think green energy threatens their way of life and financial future and how will you get them on board with your plan . Great question. I come from an oil and gasrich state. I come from a wind and sunrich state. We lead the country in the amount of Wind Generation that we produce. We will soon lead the country when it comes to Solar Energy Generation in our state. Weve invested in the transit n transmission lines and the infrastructure that makes it possible. And by the way, the high skill, the high value, the high wage jobs that come along with that. The best way to answer her question is to go to those towns that are at the center of the oil and gas industry. Thats what ive been doing across the state of texas. Listening to those who work in the oil fields about what their future holds. Listen, they care just as much about this issue as any one of us do. They just want to know that theyll be made whole, that theyll be okay, that they can receive the education and training necessary to transition into those wind or solar jobs or some other career or profession. They want to know that were going to elevate the role of unions, create 5 million apprenticeships over the next ten years to make sure that we have the skills, the trade to command those high skill, high wage jobs that we can create in this country if we only set our minds to it. Last week i was in bland county, virginia. This is part of coal country in the southwestern part of the state. I was told by those at the town hall meeting that no president ial candidate from either party has ever been to bland county before. Many of them worked in the coal industry. Know that thats not the future of this country but want to make sure that we protect their pensions and their health care and that we electrify or connect their communities to broadband internet, which theyre missing right now, which they know is fundamental towards completing an education, looking for a job, starting a small business. Those aspects of modern life that many of us take for granted that are missing from many parts of this country right now. They too will be first in line in our investments to make sure that we make everyone whole as we transition this economy and this country to meet the greatest challenge that weve ever faced. All right. Lets talk about offshore drilling for oil. Would you ban it . Yes, absolutely. Going to follow the lead of Joe Cunningham in South Carolina. Who is going to make sure that we do not destroy our heritage, that we do not foul our beaches and our opportunity to attract tourism to South Carolina, and that we stop putting oil wells along our coastal areas. The people of texas and louisiana know all too well the price of offshore drilling. When we make mistakes, they are big ones and they are hard to reverse, theyre hard to clean up, they damage those communities, the wildlife, the economies of those parts of the world. So no new oil and gas leases offshore. No new oil and gas leases on federally protected lands. All existing leases will reflect the true costs of pollution, Climate Change and carbon. I think thats the best way to keep that oil and gas in the ground and make sure that we fully free ourselves from a dependance on fossil fuels. Finally i want to ask you, the biggest personal sacrifice that youre asking quickly if you can, youre asking americans to make to solve this Climate Crisis. Im asking americans to make this our priority as a country. One of the reasons i love the framing of the Green New Deal is it uses some of the language we might associate with the way that we met the response of nazi germany in world war ii. All of this country coming together with a singular focus of making sure that we overcome what was at that time an existential threat to this country and to to our democracy, and by the way, lifting millions of people out of poverty and creating what was at the time the worlds greatest middle class, creating the worlds greatest country in the process. We call them now the greatest generation. That could be our opportunity right here in 2019, and in this election that will decide in 2020. I know americans are up to the challenge because ive been listening to americans all across this country. 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