further, you want to subsidize the new labor that s going to come in when you free the slaves. somehow you ve got to incentivize the new labor. i m not talking about civil war. i m talking about civilization. when we re looking at the united states, the richest 400 are richer than the poorest. this is a key point. concentrated wealth and concentrated energy are not unrelated problems. in fact, they are essentially different sides of the same coin. josh fox, dan dicker, thank you so much. happy earth day. thank you. thank you. coming up, for all their talk there s a simple two-word phrase some haven t uttered on record in years. i ll tell you that phrase next. life with crohn s disease or ulcerative colitis
but it s earth day so can i give the good news? yes. the good news is that actually it is possible under today s technology, the wind and the sun and other forms of renewable energy, to get to 100% of our power generation needs. i have started a nonprofit called the solutions project which work with stanford university scientist mark jacobson to map out how you get to 100% renewable energy. and it s within our grasp technologically. so what we re talking about is exploitation. it begs the question, what is money worth when there s no civilization? that is the question i think about. that only operates within a stable civilization. it s not worth anything. we must make this transition as you laid out so beautifully. what s amazing about this is we actually have the technology to do it right now. well, we have the technology, the problem is that the oil
come in when you free the slaves. somehow you ve got to incentivize the new labor. i m not talking about civil war. i m talking about civilization. when we re looking at the united states, the richest 400 are richer than the poorest. this is a key point. concentrated wealth and concentrated energy are not unrelated problems. in fact, they are essentially different sides of the same coin. josh fox, dan dicker, thank you so much. happy earth day. thank you. thank you. coming up, for all their talk there s a simple two-word phrase some haven t uttered on record in years. i ll tell you that phrase next. i procrastinated on.
it needs to stay there. we cannot take it out. it is the red line. in this case, the reason the pipeline is so important is that without that investment, without that capital expenditure to build that pipeline, it doesn t make much sense to take all the stuff out. that s the weakness. that s the weakness being attacked and that needs to be replicated times a thousand. so happy earth day. joining me now congressman hakim jeffreys, democrat from new york. congressman, one of the reasons i love talking to you is you re relatively new to capitol hill. you retain a bit of an outsider s view on it. yes, i do. what is the keystone fight about from where you stand operating capitol hill as you do? i think you did a great job of laying out the stakes, but as far as i m concerned, in terms of climate change, it is a reality that we have to address. and we have to address the reality that is closely connected to the fact that big money interests do stand behind
there was a time when republicans, even ones who fought against environmental regulation, paid at least a little lip service to earth day. let me compliment the house of representatives on this earth day 1999 on a bipartisan basis. those days are over. in fact, according to a search of the congressional record by the sunlight foundation, republicans in congress haven t uttered the words earth day since lamar alexander said it in 2010. mr. president, today is earth day. and that s just a small glimpse of a much larger and more dangerous trend. the republican party marching backwards on the environment and climate change. because it wasn t always this way. as far back as 1988, dan quayle promised a republican ticket would deal with the dangers of climate change. the greenhouse effect is an important environmental issue. it is important for us to get the data in to see what alternatives we might have to fossil fuels.