to jerry brown, the longest serving governor in california history. thank you. in june 2017 when president trump announced that the united states was withdrawing from the paris climate accord brown sidestepped the federal government forging his own environmental pacts with leaders all over the world. i m not the president, but i am the governor of the biggest state and we re not standing by ourselves. in fact, 175 states and regions are representing over a billgen people, they have all joined our coalition. the feud between brown and president trump continued in 2018 against the backdrop of the largest wildfire in california history. on twitter, president trump partially blamed california water policy for the blaze. brown vehemently disputed the president s claims. some of the president s statements have no attachment to to facts. they re untethered, and they
dozens of lawsuits against the federal government challenging everything from the travel ban to birth control to fuel economy standards. brown not one to mince words vowed to fight what he deemed the quote stupidity of some of the administration s environmental policies. this is fundamental issue. this issue of climate change. it is a threat to organized human existence. maybe not in my life. i ll be dead, but when i m 79, do i have five years more, ten years more, 15? i don t know. 20? i don t know if i can wait that long. but most of you people when i look down here, a lot of you people are going to be alive. brown is currently one of the loudest voices in the fight against climate change and has been since the 1970s when his environmental positions them made him an outlier in american politics. we re killing the oceans, we re killing the lakes. now there s a new timeliness
it s about making sure they don t get in our way as we move forward. the policies of donald trump prompted brown to speak out against the president with regularity. increasing the visibility of the governor and keeping california on the front line between the administration and progressive causes. i can t think of two more opposite people than donald trump and jerry brown. jerry quite literally is the antidote to trump. he s always above the fray and thinking in terms of a generation or two ahead. the united states will withdraw from the paris climate accord. the climate skeptics that don t quite get it, they re on political pluto, and we re going to have to bring them back to earth. we need a president, we need a federal government, but they re right off frolicking on a detour, not coming to grips with this problem and many other
then descended into the darkest depths of nonexistitance in politics, and now here he is on the cusp of getting back the biggest governorship in the country. governor of california at 72 years old. it is really one of the ultimate come back stories if he can pull it off. brown appealed directly to the public on youtube. no more puffy slogans and platitudes. you deserve the truth, and that s what you ll get from me. some people said, oh, jerry again, ho-hum. but a lot of younger voters said jerry brown, wonderful. he s going to shake-up the political establishment. now, how you can be viewed as a person who s going to shake-up the political establishment when you ve been governor for eight years and you re the son of a governor, i don t know. one newspaper compared him, but his republican opponent
as the years passed the family expanded to include. he fills out the family tree and he find every one of the relatives who are alive and call them up, and he goes over and visits them. and they re i think just in shock that here s the governor of california. brown inherited his inquisitiveness from his mother, bernice lane, a san francisco captain s police daughter who graduated from uc berkeley at 19. his admission came from his father known by his constituents at pat. california s governor from 1959 to 1967. pat brown was very interested in building california infrastructure. he opened three university of california campuses in one year, 1965. he built freeways as fast as he could. he built the great california canal that ships water from northern to southern california. he worked hard at building the