it s purposeful and deliberate. it s a deliberate campaign of deception that s leading us literally to an apocalypse. i want you to listen this. this is how trump described his position on climate change. i m still open minded. nobody really knows. look, i m somebody that gets it. and nobody really knows. it s not something that s so hard and fast. i do know this. other countries are eating our lunch. so how do you unpack that? is he open minded or a climate change skeptic? well, i think the last statement he made is kind of a canard. the best thing we can do, all the things we need to do, don, so avert catastrophic climate change are the same things we need to do to safeguard our
but let s step back a moment because we re too consumed with the idea who is up and down at the moment. what s really going on here is a fundamental breakdown, not of obama, not of congress, but of the entire government. we have a government that simply isn t functioning to meet our most serious problems. immigration reform, which seems like it is so obvious, the american people are behind it. that s stalled. we re doing nothing on what may be humanity s greatest challenge, catastrophic climate change and the republicans aren t willing to work with the president to fix the affordable care act, they want to all of these things become road blocks in the next three years of this white house, talking immigration reform, talking about real road blocks with confirmation hearings, we re seeing that already from the federal appellate court level, perhaps even the federal reserve.
forms of energy generation carry risk. nuclear carries risk as we have dramatically seen in the last couple of days. fossil fuels also carry risk. the risk of catastrophic climate change. renewables, which i absolutely support a lot of research and development and funding for, right now carry the risk of not being able to produce enough energy. we can t look for a risk-free solution for producing energy. and that i think has to be the starting point for the debate. how do we minimize risk? finally, ambassador, do you think we re getting the truth out of the japanese authorities? i do, but lets me make a point. you asked about the earthquake, the japanese survived after that but what went wrong was the post disaster cooling system. let me provide great reassurance to publics around the world. that is modern reactors that are
risk. nuclear carries risk as we have dramatically seen in the last couple of days. fossil fuels also carry risk. the risk of catastrophic climate change. renewables, which i absolutely support a lot of research and development and funding for, right now carry the risk of not being able to produce enough energy. we can t look for a risk-free solution for producing energy. and that i think has to be the starting point for the debate. how do we minimize risk? finally, ambassador, do you think we re getting the truth out of the japanese authorities? i do, but lets me make a point. you asked about the earthquake, the japanese survived after that but what went wrong was the post disaster cooling system. let me provide great reassurance to publics around the world. that is modern reactors that are being designed and built all
nuclear carries risk as we have dramatically seen in the last couple of days. fossil fuels also carry risk. the risk of catastrophic climate change. renewables, which i absolutely support a lot of research and development and funding for, right now carry the risk of not being able to produce enough energy. we can t look for a risk-free solution for producing energy. and that i think has to be the starting point for the debate. how do we minimize risk? finally, ambassador, do you think we re getting the truth out of the japanese authorities? i do, but piers, let me make a point. you asked about the earthquake, the japanese survived after that but what went wrong was the post shutdown cooling system. let me point to the future and provide an important fact that will provide freight reassurance i think to publics all around the world, and that is modern reactors that are now being designed and built all around