climate change is a problem without borders. rising sea levels threaten the existence of 17 million people in glaciers in the himalayas will leave pakistan and india facing water shortages. air pollution in china is so bad it s been compared to living in an airport smoking lounge. china s carbon emissions are up 240%, with no end in sight. private car ownership doubled from 2005 to 2008 and the country is now the world s largest auto producer and market. global energy use is expected to grow. we ve got a billion people in china all looking to buy cars. they re building coal-fired plants at a ferocious pace. from those being off the grid and on the grid is growing exponentially. across the developing world, people are fueling up and plugging in at an unprecedented
fire down, it is only 7% contained. now back to the power of politic with chris hayes. for too long our national leaders have spent too much time talking about addressing our fossil fuel addiction and too little time doing something about it. that is until president obama decided it finally take action in a land fall speech in climate change. i m announcing a new national climate action plan and i m here to enlist your generation s help in keeping the united states of america a leader. a global leader in the fight against climate change. from the great depression to fighting fascism to the space race, the solutions and money to tackle our greatest challenges have often come from one place, washington. so too must a solution for climate change. without government support and yes, funding of industry and
clearer that the worse changes were in evidence and there is a evidence of a shift in problem but managing through regular ligs and taxation that won t go to the heart of their own investment in oil and gas. it is part of the reason they are investing in oil and gas because they resume that eventually the collective wisdom of the united states will impose a price on cab carbon as response to the result of climate change and once you start to price carbon, then goal which is already unfavorable for a number of reasons will become more so. one of the biggest challenges we face is just the sheer cost and diffusion of fossil fuel infrastructure. what is the path forward for that? we can t leave that behind at one level but we have to transition quite a bit. right. a profound observation and the heart of the problem. the first thing you have to do
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