On washington journal. Republican of arkansas in the member of Natural Resources committee in the house. Also a supporter of was being called the trees act. An effort that was made more public by President Trump supported at the dominos World Economic forum. What does this act propose. This is an act, to put the tree across the globe. By 2050. Trees. Trillion it is a whole lot more though, our biggest full that we have, as far as mitigating climate issues, and will meet utilize those for us and keep from sustainable and working in active, really have the best tool that is out there that is widespread, natural and is very economical to have this carbon atmosphere from the forest. You come to us as a forrester yourself. The only graduate of yale, with the master of four street there. This mustve been sort of like music to your ears when you heard the president getting behind this effort. It. It is something that is near and dear to me. If you look at the planet, theres about treat 3 tril
Cities on any combination of all fuels and all to energy and im afraid its going to come as a is a big disappointment to the American Public the main reason for that is you really cant fabricate the quitman for all these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy platform for that to happen under and unfortunately this is the country has not figured that out including a lot of pretty intelligent people and people with good intentions you know wed love to keep running our stuff the way were running it now by other means its just really unlikely to happen you know this combines 2 things that are really should be combined one is Climate Change denial the green part and one is that governments can possibly do. I think positive the new deal part so these are 2 areas that the predominant Political Forces like to tell us are socialist or theyre impossible or we dont have the money for them so all the branding on this is horrible is there a way to prese
Now tell us what do you think of a Green New Deal is it a great jobs program is it a bad jobs program is it a good reason to have a deal. When you wish upon the star program because you know weve entered a kind of period in our history which is a era of Wishful Thinking and i think the truth of the matter is unfortunately were not going to run while disney world the u. S. Military suburbia the interstate highway system. And our great metroplex cities on any combination of all fuels and all to energy and im afraid its going to come as a is a big disappointment to the American Public the main reason for that is you really cant fabricate the equipment for all. All these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy platform for that to happen under and unfortunately this is the country has not figured that out including a lot of pretty intelligent people and people with good intentions you know wed love to keep running our stuff the way were running i
A bad jobs program is that a good reason to have a deal its see when you wish upon the star program because you know weve entered a kind of period in our history which is a era of Wishful Thinking and i think the truth of the matter is unfortunately were not going to run while disney world the u. S. Military suburbia the interstate highway system. And our great metroplex cities on any combination of all to fuel and all to energy and im afraid its going to come as a is a big disappointment to the American Public the main reason for that is you really cant fabricate the quitman for all these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy platform for that to happen under and unfortunately. This is the country has not figured that out including a lot of pretty intelligent people and people with good intentions you know wed love to keep running our stuff the way were running it now by other means its just really unlikely to happen you know this combines
Be combined one is Climate Change denial the green part and one is that governments can possibly do anything positive the new deal part so these are 2 areas that the predominant Political Forces like to tell us are socialist or theyre impossible or we dont have the money for them so all the branding on this is horrible is there a way to present this that would be more palatable because clearly infrastructure needs to be upgraded that thats something that i need to do somebody needs to do it but and its crumbling how is that going to happen and clearly what Sea Levels Rising and with asif occasion of the oceans and with all the other problems that come with the toxicity of industrialization there is a problem in the climate how to brand this in a better way maybe why do you think branding is a Green New Deal is a bad idea the new deal was a vast a successful idea and one of the problems i think that weve had in america is not having aspirational programs that we had in the past that act