chris christie, before the bridge-gate, completely formidable nightmare for democrats. and i mean, this guy is fud di, he s aggressive. he s got this bizarre charm and then a bridge fell on him. worst case of playing it coy. hillary clinton. despite putting out a big book, she still won t say what everyone thinks they know. of course, hillary clinton is going to run. marijuana fared well in state initiatives as well as the environmental and higher minimum wages. what do we want? best continuing trend for rights activists? this was a really big year for gay rights. a lot of gay marriage. worst continuing trend for environmentalis environmentalists. biggest story of the year, we didn t do much on climate change. best news from the benjamins. housing values are still rising, joblessness still falling. it s a great year in terms of economic recovery. the recovery has done well. worst part of that great
dangerous way of sucking gas out of the ground. it is marvelous. without energy life ceases to exist. we need more of it not less of it. what brought you around? the truth brought me around. i discovered a lot of environmentalis environmentalists who are scaring us tol death are finding this out. they take good water not filled with good stuff shoot it into the wells to pores out a gas. a tear finds its way into the lining poisonous paper am find a way into your lung and poise news vapors find in their gas. the fluid has carsyn genl.
calls a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and extreme ie dee logs to compete with what he calls scientific facts. so what do those on the other side of the issue say in response to this? reporter: some express concern about cost and whether these governments can truly make a difference in what may be huge weather cycles. there are also lawmakers who say president obama and his allies tried cap and trade to address the issue, and it failed. some critics say the weather hasn t lived up to the environmentalis environmentalists story line. every elementary school kid today has only experienced a slight global cooling, according to satellite data. so when you have your great narrative remember the old narrative of al gore was the plan that had a fever. when you can no longer promote that theory about the runaway temperatures, you ve got to switch. reporter: so he says global warming language is now out, and it s all about climate change. gretchen? all right. messaging seems to
consumer actions. we are looking at the things we throw away. about 55% of what we throw away ends up in landfills. a third of it gets recycled. 12% of it goes to being combu combusted for energy. green tote bags and not plastic water bottles. have we thought enough about transportation and sustainable land uses? when we think about environmentalis environmentalists, how do we make that move? the irony here is because of the socioeconomic status of our communities of color, they are a lot greener when it comes to using public transportation. but, i think that when it comes to how do we push that envelope in terms of community of color, coming to an awareness is making