examining where we live, how we travel, and what we eat. we ll show you some of the paths for tackling the climate crisis, meeting the innovators, action takers and climate heroes who are truly making a difference. coming up this week. what happens after we pull the plug on oil and gas? we travel to oil country, to see the teams cleaning up our fossil fuel past. lessons from the first us city to run on 100% renewable energy. reaching for the skies. how new fuels can help green our air travel. plus, can we reallyjust get power out of thin air? well, we ll speak to one scientist who says he s doing just that. we start with a look at why our transition to a greenerfuture can mean dealing with the legacy of our past. fossilfuels, like oil and gas, have been powering the world for decades, but they often leave behind facilities that continue to pollute long after they ve been shut down. i travelled to america s forgotten oil country to meet the people sealing off our abandoned wel
a clean energy revolution is under way as we turn the page on fossil fuels, and turn towards renewables. from solar panels to wind turbines, we are rolling out green energy faster than ever, because the way we power our planets could decide its future and ours. i m carl nasman, and this is future earth. welcome to the new series, shining a light on the simple real world solutions we already have to help us solve the biggest challenge of our lifetimes. each week, we ll be taking you on a journey from our forests to the oceans, examining where we live, how we travel, and what we eat. we ll show you some of the paths for tackling the climate crisis, meeting the innovators, action takers and climate heroes who are truly making a difference. coming up this week. what happens after we pull the plug on oil and gas? we travel to oil country, to see the teams cleaning up our fossil fuel past. lessons from the first us city to run on 100% renewable energy. reaching for the skies. h
republican presidential candidates want to keep us stuck in the fossil fuel past, and he used this anecdote about a former president to make that point. one of my predecessors, rutherford b. hayes, reportedly said about the telephone, a great invention, but who would ever want to use one? [laughter] you know, that, that s why he s not on mount rushmore. [laughter] because he s looking backwards, he s not looking forwards. [cheers and applause] reporter: the president also called for an end to $4 billion in subsidies to the oil companies. of course, the oil companies have said long, for a long time that that is a mischaracterization. quoting from the api s site, the policy s underlying costs in the tax code legitimately utilized by the oil and natural gas industry are no different than those for any other industry