pollution. they unveiled this sculpture in paris saturday. it represents an oil derrick churning out an endless supply chain of plastic bottles. it is called the perpetual plastic machine. it is an installation trying to highlight the connection between fossil fuel production and plastic production. plastic pa lutes during its entire life cycle. this idea that plastic cans be recycled infinitely is only kind of half true. because every single year, we produce 300 million tons of plastic. the installation was unveiled ahead of the u.n. conference in paris where delegates will try to come up with a legally binding pact to eliminate plastic waste. a belarusian tennis player is defending the ukrainian opponent who refused to shake her hand. it happens at the end of this
impacts of these climate alterations and both adapting to these impacts. and act with climate policies that can directly impact the causes of the climate crisis. so stop fossil fuel production, projects and everything that favours climate alteration and climate impacts, which also intensifies both the frequency and violence of these extreme weather events. we are almost out extreme weather events. we are almost out of extreme weather events. we are almost out of time, extreme weather events. we are almost out of time, but - extreme weather events. we are almost out of time, but do - extreme weather events. we are almost out of time, but do you i extreme weather events. we are - almost out of time, but do you think what has happened in italy will make a difference to that overall push you hoping for? i a difference to that overall push you hoping for? a difference to that overall push you hoping for? i would hope so, es. you hoping for? i would hope so, yes. unfortunately, you
administration can, before this gets legally changed because, by the way, paul, it s going to be legally challenged. if you thought the obama power plan that the supreme court shut down last year was an overreach of power, this makes that look like, you know, child s play. paul: is that the only way to stop this, jason? i mean, would be a legal challenge? because there is a real question of whether this i mean, the clean air act never mandated that power plants have to go to renewables from fossil fuels, never did that, okay? so this could be challenged in court. and i think it will be challenged, and and that might be the only way to stop it with a democrat in the white house and them having control of partover of congress. part of congress. the other thing i point out is this is all being done in the name of climate change, paul, that if we we reduce our carbon footprint, it will make a big difference. it won t. china and india are ramping up their fossil fuel production. it will
that s a cool state, my home state. your thoughts on the argument he is making question. i think it is the right argument. the united states is the greatest forces for economic growth in the greatest forces for clean fossil fuel production they change the world in a lot of ways. not just by providing heat and transportation. it really economic security as well. if you put that altogether denies its energy producer does not get enough credit for all the good they do in the world. this ought to get a quick look at the strategic petroleum levels. we know they have been deployed to a certain extent. and here we are the cusps of summer. last summer we saw gas pumping up to $5 a gallon. the tools is a byte demonstration have left to do with what could be another tough
does that. but samantha, just to follow up on that, is it important for the us, as one of the world s biggest polluters, to set an example for the rest of the world to not move forward with these big fossil fuel projects? it is a really tough question. i see your point on setting an example. i also know that we are likely to have greener, cleanerfossil fuel production than some of the other places that oil would come from. i think we need to phase out fossil fuel production over time. do we focus on the supply or demand side? i think it is more effective to focus policies on demand because that really eliminates emissions rather than transferring them somewhere else. speaking of demand, we saw the un secretary general during the summit today pointing to the fact that the ukraine russia conflict has changed the energy supply, the energy market. how much has it shifted climate goals as well? i think it is a little early to say at this point.