signed a $1.9 trillion bill, that bill is being called a coronavirus relief measure. joe biden didn t take any questions after he signed it, plan on taking questions tonight. that s not surprising, joe biden has not held a press conference since taking office, the longest and least a century a president has waited. our leaders no longer believe they have to justify spending nearly $2 trillion even though it s more than the entire gross domestic product of canada. it is triple all federal spending during the entire new deal and counting for inflation. nothing like this has ever happened. you would think we d be able to ask him questions about it. in a functioning democracy, our reporters demand that joe biden this coronavirus are relief bill includes race-based land reform that does not seem american at all. they also might ask why we are apportioning billions of dollars to pay off debt for farmers with certain skin colors. is that legal? we just did it. and asked joe biden
i mean, you say financing adaptation is 90% more cost effective than paying for the increasingly frequent disaster responses that we have to indulge in, everything from forest fires to flooding and hurricane relief. you say it s so obvious, but how can you actually prove that? let me just give you an example from the field. recently i was in makueni. where is that? in kenya. when you sit with a farmer who is using drought tolerant crops, amidst the worst drought in the last a0 years, and what you see when these sort of new technologies are used, you see that the yield is going up, not down, so that farmer is in a position to bring food to the table, even amidst this climate emergency, so the 500 million smallholder farmers in the world, these solutions from makueni needs to be brought to the rest of africa. in fact, to the rest
i mean, you say financing adaptation is 90% more cost effective than paying for the increasingly frequent disaster responses that we have to indulge in, everything from forest fires to flooding and hurricane relief. you say it s so obvious, but how can you actually prove that? let me just give you an example from the field. recently i was in makueni. where is that? in kenya. when you sit with a farmer who is using drought tolerant crops, amidst the worst drought in the last a0 years, and what you see when these sort of new technologies are used, you see that the yield is going up, not down, so that farmer is in a position to bring food to the table, even amidst this climate emergency, so the 500 million smallholder farmers in the world, these solutions from makueni needs to be brought to the rest of africa.
can you verify that? i mean, you say financing adaptation is 90% more cost effective than paying for the increasingly frequent disaster responses that we have to indulge in, everything from forest fires to flooding and hurricane relief. you say it s so obvious, but how can you actually prove that? let me just give you an example from the field. recently i was in makueni. where is that? in kenya. when you sit with a farmer who is using drought tolerant crops, amidst the worst drought in the last a0 years, and what you see when these sort of new technologies are used, you see that the yield is going up, not down, so that farmer is in a position to bring food to the table, even amidst this climate emergency, so the 500 million smallholder farmers in the world, these solutions from makueni needs
you need to deliver to us enough gas from the other lines, the other streams, and that is why we say, for this to happen, we need to be united, and we need to show solidarity to each other. i need to pressure you more on this payment mechanism. it is not just about saying that we will not give russia roubles, there is a financial run around, which it seems clear some big european energy companies and indeed nations like hungary are prepared to indulge in, to play russia s game, they will put money in euros into a russian bank account, but at the same time will set up an account in roubles and have the money converted and the roubles will then be sent to gazprom. it is a financial fix. are you going to do that financial fix, to ensure that you keep getting russian gas for now? as i said, we are the advocates for unity and solidarity. i heard what you said. i will explain what i mean by that. what you re asking, that is