climate crisis? some of it is manmade. there is no doubt about it. you got more users using the water out of the colorado river. you ve got more you deposit more of everything than you had 50 years ago. it is that simple. would you label your business a victim of drought? we have had to change obviously the way we do a lot of things. at this point, i would not say we re a victim. i would say we re an adapter. reporter: and from now on, it seems, anyone who wants to live in the american southwest will have to be an adapter. bill weir, cnn, paige, arizona. bill, thank you. and thank you for watching, everyone. our live coverage continues with john vause. your energy goes into the fruits and ththe vegetables that you re growing. find m more ways to grow at miracle-gro.com
limitations would be basically that it focuses a lot on denial of climate change and i think we re at a point where a majority of people do believe manmade climate change is happening and what needs to be done about it, but we of what we need is build a political movement that actually realizes a need for change. zeeshan aleim, thank you, happy new year to you. that wraps it up for me, i will turn it over now to reverend al sharpton and politics nation. good evening, and welcome to politics nation. tonight s lead, new year, new beginnings and i m ready for a
people, what we say, marching toward starvation. the number spiked to 135 pre-covid because of manmade climate change. covid will come down. economies will move again strongly. so we have a one-time crisis. if we don t, brianna, do this, i ll tell you what is going to happen. it s not just that people will die. you re also talking about destabilization of nations and mass migration, which is a hundred times more expensive than the $6 billion. in fact, it could be a thousand times more. i ll give you a simple example in central america. recently, i saw on the washington post where they had an article that the united states was spending $60 million a week at a cost of $3,750 per person, children and teenagers in shelters. that same child back in d guatemala, we can do it $1 to $2 a week.
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them. add it all up, and if cows were a country, they would be third behind china and the u.s., in the creation of planet-cooking pollution. what is the national cattlemen s beef association, where do you stand on manmade climate change and your industry s role in it? we represent over 250,000 family-owned farms and ranches across the u.s. and we are committed to being part of the climate solution. beef is a safe, affordable, and nutritious product that consumers love, and it s one they can feel good about eating. the fact is this is the most destructive industry on earth. reporter: but according to the gentleman in the no cows t-shirt, that is impossible. the greatest threat that humans have ever faced is primarily due to the use of animals as a food technology. reporter: pat brown was a professor at stanford medical school, until he realized that a big part of the climate story is a food story.