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high-dollar donors in california. the president appeared to be leaning towards approval. calling the politics of the environment tough. with democratic donors breathing down his back. environmental activists organizing around the country and congress urging approval and two-thirds of americans in favor of the pipeline, the president has a point, politics are tough. but now might be the moment to combat climate change. earlier this year, time magazine wrote keystone isn t the best fight to have over fossil fuels, but it s the fight we re having. if we re in war to stop global warming, we need to fight it on the beaches, the landing zones and the carbon-spewing tar sands of alberta there are many climate problems a president can t solve, but keystone isn t one of them. it s a choice between big oil and a more sustainable planet. the right answer isn t always somewhere in the middle. joining us from san francisco is executive director of the sierra club, michael bruin, thanks for joinin
take where the secretary of state could end up sort of blunting some of this. and say it is technically through them. but i think it is more likely than not that it gets approved. michael, this is the thing that i think is endlessly frustrating. the positioning global warming as an environmental issue, not an economic issue. especially when the jobs numbers around the keystone pipeline range from 35 permanent jobs to 250,000. they re all over the place, having that as sort of the foundational argument here seems to be flawed at best. then you couple that with the economic impact of climate change. people whose jobs, people whose farms were affected. people whose jobs were lost, their profits were down. that s a very measurable economic impact. and yet, the white house doesn t seem to sort of wrap its arms around that argument that well. it s a fascinating thing. because what s happening is that almost everybody doesn t wrap their arms around the idea that this is an economic issue
michael before we let you go, i think the irony is that john kerry is our secretary of state, this decision is apparently on his desk. his first speech on secretary of state was about climate change. how much is this going to be a referendum on his ability to keep the flame burning on the subject of sensible energy reform? it s a huge decision that, that secretary kerry needs to make. not only was his first speech as secretary, passionate and eloquent about climate change, but his previous 1,000 speeches on climate change as senator. he s had a fantastic record as one of the strongest, most eloquent and far-sighted leaders on climate change. and it s, we think it s a huge opportunity for the secretary and his new position, to say that this is a national security issue. fighting climate change. it s an international issue. but we can t just talk about it. we can t just issue a regulation through epa, every six months or so. we actually have to fight. if we want to defeat climate chang
0 was something that she embodied and she and reagan did so well. thomas, to jamie s point, margaret thatcher allowed the americans to place cruise missiles on uk soil for the first time for that very purpose. and that s why the americans perspective on margaret thatcher, baroness thatcher is so warm because on foreign policy, she was extremely impressive. jamie is being slightly polite and modest. he was actually working with vice president joe biden who then was a senator. at the time when the berlin wall came down in 1989. she was very effective in that area. of course, she had the victory over the faulklands war in 1982, as well. but domestically, she was a far less revered figure. she was much more devising and living in britain at the time it was impossible to be indifferent about margaret thatcher. she was loved by some. she was loathed by a large number, too. what does that mean to the because she was the longest serving british prime minister of the 20th century and the on