[ laughter ] no, you think i m kidding. it s almost not there now but anyway. our next question is from daniel sweeney, a student at colombia law school that voted for president trump. he plans to change parties and vote for a democrat in the next election. daniel, welcome. china is current [ laughter ] china is currently the largest emitter of co 2. how, if at all, would you get china to lower emissions as president? i would make it clear we have to bring around the rest of the world. we have to reconfigure what is going on. what we did the paris account that they signed on to, it was agreed that we would constantly up the ante, the nations would agree to contention upon what the science dictates and the extent of the problem. it has to be, we have to up the ante what s going on number one. number two, any nation that doesn t do that for example, what china is doing, they are exporting, they are exporting coal technology and building coal plants on their road area. they ar
accumulating so rapidly but this president pays no attention to it. so what are we doing? is going on right now? i want to ask you about the green new deal . in your plan you say it s a crucial frame work for meeting the challenges we face and two basic truths we need to combat with ambition on an epic scale and the environment and economy are in your words completely and totally connected. you re not saying you support everything in the original green new deal. does it go too far? is it unrealistic. it doesn t have a lot of specifics but exactly what we ll do with regard to greenhouse gases and it doesn t have specifics of what programs you will initiate to be able to deal with getting net zero emission. what are the things we should be doing. where should the focus be?
other countries are going to be following it. he s dead wrong across the board on basically everything. i m not being facetious. we have to choose since ovcienc fantasy here. the fact of the matter what he did by removing the united states as the leader, the paris climate accord, he in fact dissipated the enthusiasm across the board, the rest of the country says wait a minute. why are we engaged in this if the united states is stepping down? we re in a position where we put that together and i was the one that suggested to president obama, i don t want to confuse presidents here, president obama that china would be part of this effort after i came back from a long meeting with ping. as we have pulled out there is no leadership. i was president today, i would
prevent climate catastrophe. how will you prioritize climate change action if you become president? first of all, in defense of president obama, everything landed on his desk but locus. we were heading toward, we had the greatest financial catastrophe in the world short of a depression. nothing occurred like that before. it was getting america out of a ditch. we were in real, real trouble. we began a period of economic growth. he moved on on health care because he thought it was so important that it happened at the time. what from the beginning he also moved to deal with cafe standards, he pushed very hard, he s the reason why we have the paris climate accord. that s how we got it. no other president came close to doing anything like that. but there is much, much more that need be done. at the time that accord was signed, we talked about well, we ll reach by 40% by this. the fact is we ve learned a great deal more, the sciences
of, $2.3 i think billion worth of, excuse me, $500 billion in savings and 2.something billion met trick tons of co 2 going in the air. we should do it across the board. we should i propose we have 500,000 charging stations in the new green economy. we should own, we should own the electric vehicle market. we should raise the cafe standards back to where they were that would save 12 billion gallons of oil to begin with and move beyond. i think we should be in fact doubling what we re doing immediately with regard to solar and wind. i would make sure that we and i d go on from there but the bottom line is to set in place standards that cannot be walked away from when in fact the next president if someone else comes along does what trump tries to do. that s an important point. how do you what can you do that president obama couldn t to