vegetables year-round. you go back to the village and they re well-fed and earning income with the produce they sell to the market. we have a model providing access to energy, but water and food and income and women s empowerment. i m just wondering when you think about telephone, the developing world kind of leapfrogged the u.s. in terms of the poles and water to mobile. do you see the same thing in energy? these folks in africa went straight to 21st century technology. wireless power, right? they re bypassing the distribution lines. you don t need to run transmission lines to the victim a villages. wherever the sun shines you can generate power for whatever you need. it s worth emphasizing if they go the other way, if they go the central fossil fuel generation and big transmission line model in the developing world, we are toast.
my point is often the industry will point to regulatory bars that they have to clear and say, look, we have to clear these bars. those regulatory bars don t come around and sprout out of the ground. they come back about political mobilization. and there s states like new york. tanya fields and huny blake of director of environmental affairs for hometown energy group. that was a great discussion. i want to continue it in the future. david, you mentioned something about the pay that fossil fuel extraction can change the political, economic facts on a place. the u.s. is on tract to become energy independent. why that s bad news after this. ! bring it back! bring it home! [ male announcer ] when you combine creamy velveeta with zesty rotel tomatoes and green chilies, you get a bowl of queso that makes even this get-together better.
parliamentian in germany that got this passed last year. i asked him, this one law is like a lever transforming one of the biggest industrial economies in the world. how in the world did you make this happen? especially relative to the frozen politics in the u.s. he s like, we passed it in 2000, and everybody laughed at me and thought it was trivial. everybody thought it s not going to make a material difference to anything. it they didn t pay attention. the big utilities in germany are just as opposed. this snuck it in and it ratcheted germany to make big decisions. it s basically for the person with aa wind turbine or solar panel, it gives them the incentives and guaranteeing a certainty. a certainty, yes. is that the reason? i ask myself i remember being in turkey, okay? i looked you drive through a town of 50,000 in the middle of turkey, in the center of turkey,
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analysts to refer to stauddy america as the u.s. becomes the top producer of oil in the near future. it has the largest known proven coal reserves in the entire world and is tied with russia for the largest gas production. joining me at the table is westin solutions, inc a company doi doing. steve coll and president of the new american foundation and a staff writer at the new yorker magazine. francis bernanke and dan dicker is it still at the table. i m really curious about how this boom is going to transform american politics. i m particularly concerned about climate, right? it seems to me that we are basically in certain ways headed in exactly the wrong direction, but also at the same time headed in the right direction. here s what i mean by that. k carbon emissions are the lowest