you want everyone else to go first, of course, right, from a rational self interest perspective. aren t china and india just doing the same thing, just saying, yes, go ahead, please, america. no. china is going forward. china has completely left the u.s. in the dust. china is the major exporter of s.o.n.a.r. panels and solar energy and installing five times more solar energy over the next few years. i would disagree with that. because it s china let me just finish. more coal fired plants than anybody else. true. but look at the progress that has been made. part of the problem here is the polarization of the debate is keeping any common sense solution from moving forward. it was just the united states and china that signed off on a big contributor to greenhouse gases and that s a kind of movement that has to take place, because what s happening here is polarization essentially is keeping a solution from being found. absolutely. i completely agree. it really has to be a
coal plants. so what ends up happening, they have gone from denying the problem to saying the problem is so big we can t fix it. what i hear is why should we bother. the u.s. dragging its feet is compromising not only the entire planet, but is compromising u.s. economic . interests. future. but also, what it s doing is, when i sit down with the head of the chinese climate negotiation team and talk, they are ready with india. they are ready to say, we will move our fossil fuels. they say how can we move wait a second. aren t they just isn t everyone just doing the same thing? this is a big game theory conundrum, right? you want everyone else to go first, of course, right, from a rational self interest perspective. aren t china and india just doing the same thing, just saying, yes, go ahead, please, america. no. china is going forward. china has completely left the u.s. in the dust. china is the major exporter of s.o.n.a.r. panels and solar
have gone from denying the problem to saying the problem is so big we can t fix it. what i hear is why should we bother. the u.s. dragging its feet is compromising not only the entire planet, but is compromising u.s. economic . interests. future. but also, what it s doing is, when i sit down with the head of the chinese climate negotiation team and talk, they are ready with india. they are ready to say, we will move our fossil fuels. they say how can we move wait a second. aren t they just isn t everyone just doing the same thing? this is a big game theory conundrum, right? you want everyone else to go first, of course, right, from a rational self interest perspective. aren t china and india just doing the same thing, just saying, yes, go ahead, please, america. no. china is going forward. china has completely left the u.s. in the dust. china is the major exporter of s.o.n.a.r. panels and solar energy and installing five times
for republicans to some degree. it s been successful from the point of view of republican members of congress, who themselves have gotten re-elected. they will probably hold a majority in the house for several more cycles. if your goal is that s gerrymandering. it s not just gerrymandering. it s the nature of the political geography of the u.s. in any case, i think for a lot of these members from their own personal self-interest perspective, the strategy of obstruction is working and will continue to work. i think there are a couple silver linings. one of which is while mcconnell and boehner came out swinging, dave camp who chairs the committee in the house that writes tax laws, put out a statement with his democratic counterpart in the senate that was many r receptive. there may be constructive discussion coming up. maybe, maybe. maybe. i try to maintain a little bit of hope. i think while there are sound political reasons for republican obstruction, it would be impossible f
chicago, and my own neighborhood in atlanta, that says, there s a different way. greta: why don t they? frankly, i didn t see the democrats going into this neighborhoods either. the democrats don t have to. the community is taken for granted. greta: that s troubling. if you have money and you want continue vest your money in mutual funds or stocks do you put all your money in one mutual fund or stock? you diversify. so when you have a community that has nose diversified it political investment. they become irrelevant to one party and taken for granted by another. greta: everyone has to do if we don t help those who are really not fortunate to get on their own feet and be successful, or that class is going to grow larger and that entitlement class is going to grow, and it s imperative from a humanitarian privilege and even a self-interest perspective to have them thriving, and yet