I am telling you, if we ever clean up plastics in the ocean, it will be because of these two folks and senator lee, and i wi be willing coconspirators. I have been told about this a lot, and im astounded by the problem mankind has created for the oceans. We can be better stewards of gods creation. We are going to have a hearing today about some solutions, and we are going to find a way to create some kind of fund that people can contribute to. I know they are doing it for the world bank, but i like the global fund idea where you come together under American Leadership to solve the problem. To our two colleagues, to live for your leadership. Senator leahy . Thank you, mr. Chairman. With all the jokinthat goes back and forth, it isafe to say that the chairman d i feel very strongly about this. We do want to help. Were inwhitehouse and vietm last year, and we met with the vietnamese officials and scientists to discuss Ocean Plastic pollution and had a great meeting, and we talked about a
Lot and im just astounded by the problem mankind has created for the oceans. We can be better stewards of gods creation and what were going to dog is have a hearing today about some solutions, and senator leahy and myself will sit down and find a way to create somee kind of fund that people can contribute to. I know theyre doing it at the world bank, that i like the fund idea where the world kd of comes together under amecan leadership to solve the problem. So too are two colleagues, thank you very much for your leadership and senator leahy. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. With all joking they goes back and forth, i think it safe to say that the chairman and i feel very strongly about this. We do wt to help. Senator whitehouse and i were in vietnam last year. We met with the vietnamese officials and scientists to discuss Ocean Plastic poltion, had a great meeting. S. White house was a star at that, but heres a country with a 2000mile coastline, and when i say we, that means all huma
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Today to decide on who should be first to get the vaccine once one is available. With the pandemic raging across the United States, we will speak to two africanamerican doctors who have spent years fighting Racial Disparities in healthcare. One of them joined modernas vaccine study to honor her father who died from covid19. Plus, we will mark World Aids Day with professor Steven Thrasher. Aids continues to kill too many peopl almost 700,000 pele were killed by it last year, and that was decades after education became available. As we are on the verge of potentially having a Coronavirus Vaccine to rollout, we dont antiracist,vely anticapitalist approach, hundreds of thousands of millions of people could continue to suffer and die. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and convention is convening a panel of advisers today to determine who will be the first in line to be
U. N. Secretary. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Were delighted to have you both. So, let me start with you, if i may, doctor. Could you give us a global snapshot of Energy Poverty, where things stand, what populations are affected and what kind of repercussions are for gender equity and employment in the areas of the world that are most affected. Thanks again for having us. I think to just talk about what the Rockefeller Foundation has done and under the leadership of secretary munoz is looking at how we can end this Global Partnership and Energy Poverty. And as you ask, and rightly so, what is the global landscape. Let me start with my own continent. Africa accounts for only 2. 3 of the 270,000 hours of electricity generated. Asia is only 7. 8 . Its africa but also south and central america, its 4. 9 . When you look at those three, africa, 3. 2 , india, 5. 8 , and south and Central Africa america are just 4. 9 , you see theres still large swaths of the global space that is energy