They should, because i will. Then we can build that fdr they should, because i will. Then we can build that fdr National Copyright cable Satellite Corp 2019] besides thank you you all for coming out on a summer evening, you a little bit about the series, which we plan o keep running right through until our primary, believe it or not, there are many months still a little bit of time ahead and i want to thank the organizations who have this forum put together. In fact, most of them are represented here tonight. Roger nunnen from the new England Farmers Union is in the back here. We belong to rogers farm, csa. Michelle from New Hampshire business thank you, lucas are you here . Yep. From New Hampshire young democrats. Podcast the wesome other night. He went to a trump ramally and about it. T so thank you all. N addition to helping put the forum together, these fellow nonprofits and activists have questions the together that were going to be putting to the various candidates. Ow, tonight, of course, well be speaking with two candidates, and ill explain the program in just a moment. So what are we doing here . You know, youve shown up, but i just its important to remind ourselves, Climate Change most far, we think, the important challenge that we face now and for future generations. Many, many threats posed by Climate Change perhaps the greatest is the potential it production. T food we see this every day. Our farmers, whether its new rganisms, ticks, animals stressed under the high heat. Drought conditions, colder cold. More intense storms, were often seeing the most intense most ts and then the intense storms in the very same year. This is, of course, happening around the world but here in the our east were feeling share of it. The increasing number of high days is absolutely taking a toll. Many farmers are only grazing at night. They cant put the animals out during the day. National theast, Climate Assessment says excessive precipitation is also of crop loss in the northeast. Recent projected increases in amount, intensity an persistence and frequency much more damage or impacts on agricultural operations. Oil compaction, delays in planting, reductions in the number of days when the fields workable. Ly anybody here involved with june was a know sgrun washout, and im sure roger are tell us his fields behind. Around the country and around the world very similar stories told. Congressman ryan, who youre about to hear from, has spoken debate the national stage. Were especially delighted hes here to talk with us. Already havingis significant impacts on food access but also on price and it only have more so. So, of course, unfortunately, are happening at a time when farmers are being squeezed by the worst weve seen economy in decades. Mid size farms are disappearing from the landscapes, small farms in the northeast, if youre not rganic youre basically an endangered species. Organic, we can help the farmers tough, but again its tough going out there. Stoneyfield, were big believers in business to change the world for good. Done lots to measure our carbon mitigation, our carbon footprint. There are an immense number of things going on and just being we know we e sequester carbon in our soils farmers soils. We also see the limits of what businesses can do, with actions. The world scientists are now in agreement that in order to keep increases erature below 1. 5 degrees, thats the ncrease, of whats already happened, we must transition entirely away from fossil fuels. Ramp up opportunities for Carbon Sequestration on farm nforcement in a very short period of time. I think well talk about this tonight, and thats why its so that we get federal egislation that will ensure were a hundred percent powered by a clean economy no later than 2050. Youve heard congressman ryan already speak to this on the heroic stage, taking positions so were delighted to be starting with him. Its so critical that the next president grasp this, right . Of ke the current occupant the white house, who is, you know, one of the three deniers i think, at this point. His head doe would be one of the others. We absolutely must elect somebody who grasps this. Time is short. All feel that we all understand it. Thats why these fantastic sponsors have come together for this seer. Format for the evening will be exactly as follows. We have two candidates speaking to us. Spend 30 minutes with each candidate beginning with tim yan, and then congressman delaney will join us afterwards. Each candidate will have about ight minutes to deliver some Opening Statements on this topic, and then well follow up prepared nutes of questions that the sponsors and i have put together and then well follow up with 10 minutes your questions. Were being filmed live on cspan. You. Need to bring a mic to put up your hand. Speechafying. Ill pull the mic, i promise. There is a much larger audience than just the folks here in this room. So therefore, now let me congressman tim ryan. Mra [applause] a member of the powerful House Appropriations committee which controls the expenditure money by the federal government. Tim and i have met together numerous times in dc. Real hero for us and were really honored and delighted to have you joining us first. K so thank you. Gary and meg, thank you so much for the opportunity to be here. Exciting. Ally im a guy from northeast ohio. I dont have a whole lot of but ulture in my district ive been interested over the ears because ohio is an agricultural state. About five or six years ago i the real ok called we can olution, on how build out this new system that i hink we need to have in the United States and ive learned so much more from when i started writing that book. Context to a little open you, i would just like to say i have a beautiful wife, who is a First Grade School teacher. We have three kids, mason is 16, 15, brady, you our little guy is 5. And my wife and i share a passion for this issue. As a teacher would her lly let kids eat in classroom if they were eating whole foods. Whoso she would get parents would come to her during parent teachers conferences and say, homeoes my kid keep coming asking me for bags of carrots . [laughter] the kids loved them. To a part of how we need move forward. Yes, its climate but as been trying to say throughout this we have tol election stop looking at all of these issues in silos. All interconnected, like nature is interconnected, web, and so we have to address this issue from a 30,000 foot standpoint that this connecting of all the dots that there, and education, and agriculture, our tax policy with innovation, so here were certainly talking but climate is of those cted to all issues as well. Sorry to see that our rnor greitens ensley isnt here. [applause] he had one of the most amazing plans around college. He was my roommate when we were in congress together. Has a much cleaner did room in hat he our apartment. But heres kind of what im thinking. I think the agriculture piece is good from a policy perspective regenerative agriculture, no till, cover all the things that were talking about here. The nk it is essential for environment, its essential for us to meet the goals we have. Carbon neutral but reversing Climate Change. To have a robust agriculture piece and talking ive we were earlier, its not because im picking this over that. Working. Use its its already happening. Were already seeing, when i go New Hampshire, wherever i trav i try to stop at regenerative doing agriculture, bringing local press, doing social media, doing of this, so well can continue to let people know to move is the way forward. That farmers, and heres the that farmers, some who dont even think that caused by issue is man, still want to do regenerative agriculture because want to sequester carbon and increase organic material nto the soil, so that they dont have to use as many pesticides, and they can make money. So i dont care what they believe if what they want to do sequester carbon and reduce Pesticide Use and reduce fertilizer, because were destroying the environment has to do of this with whats happening on the farms. Iowa, we places like saw what was happening with the of ding and for every 1 organic material increase in an another and, it holds 7,000 gallons of water, and were having flooding, and were using so much fertilizer thats the farms, going into the rivers, going down to mouth of one at the the mississippi, killing, dr. The was telling me this ther day, it kills 220,000 metric tons of fish a year, and destroying the fishing industry in so many places they arer country, and projecting that there are 20 or 25 other dead zones that are the same around the world. Healthy trying to get lean meat to our kids and to families and were killing metric tons just at the mouth of the mississippi river. This is a winwinwin. Ill just talk politics for a i think its important for us to talk about how are we going to get this done . Sequester carbon. The farmers o have like brown and Allen Williams and others, who are making money agriculture. Rative they are the only ones actual making money now. Farmers havent a profit in five years. And brown, up in north dakota, regenrethe leader in the active movement. Hes not even taking crop subsidies. Imagine us moving to a political solution with democrats, republicans, and libertarians and independent take on the ould industrial farming monopolies. We can build out a system publicprivate partnerships, to teaching farmers how to grow, maybe assistance as out of the ion industrial agriculture business ag the regenerative business. Were going to reduce algae blooms. Were going to rehabilitate the nitrogen get all the out of the rivers. Were going to be able to fishing industry around the different areas of the United States. Were going to grow more food. Nable i think we should also create these farms by ncouraging prisons, schools, universetis, to buy fresh, local foods. O youre not just helping them build the system out. But youre also creating markets. Farmers like markets. They want someone to sell. Stuff. Y to buy their so how do we move to start enseen incent vies and create markets. Progressive as a democrat, weve got to have the new ideas. Its not left or right, its new better. Like the leftright divide, forget that. Thats 40 years of like arguments. Im done. Im 46 years old. I was born in 1973. Watergate. Im done. Im done with the culture wars. Im done with the fighting. Move forward with new ideas that build new coalitions. Healthy, you know. 75 of our just say, healthcare costs in the United States are from chronic diseases preventable. B y diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers. To make sure were providing food as medicine which is reversing these chronic were going to reverse chronic diseases with food and medicine we need farms food. Are producing how about that for a change. Night, everybody. Mra [applause] there e is a cup right youre welcome to share my water. I would share with you any day. A this conversation would be little different. The night is young. Uplook, i want to pick right where you just left. Obviously a candidate who understands these issues. Specifics. E talk some what are your president ryan are your plans to support farmers through incentives, research and new investments. Would you actually implement these ideas . There are a variety of ways. I actually want to do a town hall on this, which youre invited to. Have you but i want to do it with gabe brown and Alan Williams in some of these key areas. Let me say a couple of things. One, i think there will be a transition so the government probably play a role in us moving from industrial ag to regenerative. There may have to be credits, something to incentivize farmers for putting carbon in the soil. Not convinced that it has to last a very long time because some of these egeneraltive farmers, within a year they are making money. They clean their rivers, bike renovating know, theaters, Building Community back up into the downtowns, water, sewer, and all the rest. Make sure they are healthy that. Money could be spent there. Its important that we reinvest back into the ag extensions, and use the usda and he Conservation Service to put teams, and im totally stealing this from Alan Williams, but or five teams together of four or five people in every state, to actually farmers how to do this. Because thats the big problem. They dont know what to do. Stuck, and they would rather go fill out the paperwork and get the money that president to give them, because they have got nowhere else to go. Democrat going into Rural America saying, weve got a plan for you. Said and youre going to make more money off of me than you ever made off of trump. Hearhear. So youre in congress. Functional the most days. These you are president , and mitch mcconnell, we dont get the senate. Deal with a Reluctant Senate when i comes to facing any of these issues . I think you build that coalition. One of the things im trying to do now even in the democratic primary because i think a lot of primary voters are saying how are you going to get it done, which is legitimate in 2019 in america. I think you put that coalition together. You know, im going to do and hing with gabe brown Alan Williams, and very ublicly, and start educating republican farmers, libertarian farmers to say, look, are you reducing cropd in subsidies . Thats government spending. Where is the club for growth on subsidies, right . I mean, my job as president is coalition, and i believe that genretive, if properly, is capable of actually getting a coalition ogether of republicans and libertarians and liberal democrats to actually move on this stuff. And why do you think it happened . Because youre making economic ought to appeal on both sides. Where is the problem . You and k its just, far , you guys were so ahead of the curve its not even funny, but its i think a resident like me could throw, you know, i say gasoline and all manure, you y, no, throw manure on it. Emerging, its just and i think there are so many young people, i think the limate issue is getting people to say, okay, where is that it we can actually move . So i just think you need, like company, any church, any school, you need a leader. You need a leader who can put it i believe im the leader that can put it together. And two last questions then well look to you all here. A re is this commitment to hundred percent, i think i know the answer to this question but i want to give you a chance to to it, to commit to awn 2050. Nt clean energy by is that your commitment, and if so, where are you planning to away . Right absolutely. I think ag is the first place we go. Ag and invasion. Those are the two areas where we be, to go and the key will i hope we dont have to wait until 2050, the way things are moving. Sanders and i got into this during the debate. Cars in ke banning gas 2040. In my mind, in all honesty, kay, great, whatever but if were waiting to 2040 to get rid of gas vehicles, were doing wrong. Ng specialably and what i like what you said in the introduction, when you were making your little we have to , is align the financial incentives ith the environmental incentives, and if we do that then you get Venture Capital coming in. Making money, and when we pass the energy bill in of and we lost a lot members of the house of representatives because of that, was selling that in youngstown, ohio, as a jobs jay did this, too, ensley. R this is a jobs program. This is how we have to talk about this. Next 10 n made in the years. We want those made in the United States. Batteries, we want batteries made in the United States. Solar. We want solar panels made in the United States. 8,000 parts to a wind turbine. How do we present this in a way in youngstown, ohio, goes, i want in on that, wantse Venture Capitalist in on that. Unionize this jobs like the auto jobs were losing. Saying, l behind this okay, farmers, Rural America, like, okay, we can actually do where Everybody Wins here, and maybe industrial ages will take a hit. Into ill find their way making money. I guarantee you that. So yes. 2050, i would hope were talking about it a lot sooner than that. Answered three of my questions in one so good work. Lets get to you all. Again, ill going to bring you a mic and if you could say your name and stand and ask your to this congressman. Thank you. Name is rebekah. Im part of a local group thats to fight a pipeline, a gas pipeline that they are manchester ild from to exeter called the granite bridge. Would you if elected, consider banning fracking on federal lands . Absolutely. Absolutely. On federal lands. Piece is aatural Gas Transition for us. Eve got to be the problem is, like weve said, its a transition and there are a lot from thatwhere i come are making pretty good money working there. Jobs in of the best the country quite frankly but weve got to move so much faster. Weve got g to gary, to move on this stuff. Heres the thing that i just, i my st feel like its position in life to remind people of this because they know, those coal miners were making a hundred thousand dollars a year and work in the natural gas industry, they make a hundred thousand dollars a year. Its not easy work but they work overtime. They live in poorer communities. They have a nice house. A pool in thehave back. They have a truck. They take their kids hunting. Go on vacationly every year. They can go see a ball game, you know, go see a Football Game a year. They can go to a baseball game once a year. They are the wealthiest people their town, and we cant come to them and say, do you want to panels and make 35,000 a year because they are we going to be for that, and have to come to them, which is why i keep saying, jobs, union a year ndred thousand with overtime, 80 thousand a ear, healthcare, benefits, retirement, thats go