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The Hartmann Report

AS THE CARBON EMISSIONS HIT THE FAN

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

News, Congress, America, Thom Hartmann, Climate Change, Democracy, Debate, Economics, The Hartmann Report

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As climate change becomes undeniable, will fossil fuel companies begin to be criminally liable for their actions? A case in Bolivia may be setting a new precedent- and intrepid reporter Greg Palast has the details. Why is a lawyer with the case now facing jail time? And Mari Margil of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights joins Thom- will a Chippewa band be able to enforce the legal status they've given to wild rice, or will a pipeline bulldoze its way through?



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0:00.0

this is the Tom Hartman program yesterday the yesterday morning Louise and I were walking

0:18.7

into work and I'm like uh... what's that big orange thing in the sky is that a u.f.o

0:24.7

and now is the sun it was uh... rising in the east and of course there's all these

0:29.3

forest fires here in Oregon to the east and the south of us

0:33.3

it's it's getting grim and now there's uh... in the news

0:37.6

we've talked many times on this program uh... in fact i i wrote about this in one of

0:41.8

my eighty hd books back fifteen years ago

0:44.8

and i wrote about it in the last hours of humanity my really scary climate change

0:49.1

uh... little kind of booklet it's only about a hundred pages

0:51.9

about the collapse of the Gulf Stream the collapse of the North Atlantic

0:56.4

meridio and all over turn current whatever it's called

1:00.1

uh... you know the great conveyor belt is how is how it's referred to in popular

1:03.6

literature and how i remember it

1:05.6

and if this thing goes down

1:08.7

in a matter of two or three or four years you will start to see europe

1:13.3

large chunks of europe become uninhabitable

1:16.1

and the east coast of the united states getting swamped and you know with water

1:21.2

with rising sea levels and massive storms i mean it's just it will completely

1:25.6

alter the weather patterns of planet earth

1:28.6

they are very concerned that it is starting to wobble right now in a big way

1:32.8

now it has been wobbling for you know it's been getting progressively weaker

1:36.1

weaker for about a thousand years this is not exclusively climate change

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