CLIMATE CHANGE: HOW LONG CAN WE WAIT FOR REAL ACTION?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Will America wait until it's too late to tackle global climate change? Meanwhile, Congress dithers over a few trillion dollars that could begin to change our nation’s emissions course and help save us all from a flaming nightmare. Investigative journalist and contributor for The Nation magazine, David Lindorff joins Thom to explain why coastal landfills pose a hazard as climate change raises sea levels.
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| 0:00.0 | this is the Tom Hartman program well happy he wave it's it's gonna pick up |
| 0:19.0 | tomorrow at least in this part of the country we'll see you know how how it |
| 0:23.5 | travels and where it goes but we're looking at 103 degrees tomorrow here in |
| 0:27.8 | Oregon so wow anyhow a lot on the program today Dave Lindorf has an amazing |
| 0:35.0 | new piece out in the nation about a toxic coastal landfill something that |
| 0:41.0 | wasn't even on my radar screen and I want to share with you all but I want to |
| 0:45.2 | start out with climate the headline of my daily rant today at Hartman |
| 0:48.7 | report.com is climate change will America wait until it's too late and the |
| 0:54.0 | point I keep making you know the IPCC came out with this report and the |
| 0:58.8 | Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Gutierrez said this moment |
| 1:02.6 | represents a code read for humanities and there's no time for delay and no room |
| 1:08.1 | for excuses and so the Democrats are proposing a three and a half trillion |
| 1:13.3 | dollar bill in the United States you know Congress and right now it's in the |
| 1:18.6 | Senate that will go a long way toward mitigating climate change while at |
| 1:24.4 | the same time strengthening our social safety net as more and more of us are |
| 1:27.9 | coming under attack from climate change and it's wrecking neighborhoods and |
| 1:33.3 | stressing power systems and all kinds of things and what other Republicans have |
| 1:37.9 | to say nope we're not gonna have anything to do with that sorry forget it ain't |
| 1:41.8 | gonna happen and we've got a couple of Democrats that were waiting to see where |
| 1:47.9 | they're gonna fall on this thing cinema mansion maybe coons and Harper maybe |
| 1:52.8 | fine-stained I mean you know we're just waiting to see which which of these |
| 1:57.3 | Democrats are gonna stand up and say yes we're with the people we need to do |
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