What the US government knew about climate change / James Gustave Speth
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🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's only for degrees. |
| 0:02.0 | It's only for degrees. |
| 0:05.0 | It's only for degrees. |
| 0:07.0 | It's only for degrees. |
| 0:08.0 | It's only for degrees. be. Make it back. |
| 0:25.0 | back! This This is not the media. |
| 0:52.8 | This is hell. |
| 0:56.0 | And if this was the media, it's likely you would not be hearing |
| 0:58.8 | the conversation we will be having this morning. |
| 1:01.6 | That is, unless you are a regular reader of journals like |
| 1:05.0 | nature or science, but when it comes to the more mainstream corporate and commercial |
| 1:09.4 | news outlets who depend upon fossil fuel corporations, don't hold your breath waiting to hear what we'll be talking |
| 1:16.1 | about today because what we'll be discussing with somebody who knows is that they knew. That is the |
| 1:22.4 | U.S. government knew for certain that climate change was a real threat |
| 1:26.2 | dating back to the 1970s they knew what was causing climate change they knew how |
| 1:32.2 | globally devastating climate change could be. |
| 1:35.5 | They knew the biggest obstacle to confronting climate change. The government even knew what |
| 1:39.9 | to do to mitigate the worst aspects of climate change and they knew they would be the only ones |
| 1:45.2 | who would be able to do anything about climate change. |
| 1:48.6 | Still, over the next 40 years, only slight policy changes would be made and absolutely nothing would be done |
| 1:55.8 | to actually stop climate change. The government knew that burning fossil fuels was the root |
| 2:01.9 | cause of climate change, yet instead of attempting to curb |
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