With fires from the Amazon to the Arctic, will Climate Change threaten civilization or even our species' survival? And all while Republican policies are still in denial. With David Korten, Mustafa Santiago Ali, and Susan Jane Brown.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Why is the Amazon burning? Thom considers the factors that have lead to the crisis and how our food consumption patterns make a difference. ~ Thom speaks with David Korten of the Living Economies Forum on how an extinction event could actually SAVE the human race. The growth of GDP has been aimed at increasing the bank accounts of billionaires and not focusing on long term survival on the planet. ~ Fascism is using environmentalism as a new tactic to get young people to join what is being called Eco-fascism. Mustafa Santiago Ali of the The National Wildlife Federation joins the Thom Hartmann program to explain the nearly contradictory politics of Eco-fascism. ~ Donald Trump is trying to gut national forest protections, clearing the way for logging, mining and other environmentally destructive acts. Fighting the Trump administration on the destruction of our forests for profit and their plots to remove protections for our wild areas, Susan Jane Brown of The Western Environmental Law Center joins Thom to discuss the need to shift environmental decision making back in public view. ~ Thom's Geeky Science Fact on antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment.
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| 0:49.6 | the amazon is burning the headline this is literally a c n n headline the amazon is burning the headline this is literally a CNN headline the Amazon is |
| 0:54.6 | burning because the world eats too much meat too much meat too much meat |
| 0:58.3 | yeah it turns out that this is why the vast majority of the deforestation that's been happening in |
| 1:05.2 | the Amazon for the last 50 years has been going on and now Bolsonaro is |
| 1:10.2 | speeding this process up. Keep in mind the Amazon rainforest produces 20% of the |
| 1:15.2 | planets oxygen. Without oxygen we don't do real well as human beings. I mean we can take a small reduction in oxygen levels |
| 1:25.6 | but not a whole bunch. Well here's what CNN says so for those wondering how |
| 1:30.4 | they could help save the rainforest known as the planet's lungs |
| 1:33.4 | for producing about 20% of the world's oxygen the answer may be simple |
| 1:37.2 | eat less meat |
| 1:38.9 | now the finance minister of Finland |
| 1:41.4 | actually called for this. |
| 1:44.0 | Finland, he's asking the European Union to quote, |
| 1:46.0 | urgently review the possibility of banning Brazilian beef imports. |
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