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that the honey for sa had lost in west cobble. this is the latest in a space of attacks during the fast because you have relatives of the victims writing. they've lost family members speaking to the spokesperson for the taliban police chief. he actually constantly told me that the figures could change that they were trying to reach out to various hospitals to find out exactly what has happened and harder to come with rack or chattering temperatures. and as with random reports from new delhi, which has its 2nd hottest april in 72 years labor with a new daily work through temperatures above 40 degrees celsius to construct and the new parliament buildings like many st. when with an auto ritual drivers, it was because of a shortage of coal at power plants. the indian government has cancelled hundreds of passenger trains to rush coal to thermal power plants around the country. the

intense heat has also affected wheat crop with some agriculture experts predicting this year's yield will be 25 percent less that could have international implications. india was planning to help sold a gap and global wheat supplies left by russia and ukraine. we also knew that 55 countries were dependent on the food coming from the reason and 55 is not a small number. so if you can be standing along with another $55.00, but you not the temperature of the when you get the heat web event, they're becoming more frequent than more intense. and when they happen, they last longer. so we're definitely elizabeth moran and al jazeera new daddy ukrainian president rogers landscape, condemned russia. miss el strike concave during a visit by the united nations chief. he called as an insult to the secretary general, while entering the terrace described ukraine as an epis center of unbearable pain. this was his 1st visit to the country since the war began in february, joe biden presidency go from climate emergency to burn baby burn. let's get to the

bottom line. ah. climate action was a major pillar present, jo biden's election campaign back in 2020. he promised big changes to confront the threat to our plan. eastern former president trump did so his bite and lived up to the promises he made back when the world was normal, or at least kind a sort of normal 2 years ago. and if a climate emergency can be shoved because he group pushing for progressive national climate policies. and john palmer here, the spokesman for the sunrise movement, a political action organization that advocates for the green new deal and know their law. i mean, they're, they are really, really energized jamal. you're one of our every, both of you are younger generation. i guess i would ask you, in response to the president. you know, obviously we're asking this question about what the state of president biden's climate policies are amidst a lot of crises. and as a young person that he was speaking to. or you will need to take the administration's progress on his historic climate commitments through executive

action and make the good pieces of the bipartisan infrastructure law. and while it's true that the presence supercharge, our transition to it held the accurate, all insecure clean energy economy, he did say that his pen was ready and congress should act. and the next 5 weeks between now and memorial day, we have one last shot to deliver those investments. and that's going to be the real key test here. well, john paul, you are in the generation that president biden was speaking about and to, and i was going to give, you know, jamal and opportunity be in that generation too. but i guess a quick question i have as a young person, and i know a bit about your back a lot more effort into than we are right now. you know, president biden well knows. and what he said on his statement that day that young people are indeed energized and he knew that as a candidate himself, he brought us on board a unity task for us to completely revamp his climate policy, which was not up to par. i'm in agreement. we saw, you know,

plans stopping drilling in the arctic refuge. but as jamal said, once we began getting into the territory of a legislative fight in congress that would have actually secured historic investments that we need when it comes to climate. it was fumbled a bit and now as we stand in the midst of people across this country, because this crisis is an incredibly great threat, is climate a hard national security issue? an existential threat along the miami, a place that is increasingly ravaged by hurricane rising sea levels and so on. i'm sure jamal can attest to the prevalence of fires in the pacific northwest in historic heat waves over the last summer. this is having real effects on people and impacts on our livelihoods. now, does that mean that we should let these oil, the framework that we have given to joe biden is a form of climate policy that centers weren't people at or from, alongside climate investment, right. that's going to get people on to the streets that's with hard issue. when

you just spoke about, i felt the tension in you. but i have to say just because i'm a realist, you know, i don't know if the, you know, to, to, to whatever, to we have been feeling violent. we change this from being a casual if we can issue to do you know, as philanthropy, as far as coming to work every day and say, wow, we have to work on this immediately and urgently and be choking our lungs this summer in the pacific northwest. its the odds rising sea levels in miami, where john is it's, but beyond that, there are intertwining crises right now that are directly at fault of our dependence on fossil fuels. it's the crisis in ukraine. a latent conflict. we're seeing rise fossil fuel prices. that's the main driver of inflation opened, the majority driver of inflation is gas prices and fossil fuel prices. and there's a solution to both those problems. a conversion, a 100 percent clean. electra energy and 100 percent clean electricity look present by and made some major important commitments during his campaign. ah ha,

to resend clean electricity by 2035. cutting overall climate pollution by 50 percent by 2030. directing 40 percent of the benefits of climate spending to disadvantage committees, passing major climate investments in congress is here is essentially meeting all 3 these commitments and we can't give up on there. there is still a key moment here that we can get this done with lesson to president biden for a moment and what he was laying down in a, in a state of the union address, which, by the way i want to take, i'm, is there to like sound bites about climate in the present, say the unit as they're both quite good. we're going to play one right now. but what comparing that to many of the other crises who was talking about climate kind of got short shrift in the presence dangerous. but let's listen to the present, let provide investment tax credits to whether i your home and your business. to be energy efficient and get a tax credit for it. double americans, clean energy production in solar wind, and so much more lower the price of electric vehicle saving another $80.00

a month that you're not going to have to pay at the pump. jamal in response to, to president biden's comments in the state of the unit. just trying to wrap this up . the thing that came to my mind is what are the odd bedfellow moments to try to get to the vision he laid out. you know, when you kind of look at the reality, those that have the big assets in oil and energy are to the fossil companies. they argue that they're the ones making the biggest bats and the biggest, invent investments in renewables. where are you in, in an action plan that's real and tangible and has traction in working with other incumbent energy players to get the vision that the president laid out? or do you think it's folly to work with these well companies the oil companies are not our friends and won't be a part of the solution to the climate crisis. i their profits ah motors suggest otherwise i, i offered an energy industry which we need to do in order to achieve further goals

in, in our efforts to defeat the climate crisis law. i thought that the, the stay the union was important because president by and introduce the idea that clean energy investments and reconciliation would save american families an average of $500.00 per year on their annual to lot of the old counties. but do you see any progress on their side in moving, you know, in some of the direction want to go, is that come through regulation, oversight, or do or do you think it's dolan's paying? um, incredible. high gas prices are in the midst of incredibly precarious in, on procuring the solutions that will overall guarantee the safety of the american people. and pretty much the rest of the world when it comes to actually entertaining climate solutions at their speed, scope and scale. i can't see how their profit motives, like jamal said, would be acting in a well manner in that when we're dealing with

a solution and we're trying to come up with a solution to an existential threat, like the climate crisis. that's pretty much where i lie on that, and that's why the president should be taking decisive action right now to give leverage and push forward solutions that the people of this country and that people around the world have been advocating. fellow alliances in both of you. i worry that the urgency of the moment ah, isn't being felt in what i'm hearing from scientists, or the very short time span. i mean, so i'd love to hear from you about jamal. how do we, how do we deal with the realities of that math? which, particularly the political math, i feel the urgency of the moment, i believe it may as a make or break months in the u. s. senate, on whether we strike a deal or not to avert the worst impacts of climate crises. we are facing a timelines of both ecological scale and in the political legislative calendar where we know that many bills die in the heat of summer in the u. s. senate. we are

not. we don't have a lot of time. a year ago, last week. the president committed the united states to cutting greenhouse gas pollution by over 50 percent by 2030. that is a very bold coal. that was america's pledge to the international committee under the pairs agreement after 4 years of backsliding under president donald trump. project are promised to allies broad and further for road of america's international credibility on climate change. so i believe that there is not 10 republican votes for a bold policy. they will actually stand this crisis and get us on the pathway to meeting our international commitments or president a report to shared with us. you know, the, the fact of the matter is that this is a, an urgent issue. and it is an issue that you know, had to be tackled yesterday and frankly, is blaring in our faith. this is today, and it's not like we haven't moved on quick times, bills in this country before. what we saw in the midst of world war 2 was an

economic mobilization that was able to fight the threat of fascism in a world war. and at the same time mobilized the entire american economy. it's manufacturing sector, it service sector and so want to be able to meet the moment and meet the crisis at its speed score going on to. and so when we talk about math, we're talking like jim all said, not only about legislative, an electoral cycles which are important because those are opportunities to secure what we need. but we're also talking about the repercussions that my generation will face beyond these 2 and 4 year cycles for the rest of our lives. and so, you know, when we, when we talk about the urgent things that can be done, the sort of energy policies that can be pursued, the answers are there. and they've been there for a while. we merely can't give up, is power to the same folks who have been around for decades and decades, writing policies while at the same to saul and you know, kind of turn things around because all of the prognosticators, you know, see

a lot of doom coming for the biden administration, you know, you know, i'm objective and in the next election along the lines you're talking about i'll tell you what we get and what we don't get. what we get is that throughout every major historical milestone in this country, young people and workers have been at the forefront leading social movements that have turned the tide to make massive change. and that's the value that financially environmentally, and so on. what we don't get is how we can get to and for 2 year and 4 year promises that are never met. i think right now what we really have to hold on to is the fact that young people, in fact, did break record numbers when they came out to bow in 2020. and they did that as they felt that there was a president and a party who was speaking to them. and now, 2 years later, after delivering a democratic trifecta, you know, young people aren't really feeling the results and the risk that not only the

president but the rest of his party. and frankly, this country runs is taking young people for granted. and just expecting them than this other as we, as we close here. but secretary carry, you know, our climate on envoy is around basically anticipating and char mail, shake egypt, the cop 27. they're trying to get nations to stand by commitments. they've already made because there's a sense of erosion and a lack of commitment. even worrying whether we do meet the commitments of the united states is made previously at the glasgow summit. and, and what are the things you're putting on the table to advise these, these, these policies, ours and let me tell you, cause conferences are littered with pass failed american commitments to the international community. so. ready i believe that we must achieve on 2016, but did not, but did vote in 2020 was climate since january of 2021 by and support a strong 19 points among voters aged 18 to 34. that's exactly when the climate

provisions and bill back better crumbled. and so i do think that we need to show that the, the youth. and frankly, the american people that we can take on the big challenges are nation and our planet faces. and so far were that we haven't done so. i think that is it is key for us to achieve a 100 percent clean electricity by 2035. it was the central plank of biden's climate platform. is that she, it is key to achieving the steep carbon pollution cuts we need to meet our international climate goals. the good news is the reconciliation. bell helps us get there by including clean energy tax credits, which would drive down the cost of wind in solar that would allow more renewables to get on the great as quickly as possible. we need to write it got used the power in the cleaner. we need to pass the clean energy tax credits, and we need to show the international community that we're serious about. this will . thank you. we'll have to leave it there. fascinating discussion, climate activists, jamal rod, from evergreen action and john palmer here from the sunrise movement. thanks so

much for sharing your candidate thoughts with us today. thank you so much. thank you. so what's the bottom line? climate action has turned into the province of rich nations that have the resources and can afford to be worried about future generations. and the planets health they're going to inherit. most of the world is not thinking unfortunately about melting glaciers, entrap carbon. but like u. s. climate envoy, john kerry says all of it's happening, whether the folks believe it or not, whether it is crisis in ukraine or not, where the price of fuel is up or down. the question is how to find strong middle ground options and alliances between climate activists and maybe the fossil fuel industry between major carbon burning economies, and those who become obsessed with renewables. when both sides of the table start working with players, they don't like that will know that everyone recognizes the threat to be really existential. not one that we can shrug off until more so called urgent priorities are dealt with. and that's the bottom line, ah. wet

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