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like jewelry travel up vote a luxury s. u. v. in a statement acting manhattan u. s. attorney audrey strauss accused former white house adviser steve bannon and three others of treating the we build the wall campaign as a personal piggy bank as alleged the defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of dune is capitalizing on the interest i in funding a bootable to raise millions of dollarsrs under the false pretense that alall of f that money will be st on construction. the indictment describes an elaborate sleight of hand carried out by bannon project founder brian cole fades and the other defendants involving a different charity and various shell accounts all to disguise where the money was actually going back in two thousand and nineteen bannon attended an event meant to drum up support for we build the wall. that's what boy movement is about is augment it try to show washington that they're

concerned citizens in those concerned citizens want to start to take action they actually want to see the wall buililt. the campmpaign organans use their ties to president donald trump to build legitimacy as they raised more than twenty five million dollars from thousands of donors. quickly distanced himself from his former aide while he was involved like why is it our campaign and- for a small part of the administration of very early on i haven't been dealing with him at all- i know nothing about the project o other than i didnt like when i read about it i didn't like it. i said this is for government this isn't a private people it was show boating and maybe looking for funds bannon and his three co defendants have been charged th cononspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. they're facing up to twenty years in prison. steve bannon key adviser to a donald trump once now under arrest. that't'sa

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over people coming in the police the fire department coming in from towns like napa salena palladio oak grove woodland. california i is in t e middle of f a sweltltering heaet wave in the earlilier in the wek with hits by over eleven thousand lightning strikes at one point there were three hundred and sixty seven fine over two dozen of which were considered major. as a result the state has declared an emergency. but we are experiencing fires the likes of which we haven't seen in many many years the totality when you consider three hundred sixty seven. active fires that we are aware of all across the state of california and demonstrably californians won't find a getting fiercer and more frequent. as the planet warms the summons a longer and drier than they were before. and scientists have found that the average amount of land phones

by won't find in the state has increased five fold since nineteen seventy two. hello wild that aim at california for one you stay with us you're watching from twenty four. hello and welcome to the france twenty four interview i'm r. a. dundas now my guest today warns of a planet with the economy has collapsed the aries on breathable and new diseases have been unleashed. a planet no longer fit for humans that's a grim scenario david wallace wells did peaks in he's brutal portrait of climate change in the book the uninhabitable earth eight story of the future also deputy editor of new york magazine it's a pleasure to welcome david wallace wells to the france twenty four studios. thanks for being here. now this book is often described as a

call to action david wallace wells journalist or activist i think of myself as a journalist and i think of the book as a work of journalism which is to say i think it's main job. is to describe the state of the science and then to get beyonond the science will bit into what we know or can start to think. about how human life beyond climate impacts will be changed by dramatic climate change so not just what earth- what he waves and natural disasters might be brought. but how will change our politics and our geo politics our culture our sense of our relationship to capitalism and technology. and i think the impacts from climate change are likely to be so profound that all those relationships will be changed to we'll be living in a very different world as soon as a few decades from now if we don't change course. as you just mentioned a little earlier in your lifetime. yeah it's- you know by twenty fifty if we don't change course will be at about two degrees of warming. that will mean- will have the storks damages from storms and sea level rise growing a hundred fold from where they are today- we have hundreds of millions of climate refugees

according to the u. n. cities in south asia the middle east would be so hot during summer that you would be able to walk around outside. without risking heat stroke or death and just north of two degrees probably about two point one degrees we probably lock in the permanent loss of all of the planets i sheets w which would mean. over centuries. eigighty meters of sa lelevel rise enough to drown two thirds of the world's major cities if we didn't move them. that impact will take place over centuries so we can adapt but some of these other impacts are going to have been much much sooner in fact. they're already here i think about houston in the united states this is a city that was just hit by its fifth five hundred year storm in five years. this is a storm we expect to see once every five centuries five centuriess ago. and cortez had just landed in mexico no europeans we're living in north america so we're talking about a storm that was supposed to hit once in all that time and houston's been hit by five of them in the last five years. so we're already living in unprecedented world. and in very short order it will become on recognized. thing they say

it's worse much worse than you think these and now famous first lines. of your book they deliberately alarmist you'd meet y yourself. is he the best way to get people to act. i thinink it's one very gooood wai think i'm eveveryone will be motivavated by diffeferent. fors and will be moved by different facts and features of the story- i think this is a saga. that is enormous all touching it affects every aspect of modern life. and we should expect that everyone will respond to it. in precisely the same way. but i think for a very long time scientists and activists and certainly journalists. were so reluctant. to scare the public. that they weren't actually being honest about what the sign said. and as a result the public i think was relatively. uninformed they had a misleadinglgly sanguine impression of what was to come- we were long told the climate change is a very slow story that took place over centuries. in fact half of all the emissions we've produced in the entire history of humanity. have come in just the last thirty years which means we're doing this damage. very much ourselves. we were told about the story almost exclusively in

terms of sea level rise. which meant we could feel if we livevd anywhere but the coastst we were safe. but the more you learn about the economic impacts which could produce- economic declines. twice the size as the great depression and permanent. to the effect on conflict which could double by the end of the century if we don't change course. to the effect on agricultltural yields which coud fall in half by the end of the century we don't change course. you realize that this is not. a story that is happening in one particular place that we can escape. no matter who you are no matter how wealthy you are. this story will be part of your story over the century. so it's an all encompassing saga. and we were told for a very long time. that two degrees was about the worst case that we could expect- what about o one point one degrees today which is. already hotter than the planet has ever been in the earth's e entire history- but we're likely to get at least two degrees. at least one more degree just north of two degrees. and that level of warming which scientists call catastrophic and the island nations the world calll genocide. is looking now more and more. like a best case scenario for a these reasons i think the public didn't really

understand the urgency of the crisis for a long time. in part because there wasn't sufficient alarmism. from my perspective as a journalist if the science is scary. the best thing to do is to share with the public. to not share it is patronising. and so while i agree thahat my book is alarming. i don't really think of myself as an alarmist because i think that all i'm doing. is being transparent about what the scientific community knows. and trying to- produce some effect on the reader where we respond to this crisis. in some way that approaches the scale of the science of self demands. as a fellow journalist who also covers climate change it also they have the impression that in recent years the language has been calm more alarmist. to the point that now nothing shocks anymore we talk about complete driver. of the lack of food of every total coastal nations. disappearing the language is terrifying scenarios a terrifying emissions are on the rise on the other hand what needs to happen for these so called tipping point to happen. well i think we're moving in the right direction i think part of that is because there is a new sense

ofof urgency in the rhetoric tht i think started with. the u. n.'s ipcc report from last october early recently strangers yeah last couple of years and it's become even more intense even over the last nine months. with credits and we're going to school strikes an extinction rebellion in the u. k. sunrise movement in the u. s. we've had these. really remarkable- climate protest movements unprecedented actually- millions of people on the street expressing much more concern than have ever been expressed before. and we're just starting to see policy changes in response to it with the british parliament declaring a climate emergency. denmark norway finland coming to net zero relatively quickly and in the u. s. a democratic primary in which a all of the candidates are competing with one another to be more ambitious on climate change. now considering that no pledge to reduce emissions in the history of climate change has ever been fulfilled. it's reasonable to be skeptical of some of f these sort of empty promises and yet the fact that the governments are making them. is i think a real sign of some progress. and i think it reflects in addition to the changing pololitical landscape.

the fact that there is a new economic conventional wisdom it used to be the case the communist believe that action on climate change was. too expensive to be worth it they said the impacts are going to be relatively small and we're better off just growing however we can grow. but that's really changed over the last few years and now almost every economist would tell you will be better off if we act faster rather than slower. i think that's another reason why we're just beginning to see policy change. but as you note emissions are setting records every year the u. n. says we only have ten years to have them to cut them in half and we're not just moving too slowly in the right direction we're still moving in the wrong direction. i think their reasons for thinking thatt that willl change soon but- it's clear that we're not moving nearly fast enough. even given the unprecedented mobilization we've seen over the last year. well that leads to my next question. you jusust mentioned greater china you've actually spent some. time with her wanted your- just in times of. is she the best news for the climate movement in yearss or is it reallyy it she more of a- media friendly distractions. distraction from the real topic well i don't think that she's a distraction at all i'm

enormously. grateful that she's done what she's done and i'm sort of an offer achievement. personally you know a year ago she was a- friendless fifteen year old. sitting outside swedish parliament by herself and now she is. leading a movement. of millions of school children all around the world. and i think that we need more than greta. but she would tell you the same. she's shehe's not trying to take control of policy or ask for particular concessions. she's not even i'm trying to. express the state of the crisis in her own words. when she was invited to the us to give testimony beforee congress. she declined and just handed over the ipcc report and said. you don't need me to tell you just listen to the scientists. so her message is not one of self aggrandizemenent or- you know she's not trying to. politicize the issue personally she's just once the leaders of the world. to devise policy. response to the crisis as it's described by the world scientists. and i think that message is almost an arguable which is one of the reasons why i think she's been such a powerful spokesperson. i think it's also been very helpful that she- thinks so clearly

about. the matter of intergenerational justice. and is able to articulate. in ways that no adult can deny. that her generation will be suffering. because of the indifference. of people of our age and older. and i think- that is had effect not just on the teenagers of the world. but possibly also the adults of thte world to may feel guilty for. how little they they've done on this issue to this point- now again i wouldn't want to put a credit in charge of global climate pololicy i would want to put. extinction rebellion in charge of global climate policy. but i'm enormously. grgrateful and even exhilarated that those protest movements are unfolding. because they are genuinely changing. the shape of. the political landscape and making much more ambition on climate. possible then i. would have even thought was possible a year ago. i wanted to just speak about. wallace thousands of you said that you are a journalist more than an activist but what can you do as an- individual- to contribute. to the direction we need to go is it about having less children is about not eating meat not flying- voting. what

can an individual do. the way that i see it is that this. crisis is too big to address. with anything but politics we need a thorough transformation of nearly every aspect of modern life becausese nearly every aspect of modern life produces a carbon footprint. and if we have a hope of stabilizing the world's temperature at any level. not even a comfortable level even a terrible. level if we want the warming to o stop ever. we need not just to reduce emissions we need to completely zero them out. and that means at least as a kind of an end game we need to get to a place where. all of our food is raised in ways that doesn't produce carbon. our air travel doesn't produce carbon our electricity generation doesn't produce carbon. our transportation doesn't produce carbon in our industry doesn't produce carbon. to do that. it it i didn't add anything like the speed that is required. means politics because- you and i can't build a new electric grid. we can't deploy- you know a whole nation of. so there is nothing to stop flying that would force the industry to change. i think that there is a there's a way that individual action can bring about some of

these large scale changes. but it's only important as a stepping stone. to those changes and i think there are other reasons why it's valuable to take action as an individual to. first of all it's good to live with on your own within your own values and believe the- living in accordance with the way the you see the world and want to see the world- it's also good to signal to those around you that you care about this issue because so many people. carry climbing anxiety around privately. and i think even discussing it with. their loved ones in ththe f family and friends. means it's the beginning of a political action- but personally i think. even more than that it's good to vote to support people who prioritize connection. to hold those who are in office accountable to the promises they made before. and ideally also to put extra political pressure in the form of protest. i on the powers that be. because the politics that we have now in almost every country in the world. even when. leaders are committed to the principle of climate. action those politics are moving far too slowly. david wallace wells a pleasure to have you here in the france twenty four students thanks of

india thanks for having me. do you stay true to the us because we've got more news coming up here on france twenty four. seattle in america's northwest often cited as the country's rainiest citities. that's not true these wait often wins. this week down to with the explorers went all this rain he's wreaking havoc in fort wayne. my name is laurie james i'm an envirironmental activist scuba diver and filmmaker out herere in seatattle washington.u

just sound needed a super hero and- underwater wonder woman. he did sound is the most amazing waterers it looks kind f cool to kind of leak today but as soon ass you go under themm let killer sir. it's realllly it's just love e life. the lifie here in puget sound i believe is very much in harm's way from the pollution that comes from. stormwater runoff. there is a storm drain storm water outflows that i called the monster because thehe stuff coming out of this place is so toxic it's so awful so disgusting and it is just relentless it's just billowing and blowing it even to this day

it j just makes me feel so helpless. and it bececame essentially my life's mission to help educate people so that we can protectct these animals.i realize that the only way i could protect and preserve puget sound and save puget sound was with a camera with a camera all right. hisistorically the strain was s sply soaked up by the ground and clans today in cities. like seattle the water washes over the roof the roads the pavements picking up with it along the way a cocktail of pollutants. petrol my particles heavy metals pesticideses and even animal excrement most of it going on treated into the puget sound

the waterways number. one source of pollution. my name is jennifer mcintyre and i'm an aquatic eco toxicologist. so here in the pacific northwest we have co host salmon the reason that we study impacts of stormwater on coho salmon is because of their sensitivity so i see them as a sentinel for impacts of stormwater more broadly. we collect water for differenent types of experiments so will collect real storm water coming off of roads for example. and we will expose the face of that storm water. so riright now one of these fishes gotten sick and it's showing a loss of equilibrium at thiss moment as it's lying on the bottom of the tank just breathing- on its back. i would

guess that this message will be dead. within a half hour. so w e still don't know exactly what causes this mortality i suspect that tires are the source of the chemicals that seem to be causing this problem the killer whales that live heree in puget sound. they feed almost exclusively on salmon he did sound is simply not producing enough for thehese fish a anymoe for them it is tragic because these are fish that survived. to the age of reproductivive maturity they went out to the ocean they found their way all the way back to the stream where they were born. anand then they're dying just because it rained. but it was mark gray- born and raised in seattle washington and i'm a commercial real estate- developer underneath the- freeway ninety

nine freeway- one of the oldest bridges in washington. just started raining a few moments ago and this is- brake dust and oil from the cars on the bridge above- i'm treated a looks like a cupp of coffee- but its stormwater to go straight into our lake. behind me. what we've done with the story with the new property i in the construction. is put in bio swells to treat the water andnd clclean the water water retentin cell put it simply. is a landscaped area. you're gonna findnd- natural plants trees bushes- bark grass- stones. water will enter into the top sales as it cascades through the cells of the water gets clean. it doesn't take- really expensive filtration- to o clean the water itit just takes nature to clean the water this project treats one down spout and two hundred thousand gallonsns of water. the project across the

street treats to downspouts warner thousand gallons of water we have identified- twenty five such projects in this immediate area but as you can imagine. it's exponential- any other city country all across the world can doo something similar and it's quite simple site.

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