people generally learning and more than anything i am great for thousand of. the millions of people around the world came to realize we just can't leave it to the government alone and enjoy one hundred twenty two nations signed at the united nations to adopt the the treaty to prohibit the nuclear weapon i have heard you in many other interests say over and over again that this anti and nuclear activism work you're doing this so that the death of your loved ones will now be in vain do you really have to make amends for what happened in forty five i mean it wasn't your fault you didn't drop the bomb. the blast is not your fault why do you feel that you are responsible in some way why do you burden

yourself where that why i'm responsible for this look i experienced that witness the massive death and destruction anybody with a conscience moral sense you can't just be men silent about that or a something is wrong somebody did it somebody created such destruction. must serve this of humanity entire city just disappeared with one bomb. when we learned that was caused by human beings. then we have to stand up and stop that kind of behavior by the human

being who is responsible united states with the response of all they have never said sorry about that unfortunately more importantly to make sure something like that should never happen again to any human beings to us that is a higher priority we have to stop at our cost and this is why we have been speaking out about our pain painful past experience the past seventy decades believe me it's not easy each time i talk about it my i try to embrace but still i don't see it pains me but i keep doing it

because there is no other way i can live this is my moral imperative. i guess that would be my answer to your city thank you so much for being with us tonight i have no words actually to express my gratitude. thank you for sharing. more i reload well this is the first time i speak to russian people well i promise you we're going to have another lengthy interview in the mirror so i promise you that much oh i i hope so i really want the russian people to think about life and death it's the life. every citizen i'm concerned not the national security international security and you know all these minute thirty juggins yes it's important for us to

know such things but the most important thing for us is to remember your money that's the most important thing i hope your message gets across and people will hear it and understand it and take it close to heart thank you so much sicko for talking to circuses arlo hiroshima bombing survivor and a disarmament companion or discussing how her great experience talent was addressed in a clear danger today that's it for this edition of sophie and co i'll see you next .

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america. more than a dozen cities and towns across the usa some in coastal communities as big as the big apple and as small as tiny imperial beach california have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies blaming them for the effects of climate change now a state is suing my state the ocean state rhode island governor geno rimando says that given that we have a president in the white house who denies climate change and has pulled out of the paris accord it puts a greater burden on states to take action and naming exxon mobil chevron b.p. and royal dutch shell among fourteen defendants our state attorney general did just that charging that big oil knew for decades that greenhouse gas pollution from their operations and their products were having

a significant and detrimental impact on the earth's climate how detrimental let's ask dr riess holter an eco stress physiologist specializing in earth's life support systems he is the author of among other books save nature now respect you for being here. it good evening the rhode island suit accuses big oil companies of refuting scientific findings about greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuel products violates the state's environmental rights by polluting natural resources and wants companies to pay for damages citing cost to repair roads and bridges and to rebuild coastal structures riess tiny rhode island has four hundred miles of coastline so we're not crying wolf about rising sea levels are we how real is this still rep very real whole and the oh it's the ocean state and look when you

think about this it's not just this state that is having to obviously contend with the rising sea and the roadworks and all of the infrastructure including fresh water it's there we people you and me on main street and we all have most of us is our equity is in our home this is threatening our our life savings everything that we've worked for so it's very real we know this is what we know we know that when you burn a solid chunk of coal or a gallon of gasoline so a solid and a liquid it turns into a gas we know that this is the twenty first century i am very proud to be a scientists we know that we also know that ninety three percent of that

gas when we burn a fossil fuel is in the ocean we know because scientists meticulously count five hundred sixty billion metric tons of carbon heat in the ocean that translates into three hundred zita joules of energy heat. we know that the oceans are becoming deoxygenated warm water holds less oxygen we know that the level of acidity is coming up so if your shellfish that means or a coral reef that means when it's more acidic your shell or the coral melts there are melting we know that we also know holland that the days are hotter the the heat waves are higher there lasting longer the droughts are worse the storms are more intense and we all know because just look around wherever you

live in america in any town or city thirty six million city and town trees a year are dying it's too hot no trees no shade no animals and when there's no animals by the way we're an animal so we're next race was the un hard what's done is done but can the electric cars and other alternatives make a meaningful difference going forward yes absolutely absolutely we take this five point three trillion subsidy away from big oil gas and coal and we we futureproof every town and city we have the solar the concentrated solar centers now that create super critical steam that is easily equal if not better to any of the gas plants and we have the lithium ion

battery power stations and we can we can power every town and city on planet earth right now as a matter of fact on this force you give me. five years of fossil fuel subsidies twenty five trillion dollars paul and and i will equip our planet solar and green energy and we walk completely from fossil fuels how good is that you leave coal and oil in the ground where god put it right . yes dr resultor you have said a mouthful literally thank you for your time tonight and for the work you do. now let's turn to america's lawyer mike papen tonio mike welcome to the big picture to be here thanks for the invitation these david and goliath lawsuits get lots of media attention but how many actually went what are some notable examples of the little guy beating the big corporation well you can do that but it has to be under

the right pleading it has to be under the right theory the reason these climate change for cases for example are being dismissed is because the pleading is not where it should be really interesting dichotomy about just the climate change case alone. the for example rhode island just filed a case a couple of weeks ago and there their argument is that they want to go after all of the oil companies and they want to hold them responsible for the damages that's a evident to everybody who's honest and paying attention but what they've done they've they've overreached holland the best way and it'll be dismissed that's my prediction it'll be if it's not if it's not dismissed at the trial level it'll be dismissed at the appellate level there's a problem that they have in the problem has to do with something we cause we call causation and that is that these companies in particular are responsible for the problem the smart case that's out there it's brilliant actually was was the case on

behalf of children that have brought the case and i think it's filed in denver yeah colorado colorado so these these children bought the case and they said look we're not asking for anything from the oil companies you know what we're doing we're done . mandating that the government follow the law the clean air act so it's a totally different approach it's what we call a writ of mandamus the mandamus says that you is that you in the process you in the process of governing have a responsibility to follow the law the law is it is very clear the clean air act says exactly what they're supposed to do the e.p.a. hasn't done it government hasn't done on the state level they haven't done it on the federal level and that's what that case is about the judge has allowed that to go forward because he can't he can't make a decision is a matter of law here's the difference is a matter of law he can't say well your writ of mandamus doesn't have merit to it a judge on the other side of the cons been brought in rhode island can as

a matter of law say look i've looked at the information you've got you've got to do the analysis you have breach of duty analysis and then you have a causation problem and you're not able to show that their conduct was the direct cause of this so the two kinds of cases are very different from the rhode island lawsuit the state contends as a direct and proximate consequence of defendant's wrongful conduct described in this complaint average sea level will rise substantially along rhode island's coast average temperatures and extreme heat days will increase flooding extreme precipitation events such as tropical storms and hurricanes and drought will become more frequent and more severe and the ocean will warm and become more has citic to paraphrase the watergate committee way back one what did big oil know and when did they know it well we know that they knew in one thousand nine hundred forty s. exxon has documents that go all the way back to the forty's where they are actually

doing metric models to find out what was actually going.