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diplomatic when it came to russia. big picture up next with a special tribute to legendary broadcaster larry king that's what i was just joining us again that. hello from rhode island we are the ocean state and we are home to the usa 1st offshore wind farm long island is about 13 miles south of rhode island 3 miles from its coastline 5 massive wind turbines now rise above the atlantic ocean supplying 30 megawatts of electricity to not only the island community but also to

the rhode island grid until those windmills our island. power plant was burning and belching into the atmosphere a 1000000 gallons of diesel fuel a year now there are new wind farms planted in the waters off shore of new england and elsewhere what other renewable energy progress can we expect under the think green of biden administration let's ask brian keene's president of smart power dot org named the nation's best nonprofit marketing firm helping to get the message out about energy efficiency and clean energy brian among other quick actions this president is taking to undo what the last president did is to get us back into the paris accord refresh our memory give us the cliff notes on the paris accord. well sure what a difference a week makes

a you know quite frankly the president is that the world wide agreement to actually rein in climate change and the previous president should say actually under president obama the united states agreed to actually help lead on the paris of chords and under president trump he really took us out and it's tragic that he did that because in fact the united states is one of the biggest years in one of the small this country's. president biden actually has brought us right back again and it's a huge deal because leading by example is extremely important should be hollande you know it's really actually so fascinating too is what he's just done what i think he's just done with his appointment to the u.s. department of energy you know so he appointed former michigan governor jennifer granholm to the u.s. steel week which is fascinating because you not have a former rust belt governor at the department of energy someone who actually

transformed the the car industry from you know combustion engines to now a place where every major karn in your fracture is making let your vehicles she's now at the u.s. department of energy that is passing him by the way one of the executive orders the president just did was to entirely change the 650000 fleet cars from combustion engines 200 vehicles so it's pretty significant and so now you know when you talk about climate change and what is we can do with paris that's a huge piece of that it's by the way i think about like this. in 2035 this is by the by the way the republican governor of massachusetts republican governor charlie baker he signed a bill that by 2035 in massachusetts you won't be able to buy a gasoline powered car so if massachusetts does that which they have done so will

go connected so it will go connecticut for ireland and new hampshire maine so go all of new england if new england does that so it will go to new york if new york does that so goes california so goes california so goes the country we will be in legit vehicle country and so putting governor granholm at the department of energy is just such great far range thinking to put the united states in a forward position on electric vehicles on a climate to lead once again for paris it's really unbelievable. michigan is and i don't want to make cars but it is in their d.n.a. is not president biden's goal to electrify the entire federal fleet that pretty ambitious yet all just set up an assembly line and then motown right. no of course not no you know it's a transition of cores but it's unbelievably exciting how you can actually start doing this and actually leading by example to us we really understand you know look

at it this way by the way that speaking of rhode island you know the former governor rhode island general mondo is now the secretary of commerce and so we understand that's under the previous administration they actually put a tear they put a tariff on solar panels coming in from out of the country in really an effort not to actually just punish the chinese but actually to punish the solar installers here in the united states so that we wouldn't have solar as secretary of commerce she can actually remove that tariff so that we can actually have more solar she actually do more wind so it actually really has we have really impacts and this is you know governor mando is a clean energy governor in now she's at the department of commerce it's unbelievably exciting this is how we can actually really become a key part of paris and actually the united states can actually start really leading once again and by the way think of it because just as an aside governor senator ted cruz had tweeted that you know being part of paris will help parents

the only reason we're doing this is to help parents which is just kind of a pathetic attempt to try to tweak junk being part of the paris accord is not about paris just same way that geneva convention was not about the city of geneva right it's sort of that simply where we sign and in agreement it's unbelievable and they have bishops as the electric a federal fleet maybe it is like the paris accord itself it's aspirational what are we obligated ourselves as a nation to do by getting back in on the paris accord one of the bullet points. well there's a lot of different there's a bunch of wrong and as a as a nation as a nation there's a bunch of things we can by the way do individually and collectively so you know some of the big things that you know the president just did you know the. determination of the x.l. pipeline you know sends off a lot of you know bells and whistles for people but the reality is if we're going

to be doing all these electric vehicles we're not going to need a pipeline we're going to really need to be really smart thinking forward how our economy is going to be moving forward and it's not simply going to be on fossil fuels of a 100 years ago so we've got to be really smart about what we're doing we're not necessarily going to be needing to drill on federal land you know we already understand that by the way arizona the state of arizona is saying they're going to be carbon free not carbon neutral carbon free by 2050 and arizona i mean so this is happening already. we really understand that there are things that the country in the president are doing to actually put us in a proper footing for the future not just for today in vance really the key thing and then by the way in you know president trump is this to this president biden says it too it's covert covert covert it's going to strong economy end a strong environment we have to deal with covert and that is what is really

happening so we can actually fix that piece the economy comes into play it we've always known that health care in the environment are inextricably linked and we're seeing that now more than ever it was with coke and that's really keep it as is climate just this week emmy award winning technology and science correspondent and new york times bestselling author david pogue is out with a new book how to prepare for climate change a practical guide to surviving the chaos in which he states it's too late to stop climate. change the oceans of already warmed enough to disrupt our weather food production and lifestyles for decades brian because i live on an island rising sea levels have my attention and these wildfires out west and the hurricanes and tornadoes down south in 2020 have been awful this is the big picture so brian

give us the wide angle shot can go in green at least stop the damage. you know what we have to quite frankly we have no choice we have to actually adapt in adopt to the green lifestyle because by the way it's a better lifestyle and there's no alternative the way we've been doing it is not is not going to fix our planet it's going to make it worse and is not simply in a we talk about our planet it's it's us there will not be a place to live if we don't fix this and so they have it like this by the way the hopeful message here alan is that when kobe hit week actually a few member back in march and april we were able to flatten that curve you actually did see initially by the way when people went into their homes. that the. for the 1st time you could actually see beijing from space because there

wasn't pollution in the air you could actually see. fish were in marine life coming back into into streams in in rivers that we've never seen before so the behavior change can happen we did it and i know you don't want to have to be in that position we don't want another that we don't want we want to get out of our asses and live but if we each do our piece right now if we start putting solar on our homes if we start actually living your life so doing just quick simple easy steps to do it right you know we don't know by the way how to live work out of our homes those of us that can't that's a big step in when we can and have to go into the office as we could and should but by the way maybe we can actually cut back on the tide on how much we have to drive if you new drive we should be driving electric vehicles the opportunities here are actually really they're here they're now and they're working and we should be doing at it when we each do our piece we actually live better healthier if we actually

can stop the climate change that we see is really happening this is not a hoax is not a joke it's here it's now but we can actually be part of the solution. and we've got a dollars and cents problem as well there are 12 zeros on a trillion how much taxpayer money is subsidizing fossil fuel companies now oh it's unbelievable i mean you know there's this is the kind of perennial discussion about you know oh tax breaks for you know renewable companies it's not even close it's not even close to the tax breaks that we have for fossil fuels and the money goes into drilling into getting these fossil fuels if we actually tell you that up we wouldn't be able to afford it gallon of gas for anybody so in and believe me i understand the the oil economy has helped drive our country i guess that the coal economy has worked but we now have actually mechanisms to actually

keep us warm it warm in the winter to keep our lights on and we should be using them and we can in by the way they all give jobs it's really this is the going to be the end it is the engine of our economy if you want as you want to go into it you need a job go into energy go into health care this is where it's ahead into the opportunities here are huge this is not something to be scared and i know people that know people are really scared but this is the huge opportunity and we should really grab onto it. yeah we miss our a former governor already she's going to be a great commerce secretary and she made that very point in her confirmation hearings there is work to be done in all of this brian kane smart power dot org you were the very 1st guest on my very 1st show and i appreciate you coming back for more take care of a lot coming up 3 in 4 children now in primary school will spend their careers in jobs that don't exist today what's the

outlook for your gig this is the big picture on our 2 year america. i might. show somebody an accident where a car goes through a field sign at the intersection. suggested the witness said they saw a stop sign stead of the yield sign. in these experiments many will adopt the suggestion we call it misinformation. claim as their own memory. the ruling class is rarely freo much but when it comes to china it is agreed the us needs to soto get

tough with beijing which is a really neat engaging china well trying to contain it is that even possible combined ministration will eventually have to answer this question. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. pick an industry any industry 2020 taught us that 2021 will be anything but business as usual and predicting the future of work 2021 at the recent

consumer electronics show experts from deloitte consulting called the corona virus and its economic and social fall out time machine to the future after changes predicted to happen over decades are instead taking place in weeks 85 percent of c.e.o.'s they surveyed say their company's digital transformation has significantly accelerated during the crisis and 3 in 4 intend to shift at least some employees to permanent remote work post pandemic and they report a surprising 13 percent increase in productivity realized from working at home it's almost an extra day of output per week but this comes at a human cost many work at homes complained of zoom for the team ceaseless video calls and many say they feel a blurring of the line between work and life lack of focus and isolation 3 quarters

of children entering primary school today will end up working in completely new jobs that don't yet exist 20000000 manufacturing jobs worldwide could be replaced by robots by 2030 so for certain job security be the person who repairs the robots a business leaders say their focus is shifting for from planning for the future to planning for the unknown what this means to you let's ask hillary ford which president of straw market business development consultants hillary how are the companies you work with evolving. well holland i want to give us a thank you for having me and you're totally right actually the movie has been the evolution is toward resilience to it you just broke and now it's resilience how can companies pivot good example of that actually would be of course people are no

longer in their cubicles and much worse the problems had it you know has had that unilever has now gone from making manufacturing to now what that word weren't doing before which is their manufacturing us that blobs and their manufacturing 33 will help we keep eat products are they weren't doing this before so they've totally and utterly to fit it in their very good example that why will rescaling be important due to the very point that you just mentioned holland that so many jobs in the future don't even exist today and they actually have quote a mckinsey says that 87 percent of senior executives say that the skills that they need in their organization don't even exist so rescaling is a huge trend also the rise of what would be the basically the contact free economy we've seen this and it's been accelerated during coded what were the contacts a couple of contactless economy bring it brings lots of things it brings more

digital commerce it brings automation in terms of whether we're human it's a good example of this of course can academy and we've seen what's happened with teachers unions even in fairfax county for example they demanded that they should have vaccines once the vaccines were issued to them they still wouldn't go back to work what do you think there's going to be a lot of teachers in the future and no parents across this nation aren't gas with how that the teachers unions have behaved during this so you will see a lot of contact less education it will touch every single aspect of business and then there are certain industries that are pivoted very well the restaurant industry even though 85 percent a family owned restaurants are ported to be out of business. restaurants have pivoted in terms of takeout food those that have delivery services for done very well cleaning services contactless you should say wait a 2nd they're in my how they've adapted very well in terms of how they got she

protected that people are grocery stores ringback we all experience that where is delivery was kind of a nice option a year ago now it is 89 percent of all grocery stores are offering delivering services liquor stores the same thing gagne fitness equipment actually yoga mats off the charts in terms of scale so companies have to pivot and then you factor something different they will survive and i think it is the rescaling you'll see will be the biggest priority 2021 i'm not surprised to hear you report all of this as a long time consultant i am a sucker for buzzwords but it just makes sense rescaling for resilience and about this contactless preference that is surfacing something else i picked up at c.s. was from harris polling data 8 in 10 americans don't want to sign a charge slip at the retail register anymore we are going digital the bureau of

labor statistics is reporting that employers cut 140000 jobs in december and all of those job losses happen to women especially blacks and latinos while white women actually had job gains and many of those jobs lost were in hard hit restaurant and hospitality industries and now other occupations just can't work at home and with school closings many mothers were forced to stay at home hilary or which occupations do you see suffering or disappearing entirely and which do you see as increasingly opportune. well it was mentioned touched upon briefly in your last segment but the health care industry when i talk just now about trends in terms of contactless who would have ever thought that tel doc would be hiring i think that wasn't smore doctors are and lot this isn't just

in the in the us there have been medical companies for example in sweden that have increased by 200 percent what is that it means that these remote doctors thousands the would be hired by tele doc to work remotely so that you don't have to go to a hospital you don't have to go to a clinic and i think that the health care industry with people becoming obviously more sensitive to their health hopefully focusing on their health but tele doc is an example of an industry that has grown extensively and where there are more jobs also while grocery stores have suffered to a certain degree i mentioned those that are pivoted to delivery services have done well groceries are never ever going away and retail will never go away just the bricks and mortar so delivery of everything u.p.s. is hiring thousands more workers obviously amazon has just gone through a recent hiring of 135000 so you're going to see all delivery services of

everything best buy is a good example and many other stores that never had a delivery service now are my prediction for the future and i am not a futurist but it is that you will basically see all the retail space use as apartments or living spaces eventually with population growth with increasing restrictions on development. it's kind of experience space but we will not in future generations have the same sort of retail experience that we did in the past if you look at some of the retail bastions of society that are now no longer in existence and some of those include you know obviously the lord and taylor's in the j.c. penney's macy's is just announced that in 2021 they will also be closing $35.00 more locations and they've already closed $79.00 locations so you're going to see total withdrawal from the retail hands on experience and you'll also see and obviously this year will be very very sad you ask which jobs you're going to see

attorneys booming in chance of bankruptcies and you're going to see more any activity you're going to see any activity expand with the big stores gobbling up those like the brooks brothers that are going out of this that's unlike a macy's or like lord and taylor and like j.c. penney. i have been eager to catch up with you based on something else that's in the news lately and while we have you i've got to ask about bitcoin which has been such a roller coaster you'll recall how our dear departed chum a bart chilton was aghast when because 20000 dollars and 2017 and it was $3000.00 and change a year later lately it's top 40 k. hillary in layman's terms how does crypto currency work and as a tool risky for the average investor i got a minute talk some sense to us ok

a couple of just big picture points what it is ok what it is a contact last currency in a nutshell so that's why it has such a great appeal there's a downside and an upside the downside is that it has been speculated that it was used for a lot of illicit or illegal transactions whereas that now it's been refuted by over the big investors the big banks that want to get in on the line one of the upside in a nutshell for you the upside are that multimillions in fact billions of dollars can be transferred relatively quickly literally within 5 minutes across the nation's instead of all ringback the transaction costs and time that used to occur to banking institutions what are the issues around big quite well as a crypto crypto currencies in general the big banks were against them why because they would lose all those transaction fees and all of the ownership of the currency when they become ubiquitous in the late man any viewer watching could actually buy

some of that buying and you could have an or you could have a coin based on your cell phone and you can actually buy part of a decline or a big client which means you can only yourself and you don't have to have an institution so you can actually say i don't want to work with that big morgan stanley that big marilyn cheney more i want to i want to transfer. but not always and watch out again or 3. is this not a. though for those watching it's not a real investment opportunity i just smell pump and dump there shouldn't the people watching be wary of thinking it as an investment 30 seconds. put it this way this is what i'm going to do this what i think people should do consider it like gambling go to a casino with a $100.00 or have a much as palatable for you and then once you've won back your $100.00 put it in your pocket and doorway but in play with all the rest of the money play with the

play money i'm going to play with all of my upside just play with your upside in you actually lose nothing and i think we will see in the future the tocantins take off and i believe they are way up on let's artsy with a future of note risk your life savings and maybe your original. well we all miss the casinos and when we're allowed to go back just remember always no matter what the dealer is showing always split aces and eights and insurance is statistically a sucker bet strong by president hillary ford which thanks again for stepping into the big picture and thank you for watching the big picture we're going to be back next week same time and if you want to set your d.v.r. we're channel 321 t.v. if you have the dish dish we're channel 2 avi a live stream for all of our t. america is at youtube dot com slash r t america and all our shows are archived not only at youtube dot com slash the

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