hurricane irma, hurricane harvey, and the extreme weather sweeping the globe, we are joined by bill mckibben, co-founder of 350.org. he's the author of several books , including "eaarth: making a life on a tough new planet." bill, welcome back to democracy now! is barreling through the caribbean and at least 10 people have been killed, as houston is digging o out from being underwater, president trump was in north dakota celebrating that he pulled out of the paris climate accord and greenlighted thee dakota access pipeline and keystone xl. your response? >> i was interested to hear president trump saying people have no idea how bad it was, the paris climate accord. i have a feeling that is a phrase that a lot of houstonians have been using a last week and the caribbean today of people will be saying up and down the sououtheast coast of te united states. in washington anand oregon, peoe who aren't in the middle of these disasters have no idea how bad they are. in fact, really, americans can't have any idea how bad they are because we have never had anything quite like them. in houston,rvey wh

bill mckibben said, in the same world, you would be calling for covering cuts,s, not taxax cuts.t is once again a world upside down. in a m moment like this, where governments are about to be handed a multibillion dollar cleanup bill and reconstruction bill and have already been handed that because of harvey, surely, you need more money from corporations. let's rememberer, his tax plan would give the biggest tax cut to corporations that they have had in many decades. we will see what ends up happening through the negotiations, but his original goal was to cut corporate taxes down to 15 percent. so he is bankrupting the government. how do you pay for the impacts of climate change? it is exactly the wrong approach. but what i argued in the piece you mention earlier is that it was really revealing, not just around the shock doctrine, but why the crisis of climate change is such a profound threat to the ideological right, to the people who have been advancing this radical vision of the world that joseph stiglitz has called market fundamentalism, which has at the centerpiece, privatiz