. ♪ kwame anthony appiah: this is a democracy. everything that is done is done by us. people, authorize everything. our constitution is authorized by the people. you voted for the guys who voted for these laws. and if you did not vote, shame on you, because you should be attending to the task of voting in our society, because that is the most important political job you have as a citizen. james inhofer: it is so noisy out there. politics has been getting dumber and dumber. we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record. i asked the chair, you know what this is? it is a snowball. thomas friedman: partisanship is part of democratic politics, you want contending parties, but there is such a thing as too much. interest groups are a vital part of democracies and lobbying, lobbying is in our constitution, and there is such a thing as too much. we entered the land of too much the last decade, where it became partisanship for its own sake. and in that sense, we are also responsible. we elected these knuckleheads. and so if that is who we elected and then we reel

kwame anthony appiah>> we have to think of ways of incentivizing people to do the things that would be do. we have to give tax advantages to green businesses so that the technologies develop, which means that industries are on the side of making money, now are making the world's carbon neutral technology and so on. so i think these are manageable things. they need time, and we need to transition out of the old things. as you take some of the old harmful practices out, people's jobs disappear, communities get affected. you need to make sure that the benefits of the new which are shared among everybody aren't bought at the experience of destroying a particular community. michael bloomberg: it is true you lose jobs and, for example, coal mining, although that is pretty automated in the u.s. so that is not that many jobs. every single job you lose is tragic to the person losing the job. but we are creating a lot more jobs in clean energy, solar and wind, than we're losing in coal. the real conundrum for us is we have got to find some ways to help the people who lose their jobs get the jobs