vermont the the. native americans of that community actually had stories of when the global war on the when the blew up sheets of ice to banish them some geologist the university of vermont actually tracked back their stories as being apparently relatively accurate. these changes these climatic changes produced massive cultural changes and and you know arguably the beginning or the end of agriculture in various places the beginning and end of different species arguably but the neanderthals vanished coincidentally with the with with an ice age how do we had how do we adapt to these kind of changes what do you have any sense so you put your science fiction head on for a minute what what what will we do what what's it going to look like. well if you look at the past like that for example the native americans let's say or others humans have been through incredible climatic and environmental changes in the past the one of my recent research papers was about a tremendous drought that lasted for centuries throughout southern asia and most of africa near the end of the last ice age probably killed a lot of people were basically when the monsoons failed and yet humanki

vermont is doing? single payer. do not tell any conservatives you know about this. they are going to freak out. >> i happen to be a proponent of single-payer universalealth care. [ applause ] that's what i'd like to see. but as all of you know, we may not get there immediately because first we've got to take back the white house and we've got to take back the senate and we've got to take back the -- >> if i were designing a system from scratch, then i'd probably set up a single-payer system. >> there are some people who proposed in the past medicare for all. that essentially is what's called a single-payer plan. and a lot of countries have single-payer plans. i have to tell you that politically it would have been difficult and it would have been very disruptive. >> whatever the politics that ultimately made it too difficult and disruptive at the national level in the president's estimation, vermont thinks that at the state level they are perfectly happy to do it. it's essentially medicare for all. one of the architects of the modern medicare program designed a plan for vermont that he says will save the state at least $580 million a year. in a state