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I remember sitting and watching this
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particular cartoon in the 90s as a kid
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wanting to be a global warrior what
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happened it didn't happen all of us I
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back in the early 90s I remember
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watching this cartoon and wanting to be
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a Planeteer what do you know about
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climate change research since the
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pre-industrial period human activities
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have increased the Earth's average
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temperature by about one point eight
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degrees Fahrenheit in order to get some
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of my questions about climate change
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answered I'm gonna go see a man that I
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knew since I was a teenager
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I do believe that greenhouse emissions
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is have a pond the climate and the
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I'm not climatologist I did not start
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looking into climate change until my
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younger son Chris had a science project
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and he decided he was going to measure
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the co2 concentration in urban areas and
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wooded areas to see if there was a
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difference so we collected sample he
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collected samples we analyzed them for
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him and the results were different
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there's the standard was called the CRC
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Handbook every engineer uses a different
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scientist uses it the concentration
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listed for co2 was much different than
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we were measuring serious global warming
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it was actually brought out in 1898 the
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theory that human emissions could change
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the climate by adding co2 to the
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atmosphere and causing retention of heat
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since the pre-industrial
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which is a number that is increasing
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plan average surface temperature has
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eight of the twelve months that Maidan
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I had set myself up but I loved the
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interview with the local number-one with
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her man Chris home in general 11 ABC and
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I had went shot got everything but then
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I got home and the footage was change
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over time there's been there's nothing
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to do with climate change but the impact
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of climate change is undeniable it is up
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to us to change the minds of lawmakers
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as well as a change in our actions which
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can impact climate change more than a
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million people are being told right now
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to get out because of this what you're
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looking at right now is a satellite
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image of the eve of hurricane Florence a
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potentially devastating category 4
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hurricane approaching the southeastern
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coast the National Oceanic and
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Atmospheric Administration or NOAA
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tracks weather and storms while the
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Federal Emergency Management Agency or
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FEMA deals with the impacts of those
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extreme weather occurrences and other
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disasters however it would seem like
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Congress in the White House do more to
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increase the America however it seems
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like Congress and the White House aren't
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doing quite enough to make americans
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aware nor prepare us for these extreme
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changes that seem to be happening every
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year the US and 2011 experienced a
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record 14 weather-related disasters each
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in excess of a billion dollars to clean
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up and take care of hello everyone I'm
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Fredrika Whitfield in for Kate Baldwin a
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thanks so much for joining me right now
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we are getting a brand new update on the
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path and the strength of hurricane
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the powerful storm that looks like it
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has headed straight towards Florida the
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National Hurricane Center has just
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issued its latest advisory and at the
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moment all signs point to this being
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a major hurricane and breaking news of
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course a catastrophic category 5 storm
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in fact that has become the strongest
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hurricane in modern records to hit the
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Bahamas and it is still making its way
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to the southeastern part of the United
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rainfall events this is the beginning of
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the Industrial Revolution the SST of
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surface ocean waters has increased by
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about 30 percent this increases
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looking at the sunflowers in Raleigh we
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discovered just how beautiful and how
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wonderful nature is and how much we need
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to protect it and care for it from the
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bees to everything including my stubborn
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cats but how can we stop things like
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deforestation and fires and such that
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have been increasing in number over the
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years explain wildfires in the Amazon
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rainforest have ignited a diplomatic
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firestorm ahead of that g7 summit that
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oh that trees give us oxygen yes how do
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trees give us oxygen photosynthesis okay
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did you know that the trees take the
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harmful carbon and methane gases that
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are released into the world and turn
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them into oxygen do you know where they
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store the methane and carbon gases they
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store them inside themselves so all the
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trees take the carbon and methane gases
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and store them and that's what helps
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them grow but if we cut them down or we
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burn them what do you think happens to
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is this issue of climate change
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how do you believe that we as
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individuals can help alleviate the
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problem of admissions in terms of
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changing a lot of things the individuals
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can do probably one of the most
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important is to make sure that our
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representatives understand the level of
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importance that that can cause more
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positive movement than anything else but
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on the individual level in people who
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conserve fuel on the cars I the better
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gas mileage less emissions conserve
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electricity use more renewable energies
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we have my brother-in-law and sister his
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wife put solar panels on their house
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that was a big investment for them but
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in the long run it will lower their
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electric bill but it will also lower the
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emissions so you know that's one thing
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one of things I love to do is plant
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trees things like that they don't have a
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big impact individually but the
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cumulative effect of all individuals
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working in that direction will have some
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positive movement but the impact of
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climate change is undeniable just loved
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us to change the minds of lawmakers as
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well as a change in our actions which
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can impact climate change is to
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sequester carbon because the problem
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we've got is carbon that were in trees
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and plants millions of years ago have
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converted to petroleum products and we
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burned them we release them back to the
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atmosphere so if you plant a tree as the
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tree grows it pulls in the carbon
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dioxide it takes the carbon out of the
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carbon dioxide and releases the oxygen
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that carbon creates the wood that is the
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base of the tree the leaves all of those
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amounts of carbon are sequestered for
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time while the tree is growing after the
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tree dies it can be released slowly or
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it may be used like in the case of
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buildings we have wood that is in houses
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for hundreds of years that wood has a
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decayed it has maintained the carbon
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it's not as efficient as the you know
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billions of gallons of liquefied carbon
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okay thing that is to me as prevalent is
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people want to ignore the science the
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scientists are just in it for the money
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I don't know any scientist that's in it
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for the money they don't make enough but
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they're gonna because they love science
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and they a lot of them are afraid of
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what the future may bring and I'm afraid
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of what the future may bring it's not
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going to bother me it's gonna bother us
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my children and people who have
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grandchildren and you know each
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generation is going to suffer more what
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cause of our inaction in action you mean
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this the United States will withdraw
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from the Paris climate Accord
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yes the Paris climate Accord the thing
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that all of the nations came to give and
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greed hey we really screwed up the
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regulatory climate the political climate
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is EPA causes problems for business and
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that's bad and that's not the case
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EPA regulations may cost money for the
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businesses but those are the same
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businesses that offering the the gold
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mines and left pollution behind for the
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rest of us to clean up strip mines I
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grew up in West Virginia there are a lot
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of abandoned mines that the general
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population is going to pay to clean up
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because the coal companies went bankrupt
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and there's no money for them to clean
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an episode if it's clean we're gonna
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have to do it all the Superfund sites
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those are cleaned up by tax dollars
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there are a lot of problem areas and
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businesses are great I mean either
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Island business there are much benefits
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that we gain from having a capitalistic
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society but business is out for profit
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and too many times profit comes above
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what is right and sometimes that causes
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pollution and that causes problems for
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people when we have a political climate
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that says any regulation is bad you've
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pushed too far so I guess the real
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question is how do we keep this from
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affecting our future generations and our
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children it's like I said we have to
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take care of the environment we have to
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recycle we have to be aware of what
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we're doing with our trash and what
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we're doing with our emissions because
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it's our planet and there's
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in this thrown one we have
