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Storms are building. Floods are surging. Wildfires are blazing. Heat and drought are desiccating the earth. People are suffering, their livelihoods combusting like so much dredged-up fossil matter.And yet the best our politicians, pundits and CEOs can offer is the suicidal promise to keep beating the same business-as-usual drum that got us into this existential bind in the first place.If we’re going to have any kind of future on this planet, we must go beyond reduced carbon footprints, net zer...

More, or that they should wait two more years. i have people crawling into my office, almost, literally, every week, saying, if i only can make it until im 65 years old, these are proposals that not only are wildly unpopular, but they make no sense. >> theyre bad policy. >> in terms of efficient health care. >> and they dont save a lot of money, i should also note. if cost driving is what youre -- very quickly, yes or ç no, do you see raising the eligibility age as a red line? as the thing that...

Suggest that they should pay more, or that they should wait two more years. i have people crawling into my office, almost, literally, every week, saying, if i only can make it until im 65 years old, these are proposals that not only are wildly unpopular, but they make no sense. >> theyre bad policy. >> in terms of efficient health care. >> and they dont save a lot of money, i should also note. if cost driving is what youre -- very quickly, yes or no, do you see raising the eligibility age as a r...

Kinds of efficiencies. but asking seniors, whose median income in the united states of america is $22,000 a year, to suggest that they should pay more, or that they should wait two more years. i have people crawling into my office, almost, literally, every week, saying, if i only can make it until im 65 years old, these are proposals that not only are wildly unpopular, but they make no sense. >> theyre bad policy. >> in terms of efficient health care. >> and they dont save a lot of money, i shou...

And that the republican ideas about medicare have been misrepresented in order to scare voters. what is your response to that? >> i think his plan scared voters before i even was on the scene. the idea of breaking the promise that we made to our seniors over 45 years ago, doesnt sit well with people. people paid into this program since their high school job. its not a charity program. i understand the need to get the underlying cost driving health care up under control. that does not mean you to...

Medicare have been misrepresented in order to scare voters. whats your response to that? >> i think his plan scared voters before i even was on the scene. the idea of breaking the promise that we made to our seniors over 45 years ago, doesnt sit well with people. people paid into this program since their high school job. its not a charity program. i understand the need to get the underlying cost driving health care up under control. that does not mean you touch the beneficiaries. you go after th...

Whats your response to that? >> i think his plan scared voters before i even was on the scene. the idea of breaking the promise that we made to our seniors over 45 years ago, doesnt sit well with people. people paid into this program since their high school job. its not a charity program. i understand the need to get the underlying cost driving health care up under control. that does not mean you touch the beneficiaries. you go after the underlying cost of health care. thats another whole topic....