To the Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty the language that was in there about acquire some people quibble over, but their commitment to the npt was clear and i misspoke in that regard. Thank you. I appreciate your comment in response to questions from senator markly and others about keeping a seat at the table through the Paris Agreement and the general approach that suggests. I believe Climate Change is a major concern for us in the long term and the short term, and that its human caused and there are actions we can and should take in response to it as a trained chemist, i respect your training as an engineer, would urge you to be a Tttentive To T science because i think it is overwhelming to this point. I do think the jpoa structure, p 5 plus 1 that brought it into force and is enforcing it and the Paris Climate Agreement are two examples of tables where we should have a seat at the table and be advocates and be driving
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Cares. That itself was an interesting thing to watch at the time. President ial nominee absents himself from the Party Platform process. Interesting. But what was way more interesting than that, what was riveting and bizarre to watch at the time that we Couldnt Make Heads Or Tails of at the time was the Trump Campaigns one exception on the Party Platform. Even hope the they let this other stuff slide, that was very much not in keeping with trump and the campaign, they did decide to get up on their hind legs and fight and intercede aggressively for one specific thing in the platform. One specific part of the republican Party Platform, and that was a thing about russia. There was a proposed plank for the republican Party Platform that said ukraine should get help from the United States up to and including lethal weaponry so ukraine could fight off russian incursions. And you know what, the Trump Campaign let Everything Else in the platform slide. Even stuff that might theoretically have
with the bill as it is now written. this isn t signed and sealed. this is still a bill in progress and happening right now, those senators and members of the house, looking at the fine print to see if they can sign off on it. peter bowes there. senior oil companies have denied that they deliberately misled the word about climate change. they said that their understanding of global warming she asked for a commitment from the companies which included exxon mobil, chevron and shell that they would not spend money opposing efforts to tackle climate change. here is the ceo of bp america responding. what i would say is that we have stopped all reputational advertising at bp. i know you have taken steps in the right direction and i heard that in your testimony, thank you, but will you take the pledge, yes or no? for your specific pledge what we are advocating for is low carbon
because it will deflect. i zuckerberg got into the concept of the metaverse that is from science fiction but has been popularised by thought leaders and it is this umbrella thought that when companies and platforms have things connected and it is his passion project and it is his passion project and it s almost like what i ve heard from sources in the company that it s almost like he wants to distance himself personally from the problems of the core social network. he wants to look elsewhere and it s almost like he wants to focus on the future and doesn t want to pay attention to the present so there is this rallying around the ceo passion project but also a political angle which is trying to have a fresh start with regulators and trying to create the next internet together and it will be privacy orientated and will be privacy orientated and will be safe and there is a communications going where every time we talk about facebook in a headline we have
and how much you change the economy to a cleaner and greener path. economy to a cleaner and greener path. economy to a cleaner and areener ath. , .,, ., ~ greener path. some people make comparisons greener path. some people make comparisons with greener path. some people make comparisons with the greener path. some people make comparisons with the tobacco - comparisons with the tobacco hearings of the 90s. is it as big as that? you have similar kinds of protestations from previous oil ceos, most notably lee raymond who previously was the ceo of exxon who denied any link between fossil fuels exxon who denied any link between fossilfuels and exxon who denied any link between fossil fuels and global warming and today the current ceo of exxon was asked about that and was asked to admit it was a mistake and it was not true and he simply wouldn t do that, the ceo would not acknowledge that that is what would happen that exxon had made a mistake at the very