Transcripts For CSPAN Campaign 2020 Climate Forum With John

Transcripts For CSPAN Campaign 2020 Climate Forum With John Delaney Tim Ryan 20240714

Ok. Hello, everybody. Welcome. Come on in if youre in the back. Have a seat. The congressmen have arrived. I am gary. I want to welcome you to stonyfield. In particular, besides thanking you all for coming out on a i want to tell you a little bit about the series we plan to keep running right through our primary. Remember believe it or not, it is months to go. I want to thank the organizations who have helped us to put this together. Is in the back here. Rogers farm, our csa. Here . Meyer, are you from New Hampshire young dems . Lucas went to the trump rally and tweeted out about it. It was very interesting. You should check it out. Rob warner is in the back here. So, thank you all. In addition to helping to put before them together, the fellow nonprofits and activist have put the question together we will be putting to the various candidates. Not tonight. We will be speaking with two candidates. . Hat are we doing here i think it is important to remind ourselves, Climate Change is by far, we think, the most important challenge we face now and for future generations. Greatest threat is his potential to impact the production. There are new organisms, ticks and so forth, animal stressed under the high heat, hotter hot, cold or cold, much more intense storms. We are often seeing the most intense drought and storms in the same year. Northeast, we are feeling our share of it. An increasing number of high a toll. S are taking many farmers are only grazing at night now. They cannot the animals out during the day. It excess precipitation is already a leading cause of crop loss. It indicates much more damage. Delays and planting, production delays are actually workable. Anyone involved with agriculture knows june was a washout. The country, very similar stories can be told. I have spoken to this on the National Debate stage. Climate change is having a Significant Impact on food access and also price. Be more so. Only this is happening at a time when farmers are being squeezed by the worst agricultural economy we have seen in decades. If you are not organic, you are an endangered species appear, and organic, we can help the ismers make it, but it tough, tough going. At stonyfield, we are big believers in the power of business to address this paradigm and change the world for good. Our carbon footprint, there are an immense number of things going on, and of course, just the and organic alone. We also see the limit of what physicists can do. Scientists are in agreement that to keep Global Temperatures below 1. 5 degrees, we must transition away from fossil fuels. I think we will talk about this tonight. That is why it is oh critical we get federal legislation so critical that we get legislation to make sure we are 100 powered by clean energy no later than 2050 and you have heard congressman ryan speak about this on the national stage. There are three deniers, i think, left on earth at this point. The head of the doe would be one of the others. We must elect someone who grasp time is short. Sponsors have come together for this series. Be as follows. We will spend 30 minutes with each candidate, beginning with tim ryan and congressman delaney will join us afterward. Each candidate will have about 15 minutes to deliver Opening Statements and followup with 10 minutes of prepared questions and we will follow that with tenants 10 minutes of your questions. We are being filmed live on cspan. I will need to bring a mic to you. Please know speechifying. I promise. The mic, let me introduce congressman tim ryan. Tim [applause] he is the congressmen representing ohios 18th district where he has served since january of 2003. Seven been reelected times. He has served as a member of the appropriations committee. We have met a number of times in d. C. He is a real hero for us. Thank you so much. [applause] rep. Ryan thank you. I will distract you well my staff is getting all of the free food. This is really exciting. I am a guy from northeast ohio. State. An agricultural about five or six years ago i wrote a book called the real on how we cann build out this new system we need to have in the United States. I have learned so much more since i started riding that book. , it to give you context would just like to say i have a beautiful wife, andrea, who is a First Grade School teacher. Is fiveur little guy, and my wife and i share a passion for this issue. Shes a teacher who would let kids eat in her classroom if they were eating whole foods. She would get parents who would come to her during the parentteacher conference and keep comings my kid home and asking me for bags of carrots . The kids love to them. Its part of how we need to move forward. Climate, but as i have been trying to say throughout this residential , we need to stop looking at these issues in silos. They are all did and it is a way. So we have to address this issue from a 30,000 foot standpoint that is connecting all of the dots that are there, in education, and health care, in policy. Ure, in tax here we are talking about climate, but climate is interconnected to all of those issues as well. Sorry to see that governor jay inslee is not here. He is an old, dear friend of mine and if we can give him a round of applause because he had one of the most amazing plans around climate. I like the guy. He was my roommate when we were in congress together. I told him, he has a much cleaner energy plan then he did room in our apartment. What i ams kind of thinking. Piecek the agricultural is good. Regenerative agriculture, cover crops, all the things were talking about here. At i think its essential for the environment. Goingessential, not just carbon neutral, but reversing Climate Change. Gary and i were talking about this earlier. Is working. Its already happening. When i go to New Hampshire or were ever i travel, i try to stop at a farm that is doing social media. So we can let people know this is the way to move forward. That farmers, some of whom do not even think the climate issue is caused by man, still want to do regenerative agriculture because they want to sequester carbon and increase organic material into the soil so they do not have to use as many pesticides and they can make more money. I dont care what they believe if what they want to do is sequester carbon and reduce use and nitrogen and fertilizer because we are destroying the environment and so much of this has to do with what is happening on the farms. You go to places like iowa. You saw what was happening with the flooding. For every 1 of organic material 27thased, it holds another house and gallons of water. And we are having flooding. And we are using so much fertilizer running off the farms, going into the rivers, going into the dead zone. Kills 220,000 metric tons of fish a year. It is destroying the fishing industry in so many places around our country and they are projecting theres 20 or 25 other dead zones around the world and we are trying to get meats. , lean nwin. S a winwi i will just talk politics for a second. We are going to sequester carbon. Er carbon. The farmers o have like brown and Allen Williams and others, who are making money agriculture. Rative they are the only ones actual making money now. Farmers havent a profit in five years. And brown, up in north dakota, regenrethe leader in the active movement. Hes not even taking crop subsidies. Imagine us moving to a political solution with democrats, republicans, and libertarians and independent take on the ould industrial farming monopolies. We can build out a system publicprivate partnerships, to teaching farmers how to grow, maybe assistance as out of the ion industrial agriculture business ag the regenerative business. Were going to reduce algae blooms. Were going to rehabilitate the nitrogen get all the out of the rivers. Were going to be able to fishing industry around the different areas of the United States. Were going to grow more food. Nable i think we should also create these farms by ncouraging prisons, schools, universetis, to buy fresh, local foods. O youre not just helping them build the system out. But youre also creating markets. Farmers like markets. They want someone to sell. Stuff. Y to buy their so how do we move to start enseen incent vies and create markets. Progressive as a democrat, weve got to have the new ideas. Its not left or right, its new better. Like the leftright divide, forget that. Thats 40 years of like arguments. Im done. Im 46 years old. I was born in 1973. Watergate. Im done. Im done with the culture wars. Im done with the fighting. Move forward with new ideas that build new coalitions. Healthy, you know. 75 of our just say, healthcare costs in the United States are from chronic diseases preventable. B y diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers. To make sure were providing food as medicine which is reversing these chronic were going to reverse chronic diseases with food and medicine we need farms food. Are producing how about that for a change. Night, everybody. Mra [applause] there e is a cup right youre welcome to share my water. I would share with you any day. A this conversation would be little different. The night is young. Uplook, i want to pick right where you just left. Obviously a candidate who understands these issues. Specifics. E talk some what are your president ryan are your plans to support farmers through incentives, research and new investments. Would you actually implement these ideas . There are a variety of ways. I actually want to do a town hall on this, which youre invited to. Have you but i want to do it with gabe brown and Alan Williams in some of these key areas. Let me say a couple of things. One, i think there will be a transition so the government probably play a role in us moving from industrial ag to regenerative. There may have to be credits, something to incentivize farmers for putting carbon in the soil. Not convinced that it has to last a very long time because some of these egeneraltive farmers, within a year they are making money. They clean their rivers, bike renovating know, theaters, Building Community back up into the downtowns, water, sewer, and all the rest. Make sure they are healthy that. Money could be spent there. Its important that we reinvest back into the ag extensions, and use the usda and he Conservation Service to put teams, and im totally stealing this from Alan Williams, but or five teams together of four or five people in every state, to actually farmers how to do this. Because thats the big problem. They dont know what to do. Stuck, and they would rather go fill out the paperwork and get the money that president to give them, because they have got nowhere else to go. Democrat going into Rural America saying, weve got a plan for you. Said and youre going to make more money off of me than you ever made off of trump. Hearhear. So youre in congress. Functional the most days. These you are president , and mitch mcconnell, we dont get the senate. Deal with a Reluctant Senate when i comes to facing any of these issues . I think you build that coalition. One of the things im trying to do now even in the democratic primary because i think a lot of primary voters are saying how are you going to get it done, which is legitimate in 2019 in america. I think you put that coalition together. You know, im going to do and hing with gabe brown Alan Williams, and very ublicly, and start educating republican farmers, libertarian farmers to say, look, are you reducing cropd in subsidies . Thats government spending. Where is the club for growth on subsidies, right . I mean, my job as president is coalition, and i believe that genretive, if properly, is capable of actually getting a coalition ogether of republicans and libertarians and liberal democrats to actually move on this stuff. And why do you think it happened . Because youre making economic ought to appeal on both sides. Where is the problem . You and k its just, far , you guys were so ahead of the curve its not even funny, but its i think a resident like me could throw, you know, i say gasoline and all manure, you y, no, throw manure on it. Emerging, its just and i think there are so many young people, i think the limate issue is getting people to say, okay, where is that it we can actually move . So i just think you need, like company, any church, any school, you need a leader. You need a leader who can put it i believe im the leader that can put it together. And two last questions then well look to you all here. A re is this commitment to hundred percent, i think i know the answer to this question but i want to give you a chance to to it, to commit to awn 2050. Nt clean energy by is that your commitment, and if so, where are you planning to away . Right absolutely. I think ag is the first place we go. Ag and invasion. Those are the two areas where we be, to go and the key will i hope we dont have to wait until 2050, the way things are moving. Sanders and i got into this during the debate. Cars in ke banning gas 2040. In my mind, in all honesty, kay, great, whatever but if were waiting to 2040 to get rid of gas vehicles, were doing wrong. Ng specialably and what i like what you said in the introduction, when you were making your little we have to , is align the financial incentives ith the environmental incentives, and if we do that then you get Venture Capital coming in. Making money, and when we pass the energy bill in of and we lost a lot members of the house of representatives because of that, was selling that in youngstown, ohio, as a jobs jay did this, too, ensley. R this is a jobs program. This is how we have to talk about this. Next 10 n made in the years. We want those made in the United States. Batteries, we want batteries made in the United States. Solar. We want solar panels made in the United States. 8,000 parts to a wind turbine. How do we present this in a way in youngstown, ohio, goes, i want in on that, wantse Venture Capitalist in on that. Unionize this jobs like the auto jobs were losing. Saying, l behind this okay, farmers, Rural America, like, okay, we can actually do where Everybody Wins here, and maybe industrial ages will take a hit. Into ill find their way making money. I guarantee you that. So yes. 2050, i would hope were talking about it a lot sooner than that. Answered three of my questions in one so good work. Lets get to you all. Again, ill going to bring you a mic and if you could say your name and stand and ask your to this congressman. Thank you. Name is rebekah. Im part of a local group thats to fight a pipeline, a gas pipeline that they are manchester ild from to exeter called the granite bridge. Would you if elected, consider banning fracking on federal lands . Absolutely. Absolutely. On federal lands. Piece is aatural Gas Transition for us. Eve got to be the problem is, like weve said, its a transition and there are a lot from thatwhere i come are making pretty good money working there. Jobs in of the best the country quite frankly but weve got to move so much faster. Weve got g to gary, to move on this stuff. Heres the thing that i just, i my st feel like its position in life to remind people of this because they know, those coal miners were making a hundred thousand dollars a year and work in the natural gas industry, they make a hundred thousand dollars a year. Its not easy work but they work overtime. They live in poorer communities. They have a nice house. A pool in thehave back. They have a truck. They take their kids hunting. Go on vacationly every year. They can go see a ball game, you know, go see a Football Game a year. They can go to a baseball game once a year. They are the wealthiest people their town, and we cant come to them and say, do you want to panels and make 35,000 a year because they are we going to be for that, and have to come to them, which is why i keep saying, jobs, union a year ndred thousand with overtime, 80 thousand a ear, healthcare, benefits, retirement, thats got to be the democratic message and right is, you wantey hear me to make solar panels making 40,000 a year. Ill make whatever you want me to make if you pay me a hundred thousand. Ill be against coal, too, real quick. Eve got to be the party that moves them. We cant ignore it if we dont pool a certain amount of people certain states into our coalition, and so that to me for be the key politically us. Who are we going to nominate that can go into those communities and really let those workers say, this candidate, tim would be my preference, he gets me. He knows what we need, and i him to bring me these jobs. And they should because i will. Then we can build that fdr coalition that led to 20 or 30 years of real, deep structural reform, not just back and forth. Thank you, tim. Another question back here. Hi, i spent most of my life in missouri, but i live in New Hampshire now. New hampshire has a really great diversity of agriculture compared to the midwest. Currently, our farm bill, we are paying farmers at a 75 to 90 cost share rate to implement cost share practices. Usda has these awesome programs, and i find the rep. Ryan they are what in New Hampshire . Farmers take advantage of these services in New Hampshire, but in the midwest, it is a different story. In big ag, they are not taking advantage of these government programs. I wonder how you are planning on changing these policies within the farm bill to incentivize that, uptake of new crops, draft waterways in big ag. Rep. Ryan i dont want to say they are easy, but those are policy prescriptions that i think will incentivize and move the needle and will be needed in the short term. I think the big issue for us is how do we change the culture of a lot of these farmers. You know being from missouri and iowa and ohio, there is a reluctance to change, because they are jumping into the unknown. Even as bad as things are, they know it. The president threw them a bone but they are stuck. These teams we are talking about setting up from the landgrant colleges, from the ag extensions in communities throughout the industrial midwest, using the usda, set up these teams of people

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