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Public transport and warm homes. action is so vitally needed and when we look at the government's own plans, they don't even go half as far as they say they do. the numbers simply are not there. we need to be making sure that we are providing that scrutiny and making sure that we are speaking out at every opportunity about things like, a £27 billion road—building programme that will lock in further carbon emissions, orthe will lock in further carbon emissions, or the home is a strategy that has effectively failed to address lots of the net zero carbon potential that it had. all of these poi...

To see developed now. and that is the way forward. not to think that we have to suddenly stop being able to move around. but critics say the government�*s policies don�*t add up. they complain that the uk�*s £27 billion road programme will increase traffic when ministers want to decrease traffic. the high—speed rail project, hs2, with all its steel and concrete may not be zero emissions until the end of the century. we welcome the fact that the government has a strategy. but its technology heavily relies on developments that have not yet occurred. the idea of zero emission aviation is...

Any residual emissions will be offset by, say, planting trees. the answer in the future is to get to guilt—free flying and this country is committed to becoming the first in the world to fly transatlantic, within our generation, carbon free. it is all to do with the technology that we are starting to see developed now. and that is the way forward. not to think that we have to suddenly stop being able to move around. but critics say the government's policies don't add up. they complain that the uk's £27 billion road programme will increase traffic when ministers want to decrease traffic. the...

Seriously our commitment to reduce green house gas emissions, we can't lead the rest of the world either. i mean we need to set an example. so the bottom line is i think it can get in there. i think that there is a commitment on the part of the democrats and hopefully some republicans as well, that we have to act because we will continue to see these escalating events. let me say, victor. >> go ahead. >> you know, in the 1980s we spent about $17 billion a year on extreme weather events. in the 1990s we spent about $27 billion a year. last year we spent $95 billion a year on clean weather event...

Last couple of years. and specifically, take the example that your segment just that, where they are a request to cut $17 million in funding for police. in the last covid bill they are referencing, the biden administration gave california $27 billion. it carries a surplus -- of course they could fund to the police department of oakland, but this isn't a budget issue. it is a political issue, which democrats are intent on cutting funding to the police. it is what they have campaigned on, and it is where their party still is. this is not a budget issue, and the money was there for california if ...