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>> i don't think so. >> the utility companies, the coal companies, the fossil fuel industry, this is something they're examining every day. everyone is looking at what the emissions rate around the world is. the fact that the earth is warming very, very quickly. the arctic is melts in front of our ois. the city of new york was closed down from a massive storm. this is very much present. steve said we used to say it's a problem of the future. it's a problem of now, and we have to build the pauktics to get that result. >> there's a massive link between flooding in the brooklyn battery tunnel and...

Shrouded in darkness. that is something we keep needing to remind ourselves. for any of your viewers that want to know what they can do to help bring light and power. >> to get to that $1 billion budget. >> absolutely and hope to the poorest people in the world. i would like to welcome them to visit our website, self.org. >> for full disclosure, i always give it every year. it is incredibly worthy to give to. folks should check that out. >> i learned that rio tinto, the mining company, is using wind turbines for a diamond mind in northern canada, not for environmental reasons but because it is...

Your sense of where your -- the spektor of ground water contamination. >> time has said a lot of things, and a lot is based again on misinformation. we live over shale, and this is a gas-producing shale. i have tested water in osego county, and 20% of the water tested with no gas drilling occurring already has methane in it. there have been people lighting their faucets in our area for a long, long time. ask any of the old people na live in the area. it's something they did as kids. it was fun. so the methane is in the water. >> let me say this, and this is an important note. i don't want to l...

Another big factor are the number of different products that solar companies are offering. you asked why don't more people do it? it's hard to pay for something up front you're going to use over 25 years, but when a company like solar city that i think will have a successful ipo in the next couple of weeks, if they say you don't have to pay any more than what you pay currently for solar and we'll taublg tai care of everything, just give us the real property on your roof. many companies are doing that. >> that's a great example of how most of this is driven by private dollars. dave, i was think...

Always strikes me, you know, gas prices go up and then gas prices will briefly dominate the campaign and then go down. no one is saying -- it's like completely asimilar trickal. if gas prices go up, it's a problem. awesome, i'm doing a victory lap, right? it goes up and it's a problem. when something like sandy he happens, right? it's fascinating to think about it. you lose power. my parents lost powers for days, and you're like, oh, right. everything about my life literally every last detail is dependent on this massive invisible infrastructure. i never think about it that a whole bunch of pe...