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That same law applies to exxon. what exxon has done to this country, to this planet, is far worse than anything that bp did by its oil spill, it s purposeful, it s deliberate, it s a deliberate campaign of deception to that s leading us literally to an apocalypse. this is how donald trump described his position on climate change earlier this week. i m still open minded. nobody really knows. i ve look. i m somebody that gets it and nobody really knows. it s not something that s so hard and fast. i do know this other countries are eating our lunch. so how do you unpack that. is he open minded or is he a climate change skeptic? well, you know i think the last statement he made is just is a it s a it s kind of a canard because the ....
of cut out the middleman and are handing the country right over to the oil industry. when president bush came in, i think 16 of his top 21 officials were from the oil industry and they helped get us into the iraq war and helped sponsor a very bellicose pugnacious foreign policy that was really intended to advance the mercantile interest of american corporations rather than advancing the traditional ideals and the highest ideals of our country and this these appointments are people who have throughout their careers have served the oil industry and not particularly served america very well. and on that note, your organization, water keeper, pushing the government to end all its contracts with exxonmobil but under rex tillerson exxon acknowledges climate change is real, he supports the paris agreement. ....
It s purposeful and deliberate. it s a deliberate campaign of deception that s leading us literally to an apocalypse. i want you to listen this. this is how trump described his position on climate change. i m still open minded. nobody really knows. look, i m somebody that gets it. and nobody really knows. it s not something that s so hard and fast. i do know this. other countries are eating our lunch. so how do you unpack that? is he open minded or a climate change skeptic? well, i think the last statement he made is kind of a canard. the best thing we can do, all the things we need to do, don, so avert catastrophic climate change are the same things we need to do to safeguard our ....
Do you think he could actually be an ally in the trump administration because he s not a climate change denier? i don t you know, rex tillerson is better than his predecessor, rex tillerson came in in 2006 and ended a lot of the connections, the support that exxon was giving to these climate denier groups but they re continuing to pave climate denier groups even today and they ve had a 50-year propaganda campaign. exxonmobil has known, we now know since the late 1970s that global warming was going to raise the temperature six degrees celsius by the end of the century. and the last time it was that high, don, there were crocodiles at the north pole. this is the end of the planet and they knew it, they had 16,000 scientists and they knew more about the fate of the carbon atom than any company or any government institution in the world. it was very clear to them and for the first few years they were honest about it. ....
trump administration. environmentalists are not exactly cheering some of the president-elect s cabinet picks, but ivanka trump has said she wants to make climate change one of her top issues. let s discuss with robert f. kennedy, jr., president of water keeper alliance, of the water keeper alliance. i want to ask you about a suit that you have against exxon but let me start with this. donald trump s picks for the for state, the epa, energy, the department of interior, let s say who they are. this is rex tillerson, he runs exxonmobil, scott pruitt will lead the epa, rick perry who promised to eliminate the energy department the boss there and his choice for interior secretary, ryan zinke has a 3% environmental record from the league of conservation voters. when you look at all these choices, mr. kennedy, what are your thoughts? environmentalists are not happy with those choices. you know, it feels like we kind ....