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Uk and eu, without clarity our companies will invest. and the deal will relate to a very sad brexit read from a climate perspective. the message, mr. speaker, is clear. this deal is not good for jobs, damaging the industry and a threat to our environment and our natural world. it's not a good deal for our country. and future generations will feel the impact. it should be voted down today. by this house. mr. speak, i also totally understand the frustration and f fatigue across the country and this house. but we simply cannot vote for a deal that is even worse than the one the house rejected thr...

Year-over-year. so what you're saying is like this is -- this is the policy playing out. these are people taking a signal from bolcinaro. there's evidence of that? >> yeah, so several brazilian news outlets have went to this region and interviewed these farmers, and they're quoted as saying that they did this to clear land for agra business and inspired by bolcinaro and his rhetoric. >> what are the stakes for folks that are watching this? i think we all grew up hearing about the amazon and deforestation. the time i was in the amazon and i saw a part that was deforested i was like sort of blow...

Sort of homage or a signal that they were hearing his calls to open the amazon for business. they were hearing his calls that the amazon should be raised for profit making, and so they were answering his calls. >> so this -- i mean, the year-over-year data is crazy on this. this is a huge increase year-over-year. so what you're saying is like this is -- this is the policy playing out. these are people taking a signal from bolcinaro. there's evidence of that? >> yeah, so several brazilian news outlets have went to this region and interviewed these farmers, and they're quoted as saying that they...

Contribution to local air pollution. but the interesting thing when you look at the large dairy operations, thousands and thousands of cows in one farm that is characteristic of the dairy industry in the united states in general and in california where i was visiting you know when you concentrate that number of animals in a small space, you really have an issue and a concern around local impacts. however, it can be more efficient as a way of producing milk. so those cows which are creating green house gases through your burps and manuer those cows are producing more milk per cow than you would...

>> yeah. i think the biggest concern i have is the sheer size of the industrial base that is based on our gasoline or diesel instead of fossil fuels. the fact that there's 2 billion vehicles on the road worldwide, there's 100 million new gasoline cars made a year, even if all new cars were electric, it would take 20 years to change out the fleet, and of course, we're very far from all new cars being electric. so that's what gives me a lot of concern about the future from a climate perspective. we're quickly exhausting the carbon capacity of the oceans and atmosphere, and we're not quickly movi...