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The good news for china and the world is that beijing seems to be listening. china has promised to spend $280 billion cleaning up its air. looks at this chart from the international energy agency. china's carbon emissions per unit of gdp have dropped by half since the 1990s. massive investments in wind and solar energy mean that china hopes to get 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. the next step is to be open and transparent about how it is progressing on these fronts. but this is a big first move and it should send a signal to other developing countries to stop denying their po...

A person of interest in an arson investigation. police say when a yuma city prostitute's house went up in flames last month, they investigated the men in her life. among them a suitor county da who police say took an unusual interest in the case, even showing up at the scene the very next day. the da is denying any role in the arson. crews say they are making progress fighting wildfire near yosemite national park but admit a stubborn one. fire officials say they expect a full containment in two to three weeks and it will burn for much longer than that. that's because of unusually long interv...

>> do you know when he wrote that? i am sure you are aware he said the planet does not need humans, the human population i behind the pollution problems of the world and you must know this and you must do something about this. that never came up? >>guest: no. no. >>neil: did he know anyone at discovery communications? >> i don't believe that anyone, i'm concerned that nobody in the family has been involved in his political things he is doing. like i said, i know that, my wife's family is very small and i can speak and i have known all

Terrible pollution problems in the 70s that has gotten better now. >> it has gotten better and the environmentalists should celebrate that of course they are too busy dooming and glooming about global warming. every movement starts out i'd deal list tick then becomes a corporation and a racket. -- >> epa brought in by nixon. most of the media approach this secular religion, worship the earth. we did well in my father's generation with conservation. . you had the isaac walter league. even the media say don't throw those things on the ground keep the water supply clean. all of that worked out fi...

A kid, we had terrible pollution problems in the '70s and it's gotten a lot better nowments right, it has gotten better and environmentalists should celebrate that. they're too busy dooming and glooming to worry about that and the coin phrase of true believer says every movement starts out idealistic and-- >> this position the cabinet level of epa brought in by richard nixon of all things. >> jon: how have you seen this change. >> they're is secular religion, to worship the earth. we did quite well in my father's generation with conservationism. and say don't throw those on the ground and keep...