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And even other parts of the country like Alaska, where they can't use solar power and one third of the jobs are fossil fuel related.
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I think there are, I mean, I haven't done a ton of research on the subject, but from what I have read and what I have seen, there are a lot of places like in coal country, for example, where people are transitioning into tech jobs and they're retraining professionals who have jobs in environmentally problematic fields into doing things that have less of a carbon footprint.
It's really just big businesses that are really the huge downfall to what's happening in the earth.
I also don't think that the economy is the most important thing.
We need a planet to have an economy.
So if the economy takes a hit in the short term to save the planet in the long term, I don't have a problem with that.
This iPhone made in China, like the dictatorship of slave labor, and the most, literally the biggest contributor to pollution in the entire world, them in India.
But we'll use their phones to take our pictures to show them what we're doing.
When you look at Western nations combined, we're like less than, we're literally less than like 5% of the pollution, but these countries that are roaming free, they are not getting the pressure put on them and they're the contributing the most.
So how do we actually change it to focus our attention on those who are contributing the most?
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We lead by example.
I have a hybrid and we set standards and that other people will want to follow.
Do you think that China doesn't get pressure because they own so much of our industry?
Meaning, like if you do know recently with the LeBron James and the NBA scandal, right, that they have so much investment monetarily that Americans are selling out for their own country and for what's right just to make money and they're basically fine condemning the Trump administration, but they're not even condemning a true dictatorship in communism, which is just wrecking and ruining the entire planet.
But do you feel like that's because China's been strategic in actually getting their hand in industry and Americans are more greedy than they really do care about the country?
Sometimes at climate marches people see let's say shots of these ladies right here or there's been like some pretty I would say artistic behavior at other at other marches.
Oh thank you.
There's been some artistic marches like things.
People do like dance moves and there's like a lot of different kinds of videos that come up at climate marches and people go, how is that going to help climate change?
So then how does this help actually climate change?
It's like a metaphysical it's a metaphysical infiltration into the subconscious rather than a direct obtrusive just here I am and that's sort of the missing link that gives people that elevated awareness.
If the issue is that not enough people are on board do you think pairing this movement with an anti-capitalist notion which I see a lot of signs about when most Americans agree that capitalism is the best solution for the country or there's a lot of anti-Trump stuff when half the country voted for him.
So by pairing political niche ideas in with a scientific endeavor doing that isolates half the country who would think this isn't really a climate change march this is like you get what I'm saying like the signs it says like it's a lot of like against Trump stuff.
Don't you think that would scare away people like because they would go well I don't want to go to an anti-Trump march or I don't want to go to an anti-capitalism march.
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But do you understand the problem is these things are all connected.
I honestly don't agree with putting other political movements into a protest that's mainly about climate change.
You can't put them in their little separate niches and I think more and more people are beginning to realize this.
I feel like yes Trump is part of the part of the reason for climate change but there are also many other leaders that contribute to it.
I mean I know people who one time would not bother about going to an anti-racist march who are now starting to think maybe well I see black and brown people who are most impacted at this and I'm being impacted because my house is burned down.
So you know with the fires that are going on here you start to put tune together.
Many supporters of Trump's are impacted now because of the tornadoes happening in Oklahoma and all these places including places that didn't used to have tornadoes and the floods.
They once were climate deniers.
They voted for Trump.
Someone that must be beginning to wonder.
This Trump Pence movement is, I don't think it actually helps the actual full climate change movement.
Alright, so we brought the children to the front of the march, and while there's mostly adults in the back, and we're beginning to push and march into the we're going to march into the city hall, and so we push the kids up so that it appears to be the children's march specifically.
I'm surprised that there's not more kids out here.
There's a lot of adults, and it's kind of mixed, but they push the kids to the front for optics.
What do you think about that?
unidentified
I think you're probably looking to make a conspiracy out of something that's a little more naive than that.
I'm surprised more people didn't come as Greta, but I actually call myself, I'm calling myself Thretta, because I originally said Greta, then I realized I had a beard.
Be disrespectful to say I look like her, so I'm Threta.
I'm inspired.
I'm the male, the male transgender inspired version of Greta Thunberg.
