Name: 'Climate Change Is Not a Subjective Thing.' How Does the U.S. Approach to the Environment Look From Abroad?
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Description: We asked 10 people from around the world what they thought of America's approach to the environment. It didn't go well.

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We asked 10 people from around the world what they thought of America's approach to the environment. It didn't go well.

<p>All right, let's see. I'm going to play flint switched from water purchased from the city of Detroit to water pumped from the flint river. The tomatoes were turning black. My water comes out of my faucets smelling like it came out of someone's butt. That's, that's America What? Oh my God. Mm wow. You would never see that in Norway. It's an, Excuse me. That made me angry. It looks like they don't even want to solve anything. Okay. The top selling car by country for Germany Volkswagen golf. Yeah. Every time you go out, you see a fear to pound out UK ford fiesta. That is so obvious. Drugs. Have you seen that truck is huge. Which man is sexier. Trac. Trac lock. Oh God is definitely the guy your mom wants you to marry and this is the guy you're going to run off to and leave him. SUVs were the second largest contributor. So the increase in global carbon emissions, wow truck and suv sales have steadily increased and they're actually making them bigger as well. Take the 2021 Chevy Tahoe for example, it will be almost seven inches bigger Then just the 2020 model, lots of my checks. Human beings were still roughly the same size. I literally cannot think of a reason why cars would have to get bigger. Are they compensating for something? Mhm. Last year in Norway, the sale of electric cars actually surpassed that of fossil fuel cars here in the UK, the government are planning to stop selling all these on petrol cars in a few years in Milan, for example, you cannot get to the center city with the car and they're trying to expand that and to make that area much bigger in the Netherlands. We have more bikes and people uh, C. 02 emissions, per capita India's 1.9 china. You have 8.12 in Germany, it's 8.5 to India and china are always, you know, sort of hung by their eyelashes when it comes to CO two emissions and whatnot. But I wonder how uses faring on that list. Mhm, Wow. I oh my God, I thought I was gonna. So America has more than 15 times of Zimbabwe, but they are the ones that pointing fingers to other countries. I think that's ridiculous. So, in Zimbabwe, where I'm from, plastic bags and plastic food containers have officially been banned. The government here in the UK a few years ago introduced a charge when it comes to using a plastic bag in France. We banned plastic bags a few years ago. I couldn't imagine a world without plastic bags, but then you're just Yeah, Yeah. Mhm. What? You're banning a ban? Someone sit there thinking, you know what, let's ban progress. The fact that Zimbabwe, a developing country is doing way more is frankly just disappointing and embarrassing Germany is the world leader in recycling. If you don't separate your robert in the right wins, they will not be picked up and you will be fine. In Norway. We have this reverse vending machine where you put in plastic balls. Of course we recycle like who doesn't wait? What mountains of trash? I had no idea that they had landfills in America. This would never happen in the Netherlands. Thanks. Yeah, I guess the next generation of americans will have to live with poisoned water and soils or what can you do? Mhm. We used to export a third of our recycling and pay countries like china to deal with it for us. You can't do it yourself. Hold on. America used to sell garbage to other countries. Why didn't we think about this? Whoa. This looks like literally the end of the world. 30 name storms form this season. The National Hurricane Center had to borrow letters from the Greek Alphabet, terrifying. Okay, let's see what this is in the hands of democratic politicians. Climate changes like systemic racism in the sky. This isn't about science. This is really about what controlling almost every aspect of your life. It's not about science, about them trying to control you. That is arguably the most ignorant thing I've ever watched or heard in my whole life. Many of the alarmists on global warming, they got a problem because the science doesn't back them up. I believe the ability to measure with precision the degree of human activities impact on the climate is subject to more debate. Climate change is not a subjective thing. It shouldn't be like a debate. And I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm not a fan of Boris johnson, I don't really care for much that comes out of his mouth. But even he doesn't deny climate change. We have a lot of different types of parties in Norway, but even the far right parties don't deny climate change because if they did, they would be publicly ridiculed. Yeah, it makes me really angry to see all of this America being. This complacent about climate change doesn't only affect them, It affects the whole world. Polar bears that live on Svalbard in Norway are coming to the city center because they are losing their habitats and their food in France too. We have white fires and it's happening more and more often we have storms who flattened entire forests in Zimbabwe, were receiving less rainfall, the typhoon typhoon typhoon in Bengal, They're getting stronger by the day, it's clear that America has more money. Why isn't that extra money being used to protect the environment and to fight climate change? I think this is about setting an example. If America can't get it right, how can we expect the rest of the world to know how to combat climate change? Somebody has to lead the way and set an example. It has got to be you.</p>

'Climate Change Is Not a Subjective Thing.' How Does the U.S. Approach to the Environment Look From Abroad?

‘Climate Change Is Not a Subjective Thing.’ How Does the U.S. Approach to the Environment Look From Abroad?

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<p>Hi, everyone. Meteorologist Anthony Baglione here on this Friday where we're still looking at some relatively warm temperatures into this afternoon. 83 is where we should hit for a high temperature. Nice and quiet for us until we get later on into late this afternoon into this evening where we're gonna watch the potential for some showers and storms coming through. Not a ton of activity for us as we head later on into tonight. There's a look at rain chances though. They go up to about 50% as we head into that evening time frame. So if you have any plans tonight, if you want to go out and get a Friday evening dinner or something like that, it might be a good idea to a, get the indoor table and then b bring along the reindeer just in case tonight. Here's a look at Future cast. So we time this out looking pretty quiet here the next couple of hours that band back to our west, it should start to weaken as it gets closer to us. It may try and restrengthen them as we get into. Like there's four o'clock you can see on Futurecast 56 o'clock or so, some of those storms could be on the stronger side and then it pushes out of here as we get later on into tonight and then we see maybe a stray shower potential still outline for tomorrow morning. Here's a look at our severe potential today. Level one out of five for most of the viewing area. What this is saying is there could be some isolated pockets where we get some stronger storms. It looks like the best chances for that would be west of us. But gusty winds would be our primary threat as we get into this evening. 78 is where we go for our Saturday. A huge temperature swing there into Sunday at 59 scattered showers are gonna be likely though, especially Sunday afternoon into Sunday evening, they do start to taper off though late Sunday night. So for the Tar Heel 10 miler, that's tomorrow morning, we are proud partners of that. We're going to see temperatures in the sixties for the majority of the forecast there. A stray showers possible, but most of the morning is looking just fine for that event. Tomorrow. We head over the next seven. We go from 83 today all the way down to 59 on Sunday. A rebound of 66 on Monday and then a nice week next week attempts in the seventies, even a few upper sixties there Thursday looking pretty quiet after we get some rainfall there to close out our weekend.</p>

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'Climate Change Is Not a Subjective Thing.' How Does the U.S. Approach to the Environment Look From Abroad?

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