The Fossil Fuel Industry Needs to Pay for Its Sins

but first the fossil fuel industry needs to paid for it's sins on sunday and out of control wildfire in arizona claimed the lives of nineteen members of the granite mountain hotshots an elite wild fire fighting team it's not the firefighters died as they tried to protect themselves from the flames they were using these heat resistant shields east these heat there is a cold he tents an illegal reflected on the outside need of but they're fairly light waiting to get a real intense fire did just do you know it just cookson no rolled up into four let's terrible thing and the massive wildfire near the town of yarnell arizona has now burned nearly eighty five hundred acres and as of this morning it was a zero percent containment this is a mind-boggling tragedy the death of the nineteen firefighters the second deadliest single event for firefighter since nine eleven and when those brave firefighters are laid to rest later this week their funeral costs are most likely to be paid for by their family members and that should not be the case because it was the fossil fuel industry in this country to kill these men and the fossil fuel industry should be responsible for paying for their funerals these deaths are just the latest example of the overwhelmingly negative extern alleghenies associated with america's addiction toxic and thirty five so feels a negative or exter nal it is a fancy economic speak it's a cost of born by all of us that was produced by a private entity in and dumped on us external lies to from that business onto us externalities reduce the cost of business for corporations which in turn increases their products the possibilities to do anything they can to protect these externalities 'cause it means that they can dumped their trash in the former carbon dioxide on you and me into are air into are atmosphere into our world and our oceans without they're having to pay a dime for it and profiting off of extern alan eases it frankly at the core of the business model for many corporations in america special as the fossil fuel industry thirty e he'd be for business coalition put together a port on the top one hundred global environmental externalities nicer there costner global economy about four-and-a-half four point seven trillion nine dollars the year that includes the economic costs of greenhouse gas emissions the loss of natural resources the loss of nature based services such as carbon storage by forests climate change an air pollution related costs health costs and the primary production and processing sectors analyze their poor like the fossil fuel industry are estimated to have extern ality expenses for which you and i pay totaling seven point three trillion this is how much they scam in from s the fossil fuel industry this is thirteen percent of global economic output back into those nine limit the number you know there look at those numbers seven point three really in dollars the u_n_ are paying out of our pocket that's just bottom-line money for the fossil fuel industry for the call natural gas and oil companies when it comes to file so fuel industry driven climate change one of the biggest netted externalities that you and i have to cope with and pay for is this drastic increase extreme weather trip brings us back to these dead firefighters korea national oceanic and atmospheric administration two thousand eleven two dozen twelve they were twenty five pt floods droughts storms he weighs wildfires that h cost at least a billion dollars and eleven hundred fatalities and a hundred and eighty eight louis and dollars in collective damages at hundred eighty eight billion dollars was not paid for by the fossil fuel industry who caused it was paid for by you and me and the way it stands right now the fossil fuel industry has no incentive to change its way there's no incentive to invest in clearing your technology no incentive to pollute less and no incentive to clear curb global warming heartwarming but we can change that here's why they have no incentive the foss of fuel industry is the only industry in america that does not pay a penny to dump the trash the waste that they produce primarily carbon dioxide is driving climate change and helping increase the number superstars he weighs and deadly wildfires it's time to stop all of this damage to our plan it's time to stop the fossil fuel industry from killing people you know it's time for our intervention and when you do it costs on the fossil fuel industries wastes material how do you do that carbon tax as soon as we have a carbon tax all of the clean and green energy alternatives to fossil fuels becoming economically viable and fossil fuels become more expensive than anything else if the exxon's in bps in coke industries the world were forced to pay for the emissions that they put out through carbon tax they have more of an incentive now to pollute the environment so here it is real simply time to stop sweating the fossil fuel industry openly nakedly probably pollute our error i got a bad people onto the fossil fuel industry on this program of people funded but scientists funded by the frost arial carbon dioxide is football plants they made marla so our call firepower players freemen plants they proudly polluter air the damage air ecosystems are destroying our environment and what we what she does like that t-shirt you know my parents went to france all i got was a stupid t-shirt well you know all we have these stupid superstore arms help ailments chart house isn't dead fireman so if you want to do something about this call your lawmakers in washington d_c_ goat call congress dot org their phone numbers there toll-free numbers the regular number and tell 'em to just say no to paraphrase nancy reagan just say no to fossil fuel subsidies and i'm not saying yes to a carbon tax pretty straight forward stuff it's amazing 'cause the international energy agency just released this report saying that you know by five years from now just five years from now a quarter of all the energy produced in the world is going to be from solar in windsor and biomass and geothermal and and uh... hydro a quarter he will exceed natural gas is the fastest growing piece of the energy sector if we put a carbon tax in a place tomorrow that five-year window would become a two year when there were a one-year window that's how fast people change unni walk through any office building in american look up at the lights to still sealed incandescent bulbs dicey fluorescents white because they are less expensive it burn longer they consume less electricity less expensive many places are going to allie dietz there even less expensive they're just starting to make that transition actually to wear there radically less expensive mary flashlight villages ellie people rechargeable flashlight so you know it's time for us to simply say sorry carbon industry but you don't get to dump you trashing our air anymore without pain the garbage collectors would like the fee in over a limited dump let's at least be paid for it so let's put a tax on car when i hear you start out while you start out of thirty hours of time gradually went up to autumn twenty hours ton over a five-year period and you will see the world disorder or so fast it'll make your head spin