THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT WAS PLANNING ON BANNING A CERTAIN CHEMICAL
PRODUCED BY DOW CHEMICAL, UNTIL ITS CEO MET WITH THE EPA
CHIEF, SCOTT PRUITT.
THE CHEMICAL IN QUESTION HAS BEEN PROVEN IN NUMEROUS STUDIES
DO CAUSE SOME BRAIN DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AMONG CHILDREN.
SO, AS A RESULT, IT A WHILE AGO, THE GOVERNMENT DECIDED THAT
THEY WERE GOING TO STOP ALLOWING HOUSEHOLDS TO USE IT, AND
FOR FARMERS WHO DO USE IT, THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THERE
WAS A PROPER BUFFER BETWEEN THE FARM, AND RESIDENTS, TO
ENSURE EVERYONE'S SAFETY; HOWEVER, SCOTT PRUITT'S
SCHEDULE SHOWS THAT HE MET WITH DOW CEO, FOR
ABOUT HALF AN HOUR MARCH 9,
DURING A CONFERENCE HELD AT A HOUSTON HOTEL.
20 DAYS LATER, PRUITT ANNOUNCED HIS DECISION TO DENY A PETITION
TO BAN DOW'S PESTICIDE FROM BEING SPRAYED ON FOOD.
HERE'S ANOTHER THING, HE WAS ASKED IF HE HAD MET WITH
THE CEO AND HE DENIED IT.
ASTON APRIL WEATHER PRUITT HAD MET WITH DOW EXECUTIVES OR
LOBBYISTS, EPA SPOKESMAN REPLIED, WE HAVE HAD NO MEETINGS
WITH DOW ON THIS TOPIC.
OKAY, SO, ASSOCIATED PRESS DID A GREAT JOB OF DOING A FREEDOM OF
INFORMATION REQUEST HERE TO GET HIS ACTUAL SCHEDULE, TO FIND OUT
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, AND TO FIND OUT THAT THE EPA WAS LYING,
THE HEAD OF THE EPA DID MEET WITH DOW.
THIS CHEMICAL ISN'T CURRENTLY DANGEROUS.
YOU KNOW THAT IT WAS ñ AND I DID NOT NOTICE UNTIL AP DID THIS
STORY ñ IT WAS FIRST DEVELOPED AS A CHEMICAL WEAPON IN WORLD
WAR II.
NOW, NOT THIS EXACT FORM OF IT, OF COURSE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO
DROP THAT ON OUR FOOD, THEY PRESUMABLY ALTERED IT TO
KILL BUGS, SO IT'S A PESTICIDE.
YEAH, TEXT AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
OKAY, SO SO FAR THAT DOES NOT PROVE THAT IT'S DANGEROUS TODAY.
SO, THEN WE TURN TO ALL THE STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN DONE
ON IT, AND THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS SAY THAT THEY
ARE, QUOTE, DEEPLY ALARMED BY PRUITT'S DECISION TO ALLOW
THIS PESTICIDE TO CONTINUE TO BE USED IN THIS COUNTRY.
DEEPLY ALARMED.
THEY SAID, QUOTE, THE RISK TO INFANT AND CHILDREN'S
HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT IS UNAMBIGUOUS.
SO, IT'S NOT AN OPEN QUESTION; WE ARE POSITIVE THAT THIS
HURTS BRAIN DEVELOPMENT IN KIDS.
NOW, I KNOW PEOPLE FLIP OUT SOMETIMES IF THEY SEE A PREGNANT
WOMAN SMOKING IN PUBLIC, OR HAVING A DRINK IN PUBLIC.
MAYBE VERY RIGHTLY SO.
WE USE DO THAT ALL THE TIME BACK IN THE DAY, BUT WE DON'T DO IT
ANYMORE BECAUSE WE THINK IT MIGHT HURT THE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE FETUS; REMEMBER, WE ARE PRO-LIFE.
SO, I'M TELLING YOU, FOR ALL THE REPUBLICANS OUT THERE WHO
ARE PRO-LIFE, DON'T DO THAT!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
WE HAVE TO PROTECT THE FETUS!
THAT'S THE ONLY TIME WE CARE ABOUT HUMANS, WHEN THEY ARE
FETUSES, BUT WHATEVER, THAT'S FINE.
BUT NOW, WE HAVE SCIENTISTS SAYING, UNEQUIVOCABLY, THIS WILL
HURT THEIR BRAIN DEVELOPMENT, AND WE HAVE REPUBLICANS
GOING, YEAH BUT ISN'T SOMEBODY GOING TO MAKE A BUCK OFF OF IT?
THIS IS ACTUALLY THE MOST POPULAR PESTICIDE USED IN
THE WORLD?
IT IS DROPPED ON OUR CITRUS FRUITS, APPLES, CHERRIES
AND OTHER CROPS?
DO KIDS EAT APPLES?
LET ALONE THE APPLESAUCE THAT BABIES EAT, LET ALONE WOMEN
EATING IT WHEN THEY ARE PREGNANT SO WE GET TO THE FETUS.
IT ALSO MAKES ITS WAY TO THE WATERWAYS AS WELL, SO EVEN
IF YOU ARE NOT CONSUMING THESE FRUITS OR YOU ARE EATING
ORGANIC, IT DOESN'T MATTER, IT DOES MAKE ITS WAY INTO OUR
WATER.
IN FACT, SOME FARMWORKERS WERE RECENTLY SICKENED BY THIS,
AND SO THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A PANIC, LIKE ñ
WE ARE SPRAYING IT FROM AIRPLANES.
SO, THEY MADE DECISIONS EARLIER, HEY YOU KNOW WHAT?
WE ARE NOT GOING TO ALLOW DOW CHEMICAL TO USE THIS INSIDE
OF HOMES, BECAUSE WE KNOW IT DOES BRAIN-DAMAGED.
SO YOU CAN'T USE IT IN HOMES.
THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE STOPPED USING IT, WHEN WE
KNOW IT CAUSES BRAIN DAMAGE INSIDE OF SOME OF THESE HOME.
WHAT, YOU SPRAY IT FROM AN AIRPLANE AND HE CAN'T GET
IN SUNDAY'S HOUSE?
IN 2011 THEY WENT, NOT NEAR THE SCHOOLS.
DON'T SPRAY IT FROM A PLANE AND HAND ñ
HAVING LAND ON ALL THE FOOD WE EAT AND OUR KIDS EAT, IF
YOU THINK IT CAUSES BRAIN DAMAGE.
BUT NOW, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MEETS WITH DOW,
AND 20 DAYS LATER THEY DECIDE, BRAIN-DAMAGE SHMAIN-DAMAGE.
THEY DID ONCE MY THING, DOW CHEMICAL, THEY GAVE $20 MILLION
TO DONALD TRUMP'S ELECTION.
SO, WHEN THEY SAY DEREGULATION, THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE
TALKING ABOUT.
I'M CURIOUS WHETHER, LET'S TAKE SCOTT PRUITT AND HIS ILK, IT IS
AN UGLY ILK, BUT, SO, IS HE JUST ñ DOES HE JUST WANT TO HELP OUT
DOW CHEMICAL'S THEY PAID $1 MILLION FOR THIS?
BECAUSE THEY ARE CONSISTENT SUPPORTERS, OR, HOW MUCH OF
IT IS THAT HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN GOVERNMENT REGULATION?
THAT THE MARKET SHOULD DICTATE IT.
IF PEOPLE SHOULD STOP EATING THE FRUIT BECAUSE IT HAS ON IT, AND
IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT, OR DOES HE NOT CARE ABOUT KIDS AT ALL?
I ASSUME HE HAS KIDS.
I SUSPECT HE HAS AN EMOTIONAL REACTION TO A CUTE KID
VIDEO, AND IF HE HAS A CHANCE TO TAKE A KID OUT OF A BURNING
CAR HE PROBABLY DOES, RIGHT?
IF IT'S EASY.
OR, IS HE SO TRAINED OVER THE COURSE OF HIS LIFETIME IN PUBLIC
SERVICE, TO SIMPLY NOT BELIEVE THE SCIENTISTS?
RIGHT?
OR, BECAUSE HE IS PREDISPOSED TO THINK WE OVER REGULATE, THE
LEFT IS FULL OF CRAP; THEREFORE I DON'T BELIEVE THE SCIENCE.
PROBABLY PARTS OF ALL OF IT, BUT I'M CURIOUS WHAT IS IN THE
FRONTAL LOBE OF HIS BRAIN, IF THAT'S EVEN WHERE THE ACTION IS.
LIKE, WHAT IS MOTIVATING THIS ACTION THE MOST?
THIS MIGHT HELP ANSWER MOST ñ THIS MIGHT HELP ANSWER SOME OF
YOUR QUESTION, BUT HE IS ALSO SIMULTANEOUSLY LAUNCHING AN
INITIATIVE TO CRITIQUE CLIMATE SCIENCE.
SO THE VAST MAJORITY OF SCIENTISTS BELIEVE OR HAVE
STUDIED AND FOUND THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, AND THAT IT IS
MAN-MADE, AND IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT OVER 97% OF THEM AGREE, HE
WANTS TO CRITIQUE THE CLIMATE SCIENCE.
REAL QUICK, THIS QUESTION FOR ME STILL WOULD BE ñ
BECAUSE WE WILL NEVER KNOW ñ DOES HE NOT BELIEVE THE
SCIENCE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FIT WITH HIS DEREGULATION
THING, OR DOES HE LEGITIMATELY NOT BELIEVE THE SCIENCE?
I'LL GET TO THAT IN A 2ND.
THE REASON THEY WANT TO DO THE PANEL WHERE THEY CRITIQUE
CLIMATE CHANGE IS, IT'S SUCH A WIN WIN WIN FOR THEM.
AT A BARE MINIMUM, WHAT IT DOES IS DELAY ANY ACTION ON
CLIMATE CHANGE.
WE HAVEN'T DECIDED YET, WE ARE STILL DOING THE OPEN AND
TRANSPARENT PANEL ON WHETHER, CHANGE EXISTS AND IF IT IS
MAN-MADE.
NUMBER TWO, THEY WILL CREATE A FALSE PANEL, A DEBATE.
ARE YOU AGAINST DEBATE?
THIS IS THE OLDEST TRICK IN THE BOOK, THEY DID THIS WITH
TOBACCO.
WE ARE HAVING A DEBATE, DOESN'T CAUSE CANCER, DOES IT NOT
CAUSE CANCER?
97% OF THE SCIENTISTS SAY IT CAUSES CANCER, BUT WE THINK
IT IS 50-50, LET'S TAKE OUR TIME.
MEANWHILE, PEOPLE ARE DYING OF CANCER AND NOBODY IS DOING
ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
AND THE LIST GOES ON.
AND BY THE WAY, AND THEN THEY CAN SAY, THE SCIENCE ON IT
IS MIXED, HENCE WE WON'T TAKE ANY ACTION.
SO, JUST LIKE THE TOBACCO STORY ñ AND THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO
WOULD SAY, SMOKING TOBACCO IS GOOD FOR YOU!
IT WILL MAKE YOU
HEALTHIER!
THEY PUT OUT ALL THIS JUNK.
DID THOSE PEOPLE GENUINELY BELIEVE THAT?
I DON'T MEAN TO BE GLIB, BUT I DON'T CARE.
IF YOU PAY PEOPLE ENOUGH MONEY, THEY WILL SAY ANYTHING, AND
IF YOU PAY THEM ENOUGH, THEY MIGHT EVEN BELIEVE IT.
OR, THEY ARE HONEST PEOPLE, BUT IN A COUNTRY OF 390
MILLION PEOPLE, YOU CAN FIND SHMUCKS YOU BELIEVE
ANYTHING, AND THEN FINANCE THEM.
EITHER ONE A BAD GUY WHO WILL TELL YOU THAT THERE IS A SUCH
THING AS, CHANGE, OR THAT THIS PESTICIDE DOESN'T CAUSED DEVELOP
MENTAL ISSUES IN BRAINS.
YOU CAN FIND PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT, IT'S A GIANT COUNTRY, YOU
CAN FIND PEOPLE WHO WILL BELIEVE IN ANY CONSPIRACY THEORY, OR
YOU CAN FIND BAD GUYS WHO WILL BE LIKE, I DON'T CARE, OKAY?
WHERE'S THE MONEY?
THE MONEY GETS ME AND MY FRIENDS ELECTED, GETS ME POWER,
WHERE IS IT?
IT'S OVER THERE?
WHAT DO YOU NEED ME TO SAY?
THAT'S DECIDES?
THE SCIENTISTS ARE WRONG.
SO, LOOKING INTO SCOTT PRUITT'S MIND AS TO WHETHER HE'S
IGNORANT OR EVIL, IS NOT IMPORTANT.
WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS, FIXING THE SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION THAT
LEADS TO THESE DECISIONS, OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
THE ONE DOWNSIDE TO THE PANEL FOR THEM, MIGHT BE ñ
THIS BLUE-RIBBON PANEL, WHATEVER THEY CALL IT?
RED TEAM, BLUE TEAM.
IS THAT THE KOCH BROTHERS DID THAT, IN 2012, OR 2013, WITH
THE SAME ñ AND THEIR PANEL CAME BACK AND WAS LIKE, YEAH,
MAN-MADE, I'M CONVINCED.
IT'S ON EQUIVOCAL.
AND LUCKILY THEN, THE KOCH BROTHERS SWITCHED THEIR
MIND AND DECIDED THAT THEY WERE ñ BECAUSE THEY GENUINELY, ALWAYS
TALK ABOUT HOW GENUINELY THEY JUST WANT TO HELP THE COUNTRY.
THEY ARE BELIEVERS IN FREEDOM.
THEY HAPPEN TO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY FROM THE FOSSIL FUEL
INDUSTRY, AND SHOCKINGLY ENOUGH, THEIR OWN PANEL, WHEN THEY SAID
IT IS MAN-MADE AND YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING, THEY WERE LIKE, YEAH
GO AHEAD AND PISS OFF.
WE STILL HAVE THE SAME EXACT OPINION, WHICH HAPPENS TO
HELP OUR BOTTOM LINE, OH WELL.
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