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Bernie Sanders: “The idea that carbon emissions cause climate change and all…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Bernie Sander's Podcast Interview with environmentalist Bill McKibben.

Published | Video Starts at 14:47

Over the screaming protest of the fossil. Fuel industry, I want to detour to the fossil fuel industry and say that what I think many of our viewers know that The idea that carbon emissions cause climate change and all of the problems associated with that, this is not a new story. I mean, the industry itself knew this when? In the 50s and the 60s. Bill. They definitely knew it in detail in the 1980s, back when I was writing that book, the Exxon. (14:47–14:57)

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Asserts that the link between carbon emissions and climate change is well-established and not new.

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