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Phil Weiser: “There's all this forest where you've got dying trees right…”

Featuring: Phil Weiser, Democratic | Attorney General of Colorado

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Published | Video Starts at 40:49

And the way we can avoid these rising home insurance premiums is to take on the risk to wildfires. And right now in Colorado, we're not doing that well enough. There's all this forest where you've got dying trees right now. And those are not only a risk to wildfires, they're a risk from a climate perspective. Because when you have forests go up in smoke, it emits carbon. I want to lean in and we're going to plan a Colorado corps calling young people to service. (40:49–40:59)

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Asserts that dying trees in Colorado forests pose a risk to wildfires and climate.

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