Why are American cities designed so it's almost impossible not to have a car? Why were 100...
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Why are American cities designed so it's almost impossible not to have a car? Why were 100 railways in cities like New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles bought up and then deliberately destroyed? Why did the electric car get scrapped? Why were we, along with Australia, the only two countries not to sign the original Kyoto climate treaty? Why was an oil company lobbyist allowed to change official government reports on global warming? Why was the same PR firm employed by the tobacco industry to persuade the public that smoking is healthy then employed by the oil industry to convince us there was still doubt about climate change? Alternative energy has been available for 50 years. Why have we barely used it? Why were solar panels taken off the White House? Because, right from the early days of the industry, the oil men and their obscene profits have had an unhealthy influence on the people running our country. And now they are the people running our country. And they're providing the cash too. Oil business isn't just in bed with the government; it is the government.
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Why do the electric cars get scrapped
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Why were we along with Australia
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Why was an oil company lobbyist allowed to change official government reports on global warming
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Why was the same PR firm employed by the tobacco industry to persuade the public that smoking is healthy
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then employed by the oil industry to convince us there was still doubt about climate change
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Alternative energy has been available for 50 years why have we barely used it
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Why were solar panels taking off the white house
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Because right from the early days of the industry
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the oil men and their unseen profit have had an unhealthy influence on the people running our country
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And now they all are the people running our country
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And they're providing the cash too
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Oil business isn't just in bed with the government
Clip duration: 80 seconds
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Timestamp in movie: 00h 25m 03s
Uploaded: 20 November, 2022
Genres: documentary, history, news
Summary: A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.
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