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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a boy, My parents sometimes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would take me camping in California.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would camp in the beaches,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the forests, in the deserts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some people think that deserts are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,empty of life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But my parents taught me to see
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the wild life all around us,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hawks, the eagles, the tortoises.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One time when we were staying up at camp,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We found a baby scorpion with its sting around,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I remember thinking how cool it was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that something could be both so cute
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also so dangerous.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After college, I moved to California,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I started working on a number of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,environmental campaigns.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got involved in hoping to save
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the state's last ancient redwood forest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And blocking a proposed radioactive waste
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,repository set for the desert.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And surely after I turned 30,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decided that I wanted to dedicate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a significant amount of life to solving
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,climate change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was worried that global warming would
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,end up destroying many of the natural
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,environments that people had worked
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so hard to protect.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought the technical solution were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pretty straight forward,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,solar panels on every roof,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,electric cars in the drive way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the main obstacles were political.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I hoped to organize a coalition
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the countries biggest labor unions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and biggest environmental groups.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our proposal was for a 300 billion dollar
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in renewables.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the idea was not only we would prevent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,climate change but, we would also create
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,millions of new jobs in a very fast
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing high tech sector.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our efforts really paid off in 2007,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when then presidential candidate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Barack Obama embraced our vision.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And between 2009 and 2015,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the US invested a 150 billion dollars
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in renewables and other kinds of clean tac.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But right away, we started to encounter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some problems.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So first of all, the electricity from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,solar roof tops in some costs about twice
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as much as the electricity from solar farms.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And both solar farms and wind farms
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,require a cover of pretty significant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amount of land with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,solar panels and wind turbines,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also building very big transmission lines
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to bring all that electricity from the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,country side into the city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both of those things were often very
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strongly resisted by local communities,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as by conservation biologists who
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were concerned about the impacts on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wild birds species and other animals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, there was a lot of other people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working on technical solutions at the time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the big challenges of course is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just the intermediacy of solar and wind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They only generate electricity about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,10 - 30 % of the time during most of the year
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, Some of the solutions that were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being proposed were to convert hydroelectric
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dams into gigantic batteries.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea was that when the sun was shining
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the wind was blowing, you would pump
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the water uphill, stored for later and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then when you needed electricity you run
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it over the turbines.