CNN’s Bill Weir: ‘A Lot of People Feeling the Pain of This New Administration that Doesn’t Want to Believe in Climate Change’

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WEIR: "These brains that made the problem, maybe by mistake, maybe out of greed, lately, can fix it if everybody is rowing in the same direction. So, ideas on new kinds of energy, new ways to build new kinds of communities, how to pull water out of the air in desert communities when there‘s drought, how to desalinate, there‘s so many cutting edges. There‘s almost like an industrial revolution going on behind the scenes. Now, the politics on top of that lately is squashing it. Scientists, investors, a lot of people feeling the pain of this new administration that doesn‘t want to believe in climate change, is scrubbing even references from it, from federal websites. But I would argue that means, now more than ever, we have to lean across the fence and meet our neighbors, try to understand how resilient our community is, where is our water coming from, what‘s in the air. Turning that anxiety into action can really actually help build more resilient neighborhoods. And we‘re seeing examples from the wildfires, from hurricanes. I look for the survivors, those homes that held up and, like, what‘s their secret? And it‘s accessible to everybody."