Oil Should Stay in the Ground: Robert Redford on Republican Climate Change Deniers and Keystone XL
January 29, 2015
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as posted by the channelAs we broadcast from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, we spend the hour with its founder Robert Redford, the Oscarwinning director, actor and longtime environmentalist. Our conversation begins with last week’s vote by nearly half of the Senate to refuse to formally acknowledge the existence of manmade climate change. “I think the deniers of climate change are probably the people who are afraid of change. They don't want to see change,” Redford says. “Too many in Congress are pushing us back into the 1950s.” He also responds to the attempt by the new Republican majority in Congress to approve construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. “I had a lot of experience with oil,” he says noting that he once worked in the oil fields. “I think it should stay in the ground. We're so close to polluting the planet beyond anything sustainable.”
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