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Brian Schweitzer Talks Climate Change and Conservation
Posted: January 18, 2014 http://schweitzer45.com/
Brian Schweitzer discussed climate change in Montana with research scientist Dr. Heidi Cullen in November 2008. He talks about the changes he’s witnessed in the snowpack, the effects on rivers and trout fishing, energy conservation, and clean energy sources. One of Schweitzer’s comments:
The most important thing we can do is to use less energy. As I’ve said before, the most important barrel of oil is the one we don’t use. And so that’s why in Montana we have 20 x 10, which is very aggressive. The state of Montana and all of our functions, including our universities, will decrease our energy consumption 20% by 2010. We’re also moving rapidly towards the most aggressive CAFE standards in America – 32mpg in the average fleet of all of the cars the state of Montana is driving….
What I’d like to do is make conservation cool, make green cool, so that when you go to cocktail parties across this country, no matter how rich you are, the conversation comes up, “How much did you decrease your energy consumption last month and the year before?” That would be kind of cool as opposed to, “How big is my house?” and “How big a jet do I fly?”
What I’d like to do is make conservation cool, make green cool, so that when you go to cocktail parties across this country, no matter how rich you are, the conversation comes up, “How much did you decrease your energy consumption last month and the year before?” That would be kind of cool as opposed to, “How big is my house?” and “How big a jet do I fly?”
NB: For fans 0f Jag, the governor’s Border Collie, keep an eye out for him wandering through the frame at the 3-minute mark.
Uploaded on Nov 14, 2008
Brian Schweitzer on KCRW’s “Left, Right, & Center”
Governor Schweitzer was a guest panelist on the KCRW radio show “Left, Right, & Center” on January 10th. A Dismal Jobs Report and the Christie Bridge-gate
Robert Scheer, Brian Schweitzer, Matt Miller, Rich Lowry
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/lr/lr140110a_dismal_jobs_report
In the half-hour segment Schweitzer offered his thoughts on the latest job report, Chris Christie, Robert Gates’ memoir, money in politics, and the NSA.
Great comment from Schweitzer on why we should be investing in domestic infrastructure rather than war in Afghanistan.
We’ve spent the last twelve years at perpetual war. The nice thing about investing in infrastructure in our own country, whether it’s in education, or fibre optic cable, or new transmission lines, or a new energy system is that you create jobs. And those jobs will create two, and three, and four more jobs. When you get a job building a bomb, you take the bomb over and you blow it up in Afghanistan. And then you rebuild the roads so you can blow it up again. You don’t get any response from those investments.
And on how a president should think about a war:
If you’ve got a president that can’t sleep nights because he’s not sure about a war, that’s the president that I want. I don’t want a president that’s absolutely sure that we’re dying in the right cause on the right moment. You’ve got to ask that question every day when you get up: Is it worth another child of another mother dying in this war.
On money in politics:
If our members of congress in Washington D.C. wore uniforms like NASCAR people, they’d have the same sponsors: insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, military-industrial complex, and big energy.
Michael Moore Praises Schweitzer on Healthcare
Michael’s Moore’s New York Times opinion piece “The Obamacare We Deserve”, which critiques the Affordable Care Act, highlights Schweitzer’s healthcare accomplishments in Montana:
Montana came up with another creative solution. Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat who just completed two terms, set up several health clinics to treat state workers, with no co-pays and no deductibles. The doctors there are salaried employees of the state of Montana; their only goal is their patients’ health. (If this sounds too much like big government to you, you might like to know that Google, Cisco and Pepsi do exactly the same.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Schweitzer
Run Brian Run!
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