I Am Going To Leave Everything On

The Fact Is That We Cannot Drill Our Way To Independence. We Cannot Drill Our Way To Freedom, And We Cannot Drill Our Way To Create Jobs In This Country.

We Allow It To Be Dumped Into This Community Asset, Which Is Our One And Only Atmosphere. So That Has To Change, And There's Really Only One Entity That Can Do That. So We Have Proposed A Cap-and-trade System To Stop That Unlimited Pollution, To Use The Forces Of The Market To Efficiently Allocate Scarce Permits To Allow Co2 Into The Atmosphere. That's Just One Of 500 Things We Need To Do, But It's Probably The Granddaddy Of Them All.

Air Is One We Hold In Common; It Has A Limited Carrying Capacity For Pollutants And That's Being Used Up By Those Who Pollute The Atmosphere. So We Have To Stop That Externality. We Would Never Allow A Utility To Put Their Coal Slag In A Dump Truck And Back It Up To The City Park And Dump It In Unlimited Amounts For Free. But That Is Exactly What We Do With Carbon Dioxide And Methane.

I Reflect Back 35 Years Ago, And Look How Far We Have Come In America With Our Environmental Policy To Improve The Conditions Of Our Air And Water, And We Have Had Some Real Successes.

On Earth, We Still Have A Beautiful Atmosphere That Precisely Maintains A Thermally Driven Climatic System That Shelters, Shields And Sustains Our Natural Treasures.