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Which sounds more urgent: “global warming” or “pollution blanket overheating planet”? In this actionable talk, communications strategist John Marshall explains why we need to rethink how we talk about climate change — and offers small but mighty language adjustments to get people to more intuitively understand and care about this existential threat.
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Transcriber:
I often have this strange thought
that aliens come down to Earth
to check us out.
They beam up a hundred scientists
and they ask them,
“What’s going on on your planet?”
And the aliens quickly learn something:
that all of these scientists
have concluded
that pollution from our industrial
activity is irreversibly heating the earth
in a way that will make it very hard
for us to live here safely.
Then they do the same thing,
but this time they beam up
another 100 people,
and they’re not scientists,
they’re regular people like us.
They could count on one hand
how many of those people
would even mention climate change.
Two or three dozen of them
may never have even heard the term.
And among the Americans in the group,
only one in four would be highly
concerned about the issue.
The aliens, I think, would be shocked.
“Why don’t people know
what’s happening or how bad it is?
Someone should tell them!”
The absurdity of the situation
is so clear and so real.
What we have here
is a failure to communicate.
My job is to educate people
about climate change.
So I look at the concepts, the messages,
the images and the terms,
and I test them with millions of people.
I’d like to tell you what I’m learning.
For so many people,
climate change seems abstract,
distant, too big to imagine.
The words we often use to describe it —
emissions, CO2, methane,
net zero, anthropogenic —
are, simply put, confusing.
Not that many people wake up
in the morning and say,
“It’s a great day
for some decarbonisation.”
These words become obstacles
rather than gateways to understanding,
let alone caring.
The way to fix this failure to communicate
is to start not by talking
about the issue,
but to start with people,
to think first about individuals,
the people who have millions
of other things on their mind,
a million worries and challenges
and hopes and aspirations.
Climate change is one of the biggest
threats humanity has ever faced,
and we won’t face it,
not to the degree that’s necessary,
if people don’t care.
The people-first approach
to climate communications
demands three simple things.
The first one is plain,
obvious and universal language.
One thing for sure
people don’t readily get —
carbon emissions, net zero —
are most terms that can be found
in a science book.
And frankly, to the uninitiated,
much of it doesn’t really sound that bad.
“Two degrees warmer in 50 years,”
or it sounds so bad, you can’t even
get your head around it —
“1.2 trillion tons of ice.”
Confusion and hopelessness
are the enemies of understanding.
A good test for language is, what pops
into your head when you hear it.
If you hear a term like “climate change,”
what pops into your head?
Well, for most people,
the answer is “not much.”
The language isn’t vivid.
What we need is vivid language
that everyone gets.
It’s remarkable how many people
actually confuse climate change
with the ozone hole.
More than four in 10 Americans
think the ozone hole
actually causes global warming.
And so many of them remember
and understand
so much about ozone depletion.
Why is that?
Because it’s a hole, it’s a layer.
People can see it,
imagine it, relate to it.
It uses simple metaphor
that’s an instant get.
Here’s a little story
that gets a similar “aha”
for climate change.
Humans have been on Earth
for about 300,000 years,
but we’ve only started polluting like this
in about the last 60.
Our pollution stays in the air
for thousands of years,
creating a thickening blanket
that traps heat in the atmosphere.
That heat causes stronger hurricanes,
bigger fires, more frequent floods
and the extinction
of thousands of species.
But there’s good news.
To stop the pollution blanket,
we just have to stop polluting.
This “pollution blanket” framing
is one of the most effective we’ve tested
at getting people to understand the issue.
It’s visual, it’s vivid,
and when people hear the message,
they become significantly more engaged.
They get it.
There are so many other
regular speak words and concepts
that stick with people.
Instead of “warming,”
try “overheating.”
Instead of “climate,”
talk about “extreme weather.”
When mentioning “clean energy,”
you might say “cheap energy” as well,
as it’s rapidly becoming cheap.
The word “irreversible”
really gets people’s attention,
as the pollution certainly is.
And if you absolutely must talk
about temperature increases
and you live in the US,
heck, use Fahrenheit for goodness sake.
It doubles the severity.
“Nine degrees during your kid’s lifetime”
sounds pretty serious.
“One point five degrees Celsius to meet
the Paris Accord” is pretty ignorable.
This is about going beyond
arcane policy language
into language that we all intuitively get.
That’s the first step: understanding.
But understanding
without relevance is rudderless.
So the second key then
is to make climate feel like something
that matters to you,
to your life, individually and personally.
Nobody has an epiphany
about policy proposals.
Awakenings are personal.
They have local relevance.
They’re about your life and your concerns.
As an example, we presented two messages
to a few thousand people in Florida.
One asked them “to demand that we get
to zero emissions to stop climate change.”
Another simply said, “Stop my flooding.”
The latter message was over four times
more effective in getting their attention.
Local flooding was so much more
relevant than global warming.
What’s needed isn’t better
policy descriptions,
but rather deeper,
more personal connections.
Here’s another example.
We work with a team of remarkable
women climate scientists
to help elevate their voice
as messengers.
They’ve dedicated their careers
to studying the issue,
developing complex computational models
to understand the Arctic processes,
and climbing into planes
to measure nitrogen in wildfire smoke.
They could tell you everything
you need to know about the science,
but what we asked them about
was why they study it.
And they told us about their
daughters and their sons,
about wanting to keep the world
safe and healthy and vibrant
for their children.
And when we shared these personal
stories with other parents,
they started to care far more deeply
about climate change
than they did from staring at charts
of global temperatures.
People see a parent
who’s dedicated their life
to creating a better world
for their child.
Every parent can relate to that.
It matters to me.
The right messages are those that connect
climate change to personal identity.
Our life — not future lives,
not the world — our community,
not necessarily
environmentalism — our values,
and not just children — our child.
Finally, the third key
to the climate communications puzzle
to show that climate change
is an issue for people like me:
Humans are social animals,
and that’s true for how
we form our beliefs, too.
You can present the exact same
message to many people,
but when it comes from someone
with a similar accent or background,
we see double-digit increases
in message effectiveness.
Here’s an unexpected messenger
who really lands the point.
A guy we call Florida man.
He’s a resident of North Florida
who got into a little trouble with the law
after taking an alligator
into a convenience store
when he was on a beer run.
Not exactly the most obvious
climate change messenger
yet when he appeared in an internet ad
describing in his own way
how he’s worried about his way of life,
it significantly increased climate concern
among young conservative men in Florida.
Most people don’t see themselves
as “environmentalists” per se,
and they see climate change
as an “environmentalist issue.”
But messages that break away
from those narrow identity markers
make the issue relatable.
They give people a reason to care.
So the core idea is that instead
of explaining the issue at people,
it’s essential to bring
people into the issue,
so that they say, “I get it.
It matters to me.
It matters to people like me.”
Then and only then
are we primed to take action.
If the intelligent aliens in my story
were also intelligent at communications,
they would say to us,
“Hey, Earthlings, pay attention,
you’re building up a massive blanket
of pollution that’s overheating your home.
And it’s going to hurt the people
and the things that you love.
You did this and you can fix it.”
We simply have to let our fellow eight
billion inhabitants of our home know
what’s happening.
We have no choice.
And when we do,
we’ll achieve the public will necessary
to take on this colossal
but winnable fight for our future.
Thank you.
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Tychoxi
May 4, 2021 at 8:31 pm
Strategy 1: eat the rich
Strategy 2: destroy capitalism
Strategy 3: bully the libs
Wolfie Smith
May 4, 2021 at 8:39 pm
Human beings pollute the atmosphere.
The planet regulates it’s own biosphere through means we do not yet fully understand.
Stop the pollution that kills millions through respiratory disease.
Leave the planet to look after itself. It has for Billions of Years.
kicka55
May 4, 2021 at 8:41 pm
The problem with climate change communication is totally different. The problem is people don’t get it told by scientists, they get it told by business people who want to sell their products. Climate change yadayada.. here buy my electric car to fix it. Climate change became a business model and that’s why nobody takes it seriously. People who used to sell snake oil now sell “sustainable” products for double the price.
Greg Bors
May 4, 2021 at 8:56 pm
The best thing for the health of the Earth’s ecosystem would be for the human race to quietly go extinct
Just someone Else
May 4, 2021 at 9:07 pm
Nice talk!
CHRIS INVICTUS
May 4, 2021 at 9:29 pm
Climate change exist since 4 ever. Why should industrie the reason 4 it. Thats ilogical.
SurfByShootin
May 4, 2021 at 9:56 pm
Strange masonic hand gesture in thumbnail
Bru Avanza
May 4, 2021 at 10:12 pm
Great talk!
Daniel Reher
May 4, 2021 at 10:31 pm
While the topic interests me. But his annoying voice made me tune it out.
TS
May 4, 2021 at 10:33 pm
See 2010 Ted Talks CO2 depopulation math with Bill Gates
mac macd
May 4, 2021 at 10:33 pm
How about – don’t be a sheep. Have you even asked yourself today, what am I? Where am I? Everything you believe comes from the media – wake uo
Rooket6
May 5, 2021 at 1:13 am
I agree, don’t be a sheep. Repeat the experiements documented yourself.
Post the video on YouTube and I’ll give you a like.
Here’s a good experiment: get two airtight boxes with a thermometer in each and a vacuum and some carbon dioxide. Use the vacuum to dispell some air in one of the boxes. Replace the air with carbon. Put both boxes in the sun for a day or maybe a few. Read the temperatures and tell me which is hotter.
Andy Scallion
May 4, 2021 at 10:34 pm
The one thing you can’t agree against is an idea that’s invisible. Ideas from real scientists on both sides of global warming issues. Who do you Believe? I mean if you look at the data the data from floods and hurricanes have been there for years many years. Even with less population.
Lancefer66
May 4, 2021 at 10:53 pm
The failure to communicate is quite evident. CNN is on record stating that the COVID scare tactics’ are no longer working and the next big scare will be climate change (for the 30th time in the last half century).
Bobby Brooks
May 4, 2021 at 10:59 pm
Full blown shill
CK Gaming
May 4, 2021 at 11:18 pm
One volcano exploding is the equivalent of 10 years of USA emissions. So who is the one using actual science? I BELIEVE climate change is important but we change it by development and innovation. Everything needs energy, even electric cars. The electricity comes from somewhere. We need to focus on expanding our ideas not trying to eliminate something that is literally microscopic in the eyes of global warming.
John Smith
May 4, 2021 at 11:45 pm
Nah I’m sticking with fossil fuels, thanks
Octopus Prime
May 4, 2021 at 11:46 pm
Dinosaurs lived on a lot hotter planet… just saying.
Cement / concrete production creates most of the CO2.
China pollutes the most.
Water vapor is the greatest contributor to holding heat in the atmosphere.
みーゆーパパ
May 5, 2021 at 12:04 am
Thanks a lot! Not for world, but for our child. its common words in all countries.
DigitalXrisXross
May 5, 2021 at 12:09 am
death destruction decay
goodtimes.
Pug Nacious
May 5, 2021 at 12:09 am
I’m old enought to remember being scared to death by my teachers with Time magazine and the coming Ice Age …. the Global warming … now climate change … Its always been cyclical. It’s all a money grab. Shameful that FEAR must be used to get funding. Just look up where all of the temperature monitoring was installed to get the data. Look up the “hockeystick.” I’m all for taking care of mother earth. But she is pretty resilient. Next thing we know Fear mongering will cause people to want experimental Mrna genetic modification shots! Data points are real, interpretation can be biased. Look up the 97% consensus … its not true.
Justin Hopkins
May 5, 2021 at 12:32 am
It’s effectively impossible to talk about climate change when the anti-intellectual right demonizes experts in favor of scientifically illiterate quacks and conspiracy theorists.
Remy Lebeau
May 5, 2021 at 12:33 am
You should start with the truth instead of your lies and fearmongering.
Russ B
May 5, 2021 at 1:01 am
Humans emit roughly 6 Gts of CO2 whereas forests sequester around 100 Gts. Man has reduced forests by 50% over the last 100 years so by my calculation we have added roughly 50Gts extra CO2 per year to the atmosphere. Besides that, the reality is the biggest cause of CO2 is having children. The “science” says that having a child results in much more CO2 than driving cars, burning fossil fuels, etc. The fact is that no matter what we do with regards to cutting our emissions, this will be offset by population growth.
jmuld1
May 5, 2021 at 3:06 am
No evidence just more opinion.
Gareth Michell
May 5, 2021 at 9:22 am
His point is not provide evidence. The evidence is already there. His point is to provide better ways to convince people to bother taking an interest in the evidence.
Kloko Loko
May 5, 2021 at 3:28 am
The reason why we have so much misinformation about climate is because fossil fuel campaign to spread doubt into climate science.
There is no doubt in is it this warming man made.
This thing is a undeniable solid fact like is it earth round or is it gravity real.
Those that want to undermine climate science saw doubt on this thing and we all know why, because fossil fuel money.
Gypsy Nipsy
May 5, 2021 at 3:32 am
The US has gone above and beyond the efforts to have the cleanest air.
Pete Marvin
May 5, 2021 at 8:01 am
This is a joke, right?
Raul C.
May 5, 2021 at 3:37 am
One world… Okay, two words:
Bull S…
RL Playz
May 5, 2021 at 5:23 am
@Raul C. no i believe in climate change
RL Playz
May 5, 2021 at 5:23 am
@Raul C.OK = umk
Raul C.
May 5, 2021 at 5:26 am
@RL Playz I’m glad you agree… 🙂
Kloko Loko
May 5, 2021 at 8:31 pm
@RL Playz ” i believe in climate change”
me too, but I *know* that is man made and very fast
RL Playz
May 5, 2021 at 11:59 pm
@Kloko Loko yes I agree, the reason I posted the original comment is because I thought Raul C didn’t believe in climate change, the comment for me was confusing to understand and I thought he was disagreeing with climate change
Hiker SanDiego
May 5, 2021 at 4:40 am
This guy drank the cool aid.
Gee
May 5, 2021 at 4:48 am
I’m a communication student and this video really helped me with understanding basic com concepts and learnt alot about climate change.
Steven Farm
May 5, 2021 at 5:48 am
What a beta thumbnail
عبدالرحمٰن Abdul Rehman
May 5, 2021 at 5:50 am
I talk to people about the weather changes, less rain, crops ripening earlier each year.
And the last 200 years of industrialization.
Pete Marvin
May 5, 2021 at 8:33 am
Yeah, make sure you mention the danger to tea and coffee crops, lol. That always gets ears perked up.
عبدالرحمٰن Abdul Rehman
May 5, 2021 at 11:16 am
@Pete Marvin wheat is more important here
Harsh Karagathara
May 5, 2021 at 6:27 am
Brother only talking about the climate change is not enough, also you have to work practical for the environment. Because even a fool can talk about climate change if he has reading skills.
Julia Julsen
May 5, 2021 at 6:44 am
So, what was the male climate scientists reason to dedicate their live to science? Did they even bother to ask?
Ashley Gross
May 5, 2021 at 6:49 am
I wanna be this guy when I graduate college.
D
May 5, 2021 at 8:52 am
I’m too poor to care about climate change
Gareth Michell
May 5, 2021 at 9:17 am
Caring costs nothing. Understanding and adding your voice costs nothing. You’ll only be poorer when food chains start to fail and prices go up.
D
May 5, 2021 at 10:46 am
@Gareth Michell bilionares have all the resources to change the world, yet they rather make rockets and go to Mars. I rather see the world fall apart than save it FOR them
Gareth Michell
May 5, 2021 at 10:52 am
How about saving it for the other 8 billion people, plus all the future people to come? You’d rather destroy the world over bitterness against wealthy people? Come on, even you don’t believe that.
D
May 5, 2021 at 12:06 pm
@Gareth Michell we can’t keep living like slaves, it’s not a life.
Aaron D
May 5, 2021 at 10:00 am
Dude is ignorant.
The SUN accounts for 95% of ‘climate change’. And he’s misquoting this 100 scientist bs.
A lie repeated often doesn’t make it a fact.
Man accentuated climate change is not the issue.
Oh, and what qualifications does this guy have?
Kloko Loko
May 5, 2021 at 8:20 pm
Sun is down last 43 years, not much but enough.
Nerby
May 5, 2021 at 10:21 am
I dont know if its a lack of info? People know that sugar and smoking is bad but they do it anyway.
kougar7
May 5, 2021 at 11:23 am
First time I’ve genuinely heard anyone else make the Fahrenheit conversion… people hear 5C and simply gloss over it, yet 9F sure does get people to stop and blink.
Big Dee
May 5, 2021 at 12:48 pm
Self loathing taking place … please step to the side
Pepe Stock is Soaring
May 5, 2021 at 2:35 pm
Name ONE person who has died from climate change. Now name the year we all die.
rufus pope
May 5, 2021 at 4:07 pm
How about all the people who died in texas from the incredibly unseasonal snowstorm that devastated the state for starters?
Pepe Stock is Soaring
May 5, 2021 at 10:57 pm
@rufus pope that’s weather, not climate change
rufus pope
May 6, 2021 at 1:07 pm
@Pepe Stock is Soaring you realise climate change influences weather patterns right? This is incredibly basic stuff
Pepe Stock is Soaring
May 6, 2021 at 10:46 pm
@rufus pope so how on earth do you know that was caused by climate change?
rufus pope
May 7, 2021 at 5:13 pm
@Pepe Stock is Soaring by this logic you can’t ascribe anything to climate change at all. The rapid changes to the climate as a result of human activity in recent decades have led to more frequent extreme weather patterns
richard french
May 7, 2021 at 6:45 pm
@rufus pope
funny, the population has grown by leaps and bounds over recent decades.
We have recored crop production
We have record green earth
and as a matter of PERCENTAGES, less people die now of weather.
Go back to your hakie sac and gender studies, rufus,
rufus pope
May 9, 2021 at 11:25 am
@richard french don’t know what any of that has to do with rapid climate change that will only get worse. You need to learn to stay focused on the topic at hand, especially if you want to talk academia
richard french
May 9, 2021 at 1:32 pm
@rufus pope
it seems the warmer the earth the more green it is, the more food, the more people.
so much for your climate change dystopia.
rufus pope
May 10, 2021 at 10:17 am
@richard french uhhh no that’s not how that works at all. Population change is due to human capacity and capability. A warmer earth will cause rising sea levels, tropical storms and draughts. All of which will cause significant damage to humanity
richard french
May 10, 2021 at 10:23 am
@rufus pope
ah, so climate change and a warming earth is :
Plenty of food.
A green planet.
A growing population.
Sounds horrible
DarkSaruman
May 5, 2021 at 3:13 pm
The most important video I’ve seen in a long time!
SATISH KUMAR
May 10, 2021 at 9:09 am
The Copenhagen summit-2009 on Climate Change and the views expressed by the Microsoft Head Bill Gates in the year 2015 about a Virus and now Covid-19 creates many doubts.
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Wanda Zúñiga
May 5, 2021 at 5:12 pm
This was simply precise and concise
wojciech strzelecki
May 5, 2021 at 5:47 pm
Nice propaganda bro…
Maped M
May 5, 2021 at 9:04 pm
Too fast. This is impossible to translate the ideas at this speed to people that need to hear them.
Laura
May 5, 2021 at 9:34 pm
We were taught this in primary school back in my day, i can’t believe some people in America haven’t even HEARD of it????
They're Distorting Your Rhythm 130
May 6, 2021 at 6:38 am
USA Weather Channel Founder John Coleman Exposed the climate change govt money grab tax over 10 yrs ago
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richard french
May 7, 2021 at 6:29 pm
I was taught about the coming Ice age, how Nebraska and Iowa would be in permafrost, and NYC would be uninhabitable by 2010
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May 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm
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MegaSnail1
May 5, 2021 at 11:40 pm
Thank you… Your ideas are essential. Be well
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May 6, 2021 at 3:59 am
Less talk, more DO!
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May 6, 2021 at 4:00 am
Not if but When aliens 👽 come they will either want our resources and exterminate us or see how destructive we are with the planet, other living beings, and each other and exterminate us.
Nini Beats
May 6, 2021 at 6:56 am
I loved the ending so much, “colossal BUT winnable fight”. Thank you for the information. Let’s inspire some change!
richard french
May 7, 2021 at 6:33 pm
He doesn’t care about climate or CO2 emissions and I can prove it one paragraph.
mizzukashi
May 6, 2021 at 9:24 am
Pretty universally usable. Well done.
TRIBE OF MENTORS
May 6, 2021 at 3:30 pm
The most memorable people in your life will be the people who love you when you were not loving yourself ….
Never give up! More cheers more love ♥
Ron Tailwind
May 6, 2021 at 4:52 pm
the problem is that you put a spastic 14 year old to deliver your message. You cannot make people understand if they dont have the mentality to do it. What you need to do, is raise the education level of the society, prioritize science in school rather than sports or the Kardashians. Hammering climate change to the current population will not work
also if you want to get real. Using aliens as an example means you are dumbing down you message. Everyone know that in the vastness of the the universe, a space traveling alien will not care
Pierre Marais
May 6, 2021 at 6:29 pm
Earth has been gradually warming up since the ice age, it’s normal.
Concerned Citizen
May 6, 2021 at 6:42 pm
Nice Illuminati hand posture in the thumbnail.
Catherine Dixon
May 6, 2021 at 10:14 pm
I go by the science not propaganda like this still.
Andrew Skipsey
May 7, 2021 at 1:46 am
Ah yes, because I’m sure the vast majority of humanity which produces next-to-nothing in terms of global emissions will be happy to hear that they too are part of the problem. There’s a very clear group which produces the most emissions, we don’t need to be tailoring messages to the people who aren’t part of the problem.
姝彤 朱
May 7, 2021 at 1:30 pm
Nice video
richard french
May 7, 2021 at 6:32 pm
1. Scientists have not concluded pollution is irreversible heating the earth.
Stopped listening after that, this is made for low IQ humanities majors that just take up space.
From 1940 to 1980 the earth cooled. Why? because pollution was blocking the sun rays.
LOL
Sebastian Williams
May 8, 2021 at 11:00 am
Well done! It’s really essential to communicate it more and more people.
wavion2
May 9, 2021 at 12:02 am
The problems I’ve encountered aren’t with an inability to understand, it’s a refusal to believe. So many people think of it as “liberal propaganda.” Or they might believe it’s happening but refuse to believe we had anything to do with it. “This has happened many times on our planet before.” Which is unfortunately true (just not in such a short period of time).
richard french
May 9, 2021 at 9:00 pm
I can prove in one paragraph it is liberal propaganda
irthiza
May 11, 2021 at 9:14 am
@richard french it’s because you’re a snowflake. Travel to costal counties like ours where the climate changes have caused destruction of properties and left us with millions of climate refugees who are moving away from the south to north and causing capacity problems in cities. It’s easier to sit in safety and speculate without experiencing it. Calling climate change a propaganda is same as calling the earth flat, both are the lazy conclusion of a narrow mind which hasn’t experienced much or have the capability of critical thinking.
Bruce Wayne
May 9, 2021 at 1:49 am
This needs more viewssssss
Melroy van den Berg
May 11, 2021 at 12:48 am
thanks! I will try your tips
irthiza
May 11, 2021 at 9:24 am
Actually from an objective viewpoint I’d say there isn’t much danger. If climate change goes out of hand, most of the humanity to go extinct which will severely bring down the Carbon emission and all kind of pollutions. I know by that time global temperature will cross the irreversible threshold but give it a thousand years and the point of equilibrium will shift to even things out. Nature is tougher than we think it is. In the end it is we humans who will get fucked. But judging by how we choose to be a bunch ignorant apes despite knowing and understanding everything, I’d say we deserve it.
Randall Hill
May 11, 2021 at 6:45 pm
.Evidence (Antarctic ice core analysis) demonstrates that climate change is due to recurring 100 thousand year cycles. We are nearing the peak of a warming cycle that has not yet reached previous maximum levels … still 2 degrees C colder than previous (when humans were not around) . That Earth may be warming, therefore, is not surprising. But global temperature has increased less than 1 degree C over the past 50 years. No evidence exists that human impact on the warming is significant. Resources, instead, should be spent on fixing concentrated pockets of real pollution. Free market enterprise will take care of all else (electric cars, solar panels, etc.)