You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.

Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.

Every day we put another 110 million tons of global warming pollution into the sky as if it's an open sewer, and it's still building up. And the scientists tell us it's a race against time. We've stabilized emissions globally now for the last three years, but they need to start coming down quickly. We've got the momentum, we've got the wind in our sails, we're gonna win this.

You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.