Discuss the importance of transitioning to clean energy and the potential consequences of not doing so. Also, mention the speaker's opinion on new pipelines and the use of private funding for them.
This is not a time to listen to the defeatists.  It is time to listen to the need to mobilize our economy into action to participate in the next great industrial revolution, led by clean energy.  Reformers and other deniers like to talk about economic pain of adjustment.  That is nothing compared to the pain that will emerge if we do not adjust to the new realities.  Billions invested in new pipelines that will be anachronisms soon enough is plain folly.  But, that said, if they adopt leading safety technology and are funded entirely by private money, go ahead and make your mistakes.  Do not, however, expect us to stop modernizing and diversifying our economy simply because you were stupid.