Using California’s Camp Fire as a jumping off point, Chomsky began, ” the IPCC, the international group of scientists monitoring climate change, came out with a very ominous report warning that the world has maybe a decade or two to basically end its reliance on fossil fuels if we’re to have any hope of controlling global warming below the level of utter disaster.”

Noting that opening up the "Amazon to further exploitation will be another serious blow at the prospects of survival of organized human society,” Chomsky then bashed the Trump administration for plans to increase fracking and ease auto emissions standards for the most cynical of reasons.