Brett Meiselas

We see this all the time.

And there's also like this other story going on with the World Cup that I don't think is getting enough attention.

I feel like it's worth highlighting given that we try to highlight climate related issues on this show.

Did you guys know that this World Cup is expected to be the most climate polluting tournament in history, as well as one of the most impacted by climate change itself.

So it really is hitting both ends of this.

They're saying that the World Cup this year is going to generate roughly 9 million tons of carbon emissions, which is double the historical average.

This is because they expanded the tournaments from 32 to 48 teams.

They're spreading it across 16 cities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

So there are people just flying everywhere, and it's creating these massive, massive, massive...

carbon emissions but not only that the tournament itself has already been affected by climate change and it will likely be affected by climate change again like it could it's threatening games of the tournament because they the scientists are are looking at just the raw data and they're seeing that 14 of the 16 host cities could experience temperatures high enough that could create dangerous conditions for the players for the workers for the fans

And I feel like people don't realize that heat is already currently the biggest, one of the most dangerous conditions out there.

It's the single deadliest weather-related hazard in the entire country.

So people are constantly thinking of, oh, like hurricanes are dangerous, floods are dangerous, wildfires are dangerous.

Just heat alone, the heating of the country, the heating of the planet is the single deadliest thing that happens.

It kills more people each year than all of those things combined.

And last year, even when they had FIFA events in the United States, those events were disrupted by heat and severe weather.

And so experts are looking ahead.

They're seeing El Nino, they're seeing the rising temperatures and they're going this tournament is going to be incredibly affected as well.

And at the same time, any sort of ways that the administration, the Trump administration, could have combated these issues and actually helped with climate issues, helped to have, you know, any sort of resilience initiatives for resilience for communities to just make it so they could prepare for these extreme temperatures.

Donald Trump is, of course, doing the opposite.