WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.041 --> 00:00:02.419 This Alabama middle schooler has been arrested 2 00:00:02.419 --> 00:00:06.131 after taking a basketball back out from under her shirt last week. 3 00:00:06.131 --> 00:00:08.466 13 year old Grace Smith placed a basketball 4 00:00:08.466 --> 00:00:10.969 under her shirt saying, look at me, I'm pregnant. 5 00:00:10.969 --> 00:00:14.097 But after her period was over, she removed the basketball 6 00:00:14.097 --> 00:00:16.808 and was immediately reported for terminating her pregnancy. 7 00:00:16.808 --> 00:00:19.811 Under Alabama's abortion ban, Smith has been jailed 8 00:00:19.811 --> 00:00:22.939 and is currently awaiting trial and has been criticized by pro-life 9 00:00:22.939 --> 00:00:26.818 advocates for callously ending the life of an innocent, defenseless basketball. 10 00:00:26.860 --> 00:00:28.695 The state of Alabama has noted 11 00:00:28.695 --> 00:00:31.239 that they will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law 12 00:00:31.239 --> 00:00:34.242 and that Smith could be facing up to 20 years of jail time. 13 00:00:34.242 --> 00:00:36.911 Prosecutors have noted that there will be no leniency 14 00:00:36.911 --> 00:00:40.206 regardless of whether the basketball was forcibly placed under Smith's shirt 15 00:00:40.373 --> 00:00:43.209 or if continuing to carry the basketball for nine months 16 00:00:43.209 --> 00:00:45.128 would have presented medical complications. 17 00:00:45.128 --> 00:00:47.714 While many are condemning the handling of Smith's case, 18 00:00:47.714 --> 00:00:50.300 others are saying that she's getting what she deserves as that 19 00:00:50.300 --> 00:00:53.303 basketball could have one day grown up to be in the NBA. 20 00:00:53.386 --> 00:00:54.387 Thieves and burglars. 21 00:00:54.387 --> 00:00:55.305 What do you always look 22 00:00:55.305 --> 00:00:58.391 for when casing a house to rob a crappy car in the driveway? 23 00:00:58.391 --> 00:01:01.394 That usually means they keep all their bounty of riches inside. 24 00:01:01.394 --> 00:01:03.646 Jackpot architectural detail. 25 00:01:03.646 --> 00:01:05.899 I wouldn't be caught dead robbing a prewar home if it. 26 00:01:05.899 --> 00:01:08.985 The fireplace mantel doesn't have its original molding tacky. 27 00:01:09.110 --> 00:01:12.739 If there's a single lamp left on, especially for days or weeks at a time, 28 00:01:12.822 --> 00:01:14.365 it's always a hard pass. 29 00:01:14.365 --> 00:01:15.492 Just too risky. 30 00:01:15.492 --> 00:01:18.161 Always check to see if it is a shoes of household. 31 00:01:18.161 --> 00:01:20.121 We may be robbers, but we're not monsters. 32 00:01:20.121 --> 00:01:22.624 We're always on the lookout for cute shops in the neighborhood. 33 00:01:22.624 --> 00:01:26.211 It's a great way to celebrate a big score, especially if there's a Froyo. 34 00:01:26.294 --> 00:01:29.923 It's important to find a family photo you can break to symbolize how fragile 35 00:01:29.923 --> 00:01:31.758 the safety of their loved ones really is. 36 00:01:31.758 --> 00:01:33.760 What if their family had been there when broken? 37 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:35.929 What would they have done? Would someone have gotten hurt? 38 00:01:35.929 --> 00:01:39.432 Do I even have what it takes to protect the ones I'm supposed to love the most? 39 00:01:39.474 --> 00:01:41.684 These are the questions they should be asking themselves 40 00:01:41.684 --> 00:01:43.144 when they look down at the broken picture 41 00:01:43.144 --> 00:01:46.856 frame that I smashed on the ground on my way out of their once happy home. 42 00:01:46.940 --> 00:01:48.566 A big bowl of loose change. 43 00:01:48.566 --> 00:01:51.611 Grab that off the kitchen counter and you're getting away with 15 44 00:01:51.611 --> 00:01:53.196 or 16 big ones, baby. 45 00:01:53.196 --> 00:01:55.824 Climate change is here now. 46 00:01:55.824 --> 00:01:57.742 Floods. Droughts. 47 00:01:57.742 --> 00:01:59.577 Once in a century, storms. 48 00:01:59.577 --> 00:02:02.914 And the frustrating part for me as a climatologist is 49 00:02:02.997 --> 00:02:04.958 that this could all have been avoided. 50 00:02:04.958 --> 00:02:06.876 Scientific consensus is clear. 51 00:02:06.876 --> 00:02:09.003 There is a way to reverse course. 52 00:02:09.003 --> 00:02:17.178 And that is for Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to try a little harder. 53 00:02:17.262 --> 00:02:20.014 People get caught up in altering their personal habits 54 00:02:20.014 --> 00:02:23.852 by driving less or eating less meat. 55 00:02:23.935 --> 00:02:27.313 But the reality is this is all in Greta's hands. 56 00:02:27.397 --> 00:02:29.274 She could give our children and inhabitable 57 00:02:29.274 --> 00:02:32.902 earth instead of a scorched hellscape if she just cared 58 00:02:33.069 --> 00:02:36.489 30 to 40% more about the fate of our planet. 59 00:02:36.573 --> 00:02:38.658 But she doesn't. 60 00:02:38.658 --> 00:02:41.035 I guess because she's lazy. 61 00:02:41.035 --> 00:02:41.578 Sure. 62 00:02:41.578 --> 00:02:45.582 She rode that yacht across the Atlantic to raise awareness about the environment, 63 00:02:45.623 --> 00:02:48.334 but that only took, like, two weeks. 64 00:02:48.334 --> 00:02:50.670 I mean, come on, Greta. 65 00:02:50.670 --> 00:02:52.630 Our research shows you could be sailing that yacht. 66 00:02:52.630 --> 00:02:55.925 24 seven 365 days a year. 67 00:02:56.009 --> 00:02:58.052 What the fuck 68 00:02:58.052 --> 00:03:00.054 do you hate the earth? 69 00:03:00.054 --> 00:03:00.513 Indeed. 70 00:03:00.513 --> 00:03:04.851 If you look at a chart of CO2 emissions in the years since Greta's birth, in 2003, 71 00:03:04.934 --> 00:03:07.937 the problem of fossil fuels has only risen. 72 00:03:08.062 --> 00:03:12.734 Frankly, it's possible she wants us all to die. 73 00:03:12.817 --> 00:03:13.776 Still, 74 00:03:13.776 --> 00:03:17.655 we should all hope that one day Greta starts actually making an effort. 75 00:03:17.697 --> 00:03:18.823 Like a real effort now. 76 00:03:18.823 --> 00:03:21.910 Whatever the hell she's doing now, or else the blood of millions 77 00:03:21.910 --> 00:03:26.247 lost to a climate apocalypse could be entirely on her hands.