Mayor of San Antonio Ron Nirenberg speaks on issues facing the city.
Channel: M Jacobs
Date: 2019-11-07

After a brief intro, Mayor Ron Nirenburg (@Ron_Nirenberg) of San Antonio speaks on multiple issues from the Climate Adaptation and Action Plan, San Antonio's lack of Mass Transit, socioeconomics, and wanting community input on how to face these issues head on. 

1:16 Mayor starts speech
1:52 Introduction to discussion 
4:50 San Antonio's lack of a Mass Transit system 
5:12 "paints a picture" of the issues san antonio faces
6:40 Claims Edwards Aquifer is "God's" work
6:50 Pivots to talking about socioeconomics 
7:45 Meekly asks "Anyone been to the eastside?" as if it is another country and its "rough streets" 
8:48 talks about eastside "fighting for their fair share" 
10:00 introduces the term "equity lens" allocating resources where they're needed
11:20 "certain health outcomes" 
* 12:00 North/South Hilderbrand Dr. divide talks about "Luck of the draw genetically, I GUESS"
12:33 finally starts talking about the climate
13:01 shows how little he researched prior to the speech states "don't quote me" 
14:00 "climatologically"
16:18 Paris Climate Accords
talks about electrifying the City of San Antonio's fleet yet is driven around in a black lincoln navigator
19:00 Asks if anyone is a "futurist"
19:50 Claims we "cannot prevent the Earth's temperature from rising" 
20:30 US Removes itself from the Accords
21:15 Claims local communities are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions (Chevron, Shell, Exxon, BP, Valero get free passes) 
22:40 Claims "CAAP is no better than the paper it is written on" ha, thats an understatement 
23:00 asks "yall seen a map before?" clown
23:50 "How do we change Mass transit?"
24:30 talks about highway construction 
25:25 dismisses light-rail / subway / SkyTrain in favor of "light-rail on wheels" makes 0 sense
25:55 Landfills "believe it" 
27:00 CAAP was the easy part, Nuclear "bad", talks down on Solar power
28:25 feigns talking about CPS, begins to dismiss solar energy again, (fails to mention Oil and Gas receive billion dollar subsidies to make them cheaper alternatives) (tax Valero and mention CPS has consistently failed to invest in clean energy) 
30:00 talks about food in fridges ???
30:35 get rid of coal faster than Paula Gold-Williams wants to
31:00 "prove me wrong" 
31:20 new mass transit system 
32:00 claims san antonio doesn't need light-rail, mentions autonomous buses with dedicated lanes... (bus drivers would lose jobs, bus lanes would mostly be empty)
33:30 claims to "want to hear your ideas" NEVER asks again after this. so hit him up @Ron_Nirenberg on twitter to so he can hear you :)
34:30 claims "San Antonio is an easy place to live" 
35:28 claims other countries are working harder than he is
35:30 couldn't be bothered to remember country the girl he talked to came from
37:19 stops speech, takes questions claims he's happy to converse (He was not) 
38:00 Recycling Question 
39:00 + more questions