I will give them credit that they seem to "get it" more than what you normally hear spewing from NPR. Most of what is coming off NPR sounds like a lot of young people still green behind the ears of the reality of the world we live in. I do take question with a couple of the issues brought up, one is the ability to just print money for whatever we want. That isn't quite accurate because you can print money to where it has no value. Bee's aren't dying off because of climate change verses the chemical used in agriculture to control insects and weeds and the increase of the number of people utilizing those same methods for those reasons in their own yards. Oil isn't the most devastating product known to mankind, that title would belong to religion. Yes it would seem to make logical sense that if we weren't supplying bombs and ammunition to initiate wars people wouldn't be fleeing their countries, but since it's religion not oil at the heart of the problems it wouldn't matter if we never bought another barrel of oil again from the middle east and left them to their own devices they'd still genocide one another over their religious beliefs. Most people might feel quite comfortable with that fact, let them do what they want to do but eventually whoever comes out on top will be able to buy the kind of munition(s) to spread their violence across other regions in quest of compliance to their holy one. I think what most people miss, and this is because they don't stop and look at the middle east and the many different fractions, is that the hatred runs deep, it's biblical, runs rampant and has done so way before the invention of oil. If someone actually took the time and tried to sort out all the many different differences in religions and how that makes them interact with themselves you would become increasingly depressed after the rationalization that's it's religion churning the hate, since religion isn't going to go anywhere along with each established different belief the answer to peace will never be found. Now we go on to his claims on the demands for oil and how it helps the economic wheels prosper. If there is a fault with something we'd all like to think we are not complicit in that fault but the truth is when it comes to the increasing demand for oil each and everyone of us are complicit when we demand or want cheap products. The further away from home a product is made that we buy the more we have contributed to climate change. (Though the climate change debate rattles on in many different perspectives of what creates it) Take for instance articles that have come out and said the gains we made toward reductions of CO2 in the atmosphere were lost when we initiated NAFTA. That put thousands of more trucks on the route daily increasing our CO2 output. You can google and read the stats. It's not just the added trucks either, it the corporations who have also fled to other countries for cheaper labor and less regulation on air quality to produce products. So unless people stop worrying about price and the cost of doing business with those who implement and pay to maintain the required regulations to reduce CO2 the guilty party isn't the oil companies, the guilty party is you expecting the oil companies to meet your demand in the deliver of cheap products, they actually produce less CO2 manufacturing a product then what is expelled out into the atmosphere on a combined total in a demand produced by one's demand for cheap products.