Hillary Clinton Jokes She Has a “New Fondness for the Number 34” While Talking Politics, Climate Change at EMA Impact Summit
Clinton referenced Trump's 34 felony counts during a conversation at the Environmental Media Association Summit on Wednesday.
Following two days of star-studded conversations about climate change, Hillary Clinton closed out the Environmental Media Association Impact Summit on Wednesday with a chat about kids and the planet — and a dig at Donald Trump‘s recent guilty verdicts.
Clinton joined showrunner Gloria Calderón Kellett and Good Energy founder Anna Jane Joyner at the Pendry West Hollywood for a panel on how climate change is affecting children’s development. The Clinton Foundation is putting a particular focus on the issue via its Too Small to Fail program, and is pushing for it to be highlighted in Hollywood projects to increase awareness.
“There’s been a lot of really, really great efforts to convince people about climate change and a lot of really dramatic information and even dramatic movies about the consequences that we are facing,” Clinton told the crowd. “And so we know that part of the message of kind of hitting people over the head and saying, ‘For heaven’s sake, wake up, it’s going to be a disaster if you don’t do something’ is a little bit overwhelming for people, because they’re not quite sure, ‘What am I supposed to do?’ There are things that they can do and that’s where we want stories to show them. A lot of the big structural institutional changes have to happen at the global, national, state levels, but we want to empower people to have enough information to be able to do things on their own.”
The former Secretary of State also pointed out all of the recent natural disasters due to climate change, noting that they will impact economies and “climate migration is going to dominate the next 25 years. With people moving from the south, we’re going to have more disease because insects are going to be able to live at higher and higher latitudes. So these are all things that people are aware of but need to better understand, and especially that everything we worry about has an absolutely greater impact on kids.”
Clinton was asked what gives her hope right now, as she deadpanned, “I do have a new fondness for the number 34,” in reference to Trump last week being found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. She added that she also feels inspired by “the way that people are not beaten down; they’re resilient, they’re determined and that no matter how hard it is out there, we’re not going to give in or give up, and we have to feel that.”