“Then he got ridda the pipeline.  He ridda the pipeline [indeciperable] the energy starts his downfall because we need energy for everything.  You all know that?” Republican Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker explains incorrectly during a campaign stop.  “And they were talkin’ ’bout the Green New Deal.  Y’know, climate change.  I’m gonna help y’all with that real quickly and I’m gonna do it in a Wrightsville way so you can understand what I’m sayin’.  We, in America, have some of the cleanest air and cleanest water of anybody in the world.  So we gonna put, from the Green New Deal, million or billions of dollars cleaning our good air up, so all of sudden China India ain’t puttin’ nuthin’ in their [indecipherable] clean that situation up, so that all that bad air still there but since we don’t control the air, our good air decide to float over to China bad air, so when China get our good air, their bad air gotta move so it moves over to our good air space, and now we gotta clean that back up.”

First, let me apologize for the incomplete transcription of Republican Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker’s explanation of why American air is polluted.  His accent, his unique application of grammar, and his improper positioning of the microphone make it difficult to decipher every word, as does his Palinesque spaghettification of sentence structure.  I try to be accurate with transcriptions, but there are times when it just isn’t possible. 

Second, Walker supports Republican policies that encourage air, water and soil pollution in the US, and apparently thinks air is shipped in self-contained pods around the atmosphere, so a block of air from the US gets shifted intact to China, while “China air” comes to the US.  It’s the same flawed logic that believes pollution from coal-fired power plants doesn’t cross state lines in the US:  the GOP have no sense of the impact that pollution has on the entire world, or why it’s important to cut down on it whenever and wherever humans can because it’s got a global impact.