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Actor Alec Baldwin was asked what his greatest concern is in post-Trump-victory American, and his response was the same as one that William Shatner gave recently.

Baldwin spoke to reporters at the Torino Film Festival in Turin, Italy, at which he was given a Stella della Mole lifetime achievement award and his The Hunt For Red October was screened. Baldwin has been emerging from the Rust tragedy, and has been appearing with some regularity on Saturday Night Live.

The actor alluded to the election at the top of the press conference, and was later asked about his “hopes and concerns” after Trump’s win. His response tracked closely with what Shatner told Bill Maher last week:

REPORTER: I’m a great fan of The Hunt for Red October. I saw it for the fifth time on TV last week, and we will see it again this night.But at the beginning of this conversation, you were talking about the United States and you were talking about your concerns about the United States.You said the information is lacking, but what are exactly your concerns after the elections are been been done? So from a political point of view, what are your hopes and your concerns about it, about America?ALEC BALDWIN: Thank you very much. Well, I think that we have to have you know, when the United States decides that it wants to do something and they want to bring an extraordinary

amount of money– because the United States is in debt a great deal, but still very wealthy country. They still have a high GNP and so forth.There’s a lot of money available to do things. And I’m okay. And. I’m the one you want to put a man on the moon. They put a man on the moon.You want to do all these great things, the WPA, you want to have all these projects that help people.We need to have an Apollo project. I don’t say Manhattan Project because that’s destructive. That’s a bomb that killed people.I say Apollo Project, regarding the environment. Plastics pollution in the United States is in an epidemic now. It’s everywhere. They found plastics pollution in the permafrost on the poles. There is plastic particulate plastic in every corner of the world now in all bodies of water. And something has to be done about that. Something has to be done. Because who knows what the you know, in another ten years.The last 20 years is nothing in a line of history. But if you go into the 20, 30, 40 years, what the results are going to be for human health. I don’t know. Plastics pollution and global warming.I think that, for example, in the United States, every single state. I’ll give you one example. And I worked with
people who proposed this idea. Every single state in the United States would be told they must by law, or we would withhold certain funding from them or highways of the United States. Kind of bribes. The government blackmails all the states by saying, you want that highway money, you don’t do this, or there’s a lot of things they can do to play games with the state governments.But. What you want to say to them is you must have a you must have a alternative energy component to every building you manufacture over a certain size that is a public building. School, university, airport, bus station, hospital, government building. You need to have a photovoltaic element, a solar element embedded in the roof of that building and in the adjoining parking areas. It needs to be fully solar and wind or one or the other or both.You must force these states to embrace alternative energy. And because it’s the only I believe that’s one only one component. What we must do aggressively in the next, not 30 years, like the next ten. That’s one example of– people I’ve worked with. That’s one idea that they have proposed.You must force them to do it. But to say to them, because we can cut, you’re never going to get rid of gas. You’re never going to get rid of
oil as a fuel, refined or otherwise. You’re going to have, you can’t rely on people plugging in the ambulance. Plugging in the firetruck, we will still have vehicles, typically emergency vehicles that will be powered by gas, police, fire, ambulance. But if you cut consumer use by half, that’s a good start.

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