Summary
President Biden became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest, emphasizing the global urgency of combating climate change.
During his historic visit, he called protecting the environment “a fight for humanity, citing achievements such as rejoining the Paris Agreement, boosting climate financing to $11 billion annually, and advancing green energy through the Inflation Reduction Act
He announced new conservation efforts, including $50 million for the Amazon Fund, and declared Nov. 17 as International Conservation Day.
Biden urged leaders to prioritize both environmental protection and economic growth, leaving a climate-focused legacy amid concerns over President-elect Trump’s rollback plans.
History will not judge him kindly. He oversaw a hiatus on his country’s march to fascism but ultimately chose upholding the status quo over real change that would actually have stopped it
I’m not convinced that history will care given that we are headed towards extinction.
If Earth is lucky. We’re unfortunately a very hardy species.
Nah, there will be a few million humans that eek out survival on the tropical Antarctic archipelago.
Who will go to form a new civilization and have absolutely no clue as to who the hell we were because we so creatively and ignorantly destroyed everything about ourselves.
And those descendents will probably go on to just repeat all the mistakes we’re making now.
Gonna be hard for them to repeat the exact mistakes now that we’ve blown through all the easy to access coal and oil. It might not be possible to get industrialization off the ground a second time
They will burn the plastic, duh
England basically deforested their entire island to burn wood before the industrial revolution. Without easy to access coal or oil, I imagine those future generations will burn all the trees everywhere to maintain their development.
What status quo are you saying he chose to uphold?
I hope all those “vote blue no matter who” people are proud. It’s such a relief that Biden brought a stop to Trump and turned the country around.
Well if people had done that instead of whining about “bLueMaGa” we wouldn’t be dealing with an upcoming Drump presidency.
In all likelihood, with yet another loss, MAGA would have fallen apart and Trump would be a fading memory rn.
But no, now there’s a chance voting either won’t exist or won’t matter in 4 years and we’ll have to hear about el orango damn near everyday. Good job.
Optimistic for you to think Trump wouldn’t just try again in 4 years.
Democrats were never going to meet this moment, they don’t have what it takes.
I guess you’re one of those people who think that once Trump has destroyed Western civilization, socialism will somehow magically emerge from the ashes. But that’s not how these things work.
I mean, it kinda does, the problem is that’s probably the most difficult, painful, blood-filled path to it