From the Amazon rainforest, Biden declares nobody can reverse US progress on clean energy

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 8:55 PM EST, November 17, 2024


MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Speaking from the Amazon rainforest, President Joe Biden declared Sunday that there’s no going back in America’s “clean energy revolution” even as the incoming Trump administration vows to spur fossil fuel production and scale back efforts against climate change.

Biden, the first sitting U.S. president to visit the world’s largest tropical rainforest, saw up close the ravages of deforestation. The Amazon, which is about the size of Australia, stores huge amounts of the world’s carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas driving climate change. But development is rapidly depleting the long-verdant region, where rivers have been running dry.

Flanked by giant ferns in the forest, Biden said the fight against climate change has been a defining cause of his presidency — he’s pushed for cleaner air, water and energy and achieved legislation that steered unprecedented federal spending to the fight against global warming.

But he’s about to hand off to Republican President-elect Donald Trump, who is highly unlikely to prioritize the Amazon or anything related to climate change, which he’s cast as a “hoax.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/biden-amazon-peru-g20-3cc827382d1e3c32865a14616ddfe467

[LymphocyteLover]

1. definitely one of his greatest achievements

[Think. Again.]

2. Okay, not going backwards is good, but...

...when it comes to climate chaos, the only way we can attempt to avoid massive disruption and death in the coming few decades is to make even stronger progress at reducing and eliminating CO2 emissions, now.

Unfortunately, we won't be doing that, during the most critical decade there will be in making those reductions.

Thank goodness I never had children.

[Magoo48]

9. The inevitable outcomes of climate catastrophe are irreversible.

Our next generations will pay an enormous price for the first world’s unwillingness to be inconvenienced. The measures taken so far are truly like throwing spitwads at battleships.
Now, the best we can do for our grandchildren is to begin teaching adaptive, civil engineering and sciences, practical adaptive techniques, and horticulture beginning in kindergarten and all the way up. But, we won’t.

[Think. Again.]

10. I'm afraid there will be a large population decline in the next generation or two.

[Elessar Zappa]

12. We could, if every country treated it as an emergency, prevent the

worst case scenario of 4° increase. But it appears we don’t have the will to do what must be done.

[kerouac2]

3. Trump: challenge accepted! nt

[Timewas]

4. So

T-rump replies "Hold My Beer"

[Autumn]

5. Wishful thinking. Trump will do it.

[jfz9580m]

6. K&R-fingers crossed Joe

Thanks for your efforts and fingers crossed.

[travelingthrulife]

7. Elon/Trump says "hold my beer"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Yes. "Challenge accepted"

[republianmushroom]

8. Maybe not reversed but I'll bet it will be slowed down a lot.

45 months and counting

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Wait 6 months and see what they will do. A major reversal is about to happen if EPA nominee is confirmed.

[electric_blue68]

13. Having marched for Renewable Energies in the mid '80s drumphf's return is dispiriting for this and so many other reasons

Seeing President Biden is an uplifting event.
Imagine no President has thought to go since he originsl visit.