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.
Not for nothing, but waiting until the waning days and weeks of your presidency to take a trip to the Amazon and say this feels a little … lackluster.
And exactly the kind of thing people are grilling the Democrats for after the election. Biden should have been saying this in his first year, not the 11th hour.
Exactly. Maybe someone could have mentioned this during election season if it was so important?
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
What status quo are you saying he chose to uphold?
Lol.
We just voted against addressing climate change and, in fact, for making it worse.
Humans are going to destroy this planet. That is indisputable. The only question is if we’ll have the means to leave for another one before it’s too late.
To go where? If we can fix another planet, we can fix our own. If we can reach another planet, probably we could fix our planet. But we cant, because of money.
If we can fix another planet, we can fix our own.
Who said we’re fixing another planet? If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to move to another one and destroy that one, then move on from there.
probably we could fix our planet. But we cant, because of money.
It’s not just money. We are inherently destructive. Our “big” brains make it so we can never be 100% compatible with our natural world the way animals are. We will ALWAYS produce waste. Right now the amount of waste we produce is obscene and entirely unstustainable. The best you can hope for is a future where education and technology allow us to produce far less waste. But we will always produce waste. We will never achieve 100% recycling capabilities. We will absolutely either destroy this planet via pollution or by using up all its available resources. We’ve made countless species go extinct and are continuing to do so. We are a virus on the face of the universe.
Our destiny is to either migrate (spread) to other planets or go extinct. That is the curse of sentience.
How misanthropic. Humans aren’t intrinsically anything, we are what we allow ourselves to be. And pragmatically, we absolutely don’t have the resources to spread to other planets but we do have the resources to improve our own, no matter how far gone it seems.
Humans aren’t intrinsically anything
I entreat you to lookup the word “instinct” in the dictionary.
It is in our nature to consume. The more we use our unique brains to invent more things, the more we consume and the more waste we produce. We literally cannot reach a zero waste scenario unless we lost our capacity to be sentient and creative and literally lived as animals again.
The moment our brains started doing something more than what animal brains do is the moment this planet was doomed. We literally cannot do anything other than quickly, or maybe hopefully slowly, exhaust all the resources of this planet. And right now it looks like we’re going full steam ahead on the fast track option.
Lets see him be the first fracking-suporting president to drink the water in an area where fracking has permanently destroyed the groundwater with forever chemicals.
Who cares if he visits a rainforest. Thats utterly meaningless.
This was so important to me that I decided to only do it a month before I’m leaving.
It is so important to me that I help dropping bomb in two month that “… was equivalent to burning at least 150,000 tonnes of coal. The emissions from the first two months of the Gaza war exceeded the annual carbon footprint of over 20 climate-vulnerable nations.”
History is watching you fly a military escort to the amazon and back for a photo op you dip
History is watching an absolutely tone-deaf Democratic party doing their best PR work.
Read the room for once, Dems. This is not what we need right now.
I dont know what you are even trying to say
It was watching you for the last 4 years, Joe.
Yup, history is watching us completely drop the ball here. History is watching Joe Biden fail to rise to the occasion of addressing the onslaught of US fascism. The environment, peace, wealth, and our very freedoms are now in dire peril.
How did he fail to rise to the occasion?
This is a fair question. The people voted for fascism. What’s he supposed to do, stage a coup to try and overturn the election results?
He wanted to, and thought he could rise to the occasion but old age got to him.
Right, almost any legislation he tried to pass was blocked by Congress because of Manchin and Sinema.
If we blame/punish politicians for trying then why would they keep trying?
Manchin and Sinema were enacting the will of party leadership.
By voting against the party? That doesn’t make any sense
They didn’t vote against the party. They voted against what the party ran on but never had any intention of ever doing.
Why do you feel they didn’t have any intention of doing what they ran on?
Wasn’t this the administration bragging about approving a record number of fracking permits?
Because we are at war with Russia and Iran and they won’t sell us oil and we still need oil for society to function
The US is a net exporter of oil and the country that we import most of our oil from is Canada: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6
Iran has been a constant for decades, so that isn’t a factor. While Russia has been sanctioned, their oil is still being bought up at a steep discount by India and China, so those countries’ demand for oil from other sources are reduced and the impact to the oil markets are likely insignificant overall.
Yeah we’re a net exporter after all the new contracts from the Biden admin
The process from approval to actual drilling and extraction takes longer than that. Also, we’ve been a net exporter for longer than biden has been in office.
Will miss you Biden. I saw the policies youve tried and how hard you were filibusted on climate policies.
There won’t be anyone left to read the history.
Is history watching how we handle Gaza and Israel too?
History is gonna binge watch it later.
holy shit I hate these soulless motherfuckers so goddamned much
