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?
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.”
It was watching you for the last 4 years, Joe.
He did a lot. The IRA law got a ton of green investments and enterprises going, including attracting businesses from across the globe. But that’s all gone now with Trump.
You don’t have to carry water for him anymore. He’s not running.
Biden bragged about record oil production. Bragged.
Just like the last great savior did
Yet another handout to car dependency grifters. Nothing green about that.
It’s maddening how well that shit works
Yup.
Americans are too lazy and dumb to pay attention. The majority thought Biden sucked and didn’t accomplish anything. Couldn’t be further from the truth.
We’re a society of irresponsible voters and the decline we’re about to experience is no one’s fault but our own.
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.
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.
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
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.
Will miss you Biden. I saw the policies youve tried and how hard you were filibusted on climate policies.
meaningless
Yes, Joe!
Do more shit for the next admin to immediately dismantle. At least to keep them busy for a few weeks.
At least to keep them busy for a few weeks.
itll take minutes to undo.
Oh so that’s the context. I saw some Alt-Righters joking about how Biden “vanished in the rain forest never to be seen again”
There won’t be anyone left to read the history.
holy shit I hate these soulless motherfuckers so goddamned much
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.
not that it matters a whole lot, given the context of this discussion, but it’s *eke
Autocorrect didn’t think that was a real word.
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?
What garbage policy didn’t he uphold?
I’m not saying he didn’t uphold policy.
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.
Liberalism was always going to result in fascism. The Supreme Court was captured a long time ago. Social media is all right wing propaganda. They were ready to “Stop the Steal” again with violence.
At the rate Trump’s declining he’ll be a potato or dead in 4 years.
This idea that this was the last election for the Democrats too was a losing argument.
Thinking that the vote going the way you wanted would have just turned over a perfect world is lazy and unrealistic.
Trump would not be a fading memory and is a direct symptom of the “keep going with the status quo” ignoring the issues policies we have had.
A different performer would have taken his place and we would have to do it all again for people like you to pretend it would all be perfection as soon as we got the right centrist in to make everyone forget about their and the worlds issues.
People complaining about the issues they face aren’t making them suddenly exist. People shutting up about your flaws don’t make them stop existing either. It just makes you even more ignorant to them.
The shame is that there were not more people who voted that way.
America has one party, the democrats, and cancer, the republicans. It just metastasized. One party rule sucks but it sucks less than cancer.
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.
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
Oh NOW history is watching! Hasn’t been watching for the last 4 years at all it seems but I guess history took a little break.
