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.
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.
not that it matters a whole lot, given the context of this discussion, but it’s *eke
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They’re watching us do nothing when the planet burns. Wonder what they think of us, probably something like this
This was so important to me that I decided to only do it a month before I’m leaving.
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.
By eating ice cream cones while promoting a genocide. That’s just one example though.
Israel is supported by the US to prevent Iran from growing in power in the region.
Netanyahu is responsible for the genocide.
Those who blame Biden for Netanyahu’s actions are responsible for our environment, peace, wealth and very freedoms being in dire peril. Because they have empowered Trump.
But it seems pretty clear that was the goal from those bad faith actors.
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?
