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.
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.
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
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.
They will burn the plastic, duh
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.
If Earth is lucky. We’re unfortunately a very hardy species.