Many problems emerged in the Biden-Trump this week. The failure to unpack the consequences of the climate crisis was the most striking.
On Thursday evening, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump “debated” major issues that confront the US. I challenge the term “debate” because it was more of a “debacle” — the standing President couldn’t articulate his own policy issues, and the former president lied more than he represented truths. Importantly, the essential topic of the climate crisis was nearly ignored in lieu of high drama in this year’s first Biden-Trump “debate.
It must be noted early on in this article that, actually, a Trump administrative rule from 2020 removed Clean Water Act protections for one-fourth of wetlands, one-fifth of streams, and 30% of watersheds that provide drinking water to households. Why weren’t these Trump-era actions part of the discussion at the 2024 Biden-Trump debate?
During his hyperbolic and lie-filled campaigning, Trump has explained how he would immediately delete Biden’s environmental work if returned to office., he promised oil executives to overturn Biden administration clean energy, environmental protection, and electric vehicle policy changes. It has been reported the Big Oil is already constructing executive orders for Trump to do exactly that if he is elected.
“If we reach 1.5 degrees Celsius at any one point, there’s no way back. The only existential threat to humanity is climate change, and didn’t do a damn thing about it. He wants to undo all that I’ve done.”— was the extent to which the US is moving ahead to build renewable energy plants, create battery factories, retrofit homes to make them more efficient, introduce more nature-friendly agricultural practices, and foreground the needs of economically disadvantaged communities.
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