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Biden Reneged on His Climate Promises. Can 2024 Be Any Different?

The climate movement needs to remind President Biden that he won’t earn our vote by bargaining away our futures.

Week after week, the United States has experienced “unprecedented” climate events: choking wildfire smoke painted East Coast skies red, thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds tore through the Midwest, and heat advisories impacted millions across the country.

Our generation has been forced to normalize this seemingly apocalyptic existence, constantly careening toward the point of no return.

more:https://www.thenation.com/article/envir ... ion-biden/

 
 

This is why Pres Biden needs a serious challenger or for that matter why every incumbent needs a serious challenger.

To keep incumbents honest !!!!!!

One of the projects in question identifies Conoco-Phillips as an interested party which if my memory serves me
well is part of a Charles Koch conglomerate of industries.
 

The 2024 election will be the first time many students are of age to vote, but we’ve carried the burden of advocating for a livable planet long before we had the electoral power to incite change.


In the wake of the 2016 election, high school students founded Zero Hour, demanding climate justice through protests and lobbying.


We’ve rooted our work in the belief that we have a right to a safe and healthy future—for ourselves, our families, our most vulnerable friends and neighbors, and future generations. But how can we be expected to continue staking our futures on the empty promises of politicians?

During the 2020 election, President Biden made a string of promises to tackle the climate crisis. “No more drilling on federal lands, period. Period, period, period.” He also pledged that in his first four years in office, he would “put our nation on the road to net-zero emissions no later than 2050.”

Yet his administration has approved 6,430 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands—even more than the Trump administration.


The promise of net-zero by 2050 will be difficult if not impossible with the recent approval of not only the Mountain Valley Pipeline but also the Willow Project and a new terminal for liquified natural gas in Alaska.


When Appalachian communities needed Congress to defend their land, air and water, our leaders bent to the demands of Big Oil and its allies in both parties.

In a debt ceiling deal that uses frontline communities as a bargaining chip, they fast-tracked the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a proposed over-300-mile fossil fuel pipeline slated to run through parts of West Virginia and Virginia; and weakened the National Environmental Protection Act, allowing more projects to be exempt from proper review.


The Mountain Valley Pipeline has already violated environmental regulations over 450 times, proposed more than 400 water body crossings, and seizeddozens of acres of privately owned land under eminent domain.

https://www.thenation.com/article/envir ... ion-biden/
 

razoo » 28 Jul 2023, 2:35 am » wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2023, 2:35 am

The climate movement needs to remind President Biden that he won’t earn our vote by bargaining away our futures. 

You tell him wazoo...

 


 

To defend Biden is easy.

The month he took office 95,000 Americans died of Covid. Today so few we don’t count them. Mission One accomplished.

Trump’s buddy Putin invaded Ukraine. How’s that worked out so far for Vlad? Joe has mobilized the entire free world to fight Russian aggression.

If gasoline prices had stayed at five dollars that **** Trump and his MAGA Republicans would have swept next years elections. It doesn’t look like they will.

If Bernie supporters will just one more time turn out to vote for an 80 year old fossil then he’ll beat a 77 year old fascist clown and then we can breathe just, a little easier.

The alternative is more Donald Trump.

Want that?

Jantje_Smit » 28 Jul 2023, 3:47 am » wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2023, 3:47 am

You tell him wazoo...

 

po'po' kazoo...devastated because joe's not doing what he said he would do...



i guess kazoo's a slow learner...
 
 

Bruce » 28 Jul 2023, 5:16 am » wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2023, 5:16 am

The alternative is more Donald Trump.

Want that?

Just say, aye......peckerhead. 

razoo » 28 Jul 2023, 2:44 am » wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2023, 2:44 am

This is why Pres Biden needs a serious challenger or for that matter why every incumbent needs a serious challenger.

To keep incumbents honest !!!!!!

One of the projects in question identifies Conoco-Phillips as an interested party which if my memory serves me
well is part of a Charles Koch conglomerate of industries.

Trump will be detained behind bars while waiting for more trials to convene BECAUSE he is a flight risk unless his big jet plane is grounded. Fascist DeSantis might be ordering more Nazi behavior in Florida so he'll be too buy to run for president = he forgot he was a candidate.

Bruce » 28 Jul 2023, 5:16 am » wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2023, 5:16 am

The alternative is more Donald Trump.

Want that?
 

yes. Not my first choice but preferable to Biden...or whoever is pulling his strings.

Biden is the greenest president this country has ever had. However, none of his efforts are putting a dent in climate change. As a matter of fact, things are getting worse.

RebelGator » 28 Jul 2023, 5:33 am » wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2023, 5:33 am

Just say, aye......peckerhead.

We survived four years of Trump and we could survive four more.

In four years he accomplished three things.

He cut taxes for the ultra rich.  That’s damned expensive but that’s not evil, just standard **** in Washington DC

And he almost wore out Air Force One.  Republicans have pissed, moaned, **** their pants and almost died over Democrats using Air Force One, all my life 

And Trump ordered Dr Fauci to develop the Covid shots.  If he had not, think of how many more Republicans would be in the graveyard?

But Trump is a clown.  Worse than old Joe, who’s just a sleepy old man.

Bruce » 28 Jul 2023, 8:41 am » wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2023, 8:41 am

We survived four years of Trump and we could survive four more.

In four years he accomplished three things.

He cut taxes for the ultra rich.  That’s damned expensive but that’s not evil, just standard **** in Washington DC

And he almost wore out Air Force One.  Republicans have pissed, moaned, **** their pants and almost died over Democrats using Air Force One, all my life 

And Trump ordered Dr Fauci to develop the Covid shots.  If he had not, think of how many more Republicans would be in the graveyard?

But Trump is a clown.  Worse than old Joe, who’s just a sleepy old man.

Trump wasn't down for war like DC wanted so he had to be dispatched.

razoo » 28 Jul 2023, 2:44 am » wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2023, 2:44 am

This is why Pres Biden needs a serious challenger or for that matter why every incumbent needs a serious challenger.

To keep incumbents honest !!!!!!

One of the projects in question identifies Conoco-Phillips as an interested party which if my memory serves me
well is part of a Charles Koch conglomerate of industries.

 Charles Koch is the right-wing billionaire owner of Koch Industries. As one of the richest people in the world, he is a key funder of the right-wing infrastructure, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the State Policy Network (SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on Charles Koch and his late brother David include: Koch Brothers, Americans for Prosperity, Stand Together Chamber of Commerce, Stand Together, Koch Family Foundations, Koch Universities, and I360. Lincoln Network - SourceWatch

LOL. Biden is not a progressive.

Biden is a neo-liberal, neocon - he serves corporations.

Sure, he throws a few bones to the progs to keep them in line.

Sumela » 28 Jul 2023, 3:57 pm » wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2023, 3:57 pm

LOL. Biden is not a progressive.

Biden is a neo-liberal, neocon - he serves corporations.

Sure, he throws a few bones to the progs to keep them in line.

absolutely correct  ......... Trump and Fascist DeSantia are criminals as they both commit crimes perhaps simultaneously 
 

neueregel » 28 Jul 2023, 8:59 am » wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2023, 8:59 am

Trump wasn't down for war like DC wanted so he had to be dispatched.

This went unanswered. Must've been an unassailable truth.   

razoo » 28 Jul 2023, 5:29 pm » wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2023, 5:29 pm

absolutely correct  ......... Trump and Fascist DeSantia are criminals as they both commit crimes perhaps simultaneously

Biden's crime of serving the War Complex and AIPAC

is a much bigger crime