I am writing this the night of the 2020 US elections, aware that I will be waking up early tomorrow morning, to learn who exactly has won.
You may be wondering what any of this has to do with the theme of this blog. Well, the 'defending champion' Donald Trump has said many things about climate change ranging from: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-conpetative" and "The weather has been so cold for so long that the global warming HOAXTERS were forced to change the name to climate change to keep the $ flow!" or even just more simply "I don't believe it". These statements range to: "I don't think it's a hoax, I think there's probably a difference. But I don't know that it's manmade" and "The environment is very important to me. Someone wrote a book that I'm an environmentalist".
Whatever he actually believes, I think it's fair to say that the climate is not his biggest worry.
Joe Biden, on the other hand, can be summed up by one statement - "[climate thange is the] number one issue facing humanity" and his $2 trillion climate plan that puts the US on a path to zero carbon pollution from the electricity sector by 2035, and net-zero emissions by 2050.
Here are the facts:
If we are to keep warming at 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, then global emissions must be down by 7.6% each year until 2030 when we need net-zero worldwide emissions. If we have someone in the White House for another 4 years who does not care about climate change, then the rest of the world will be forced to carry America's slack to get emissions down until 2024, which we cannot afford to do, however America very much can. We NEED America's help here!
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