US President Joe Biden claims that the US considers climate change to be a “existential threat.”
Biden cites a number of recent natural disasters, such as heatwaves in the US and China, wildfires in the US and Europe, drought in Africa, and flooding in Libya, and asserts that these disasters collectively demonstrate what the world would experience if dependence on fossil fuels is not reduced.
Since the first day of Biden’s presidency, he asserts, the United States has been treating this problem as the existential threat that it is—not just to us, but to all of humanity.
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