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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.

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 142 points 1 month ago

History will not judge him kindly. He oversaw a hiatus on his country's march to fascism but ultimately chose upholding the status quo over real change that would actually have stopped it

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 58 points 1 month ago

I’m not convinced that history will care given that we are headed towards extinction.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago

Nah, there will be a few million humans that eek out survival on the tropical Antarctic archipelago.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] msage@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

They will burn the plastic, duh

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

not that it matters a whole lot, given the context of this discussion, but it's *eke

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[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

If Earth is lucky. We’re unfortunately a very hardy species.

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[-] Gointhefridge@lemm.ee 66 points 1 month ago

Oh NOW history is watching! Hasn’t been watching for the last 4 years at all it seems but I guess history took a little break.

[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 62 points 1 month ago

They're watching us do nothing when the planet burns. Wonder what they think of us, probably something like this

[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

Yup, history is watching us completely drop the ball here. History is watching Joe Biden fail to rise to the occasion of addressing the onslaught of US fascism. The environment, peace, wealth, and our very freedoms are now in dire peril.

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[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This was so important to me that I decided to only do it a month before I'm leaving.

[-] Doorbook@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

It is so important to me that I help dropping bomb in two month that "... was equivalent to burning at least 150,000 tonnes of coal. The emissions from the first two months of the Gaza war exceeded the annual carbon footprint of over 20 climate-vulnerable nations."

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

It was watching you for the last 4 years, Joe.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He did a lot. The IRA law got a ton of green investments and enterprises going, including attracting businesses from across the globe. But that's all gone now with Trump.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You don't have to carry water for him anymore. He's not running.

Biden bragged about record oil production. Bragged.

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yet another handout to car dependency grifters. Nothing green about that.

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yup.

Americans are too lazy and dumb to pay attention. The majority thought Biden sucked and didn't accomplish anything. Couldn't be further from the truth.

We're a society of irresponsible voters and the decline we're about to experience is no one's fault but our own.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago

Is history watching how we handle Gaza and Israel too?

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

History is gonna binge watch it later.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago

I'm waiting for the 2nd half of the season to drop

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Oh it'll drop

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[-] Absaroka@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Not for nothing, but waiting until the waning days and weeks of your presidency to take a trip to the Amazon and say this feels a little ... lackluster.

And exactly the kind of thing people are grilling the Democrats for after the election. Biden should have been saying this in his first year, not the 11th hour.

[-] ssladam@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Maybe someone could have mentioned this during election season if it was so important?

[-] hark@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Wasn't this the administration bragging about approving a record number of fracking permits?

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[-] tee9000@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

History is watching you fly a military escort to the amazon and back for a photo op you dip

[-] Homescool@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

History is watching an absolutely tone-deaf Democratic party doing their best PR work.

Read the room for once, Dems. This is not what we need right now.

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[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lets see him be the first fracking-suporting president to drink the water in an area where fracking has permanently destroyed the groundwater with forever chemicals.

Who cares if he visits a rainforest. Thats utterly meaningless.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Lol.

We just voted against addressing climate change and, in fact, for making it worse.

Humans are going to destroy this planet. That is indisputable. The only question is if we'll have the means to leave for another one before it's too late.

[-] telllos@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

To go where? If we can fix another planet, we can fix our own. If we can reach another planet, probably we could fix our planet. But we cant, because of money.

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Fuck you too, Joe.

[-] msage@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Yes, Joe!

Do more shit for the next admin to immediately dismantle. At least to keep them busy for a few weeks.

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[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 6 points 1 month ago

Will miss you Biden. I saw the policies youve tried and how hard you were filibusted on climate policies.

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