What Trump and Biden have said about climate change
For the first time in the history of presidential confrontations in the United States, climate change has become a major topic.
No longer put aside but exalted and discussed. Climate change has become a topic taken as a fact in the last presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, thus marking a small record: it is the first time in the history of presidential confrontations in the United States that climate becomes a prominent topic . In fact, sanctioning the entry of the problem into the fabric of society.
Until now, climate change had either been completely absent from the general presidential election or the debate had focused fleetingly, at most on whether it was real or not: it is, humans are the driving factor and most scientists agrees on this assumption.
TRUMP's NEGATIONAL POSITIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Over the years, President Trump has largely denied science and hired like-minded people to run the federal government, impacting greatly on American politics. During the confrontation, NBC moderator Kristen Welker asked how the candidates plan to create jobs while also addressing climate change and how to fight for environmental justice.
"The latter is the dilemma that communities of color that often live closest to polluting facilities face and which receives renewed attention as the country focuses more on system racism in the wake of police brutality against people of color but not on these aspects, ”said Axios' Amy Harder.
WHAT THE TWO CANDIDATES SAID
"I love the environment," Trump said, citing a federal program to plant trees and a drop in carbon emissions, Reuters reported. But he also added that he was unwilling to harm businesses to help the environment. Biden, for his part, replied that his plan for a transition to a more climate-friendly economy would create high-paying jobs and stimulate US businesses. "Global warming is an existential threat to humanity," Biden said. "We have a moral obligation to face it and all the leading scientists in the world tell us we don't have much time."
Trump then accused his rival of planning to destroy the oil industry, leading Biden to respond that the country should replace oil with solar, wind and other forms of non-polluting power. "I would make a transition to the oil industry because the oil industry pollutes significantly." A statement that the US president jumped at to affirm: “It is about to destroy the oil industry. Will you remember Texas? Will you remember Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Ohio? ”.
THE QUESTION OF FRACKING
The confrontation of candidates on whether or not Biden should oppose fracking then made another appearance that prompted the moderator to ask whether Biden would have ruled out the ban on fracking. "I exclude the ban on fracking," admitted the candidate Dem, who however added that he wanted to ban the fracking of oil and gas in federal lands. His plan, in fact, prohibits the new lease of oil and gas on federal lands but not the current production.
THE PANDEMIC AND WORK HAVE OVERCOME THE QUESTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE
"Environmentalists have complained for years that candidates' views on climate change were not emphasized in presidential debates," Reuters reads. But the heat waves and wildfires in the western United States and the extraordinarily high storms that hit other parts of the country have put climate issues in the spotlight. For many voters, however, the climate has been overtaken by the COVID-19 pandemic, job demands, the economy, and racial justice as issues of utmost importance in choosing a presidential candidate, as Reuters / Ipsos polls show. "The climate is a long-term concern, as opposed to unemployment or a pandemic that is today," said political scientist Larry Sabato, who heads the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/cosa-hanno-detto-trump-e-biden-sul-cambiamenti-climatici/ on Sat, 24 Oct 2020 06:45:51 +0000.