The North American president, Joe Biden, stated this Sunday in the Amazon that “no one can turn back the clock” of the “clean energy revolution” in the United States, in a message addressed to his successor, the president-elect. , Donald Trump.
“I am leaving my position in January. “I will leave my successor and my country a solid foundation on which to build, if they choose,” said Joe Biden, in a statement in Manaus, Brazil, in the heart of the rainforest.
“Some may try to deny or delay the clean energy revolution underway in the United States. But no one, no one can turn back time.“, he highlighted.
The Democrat today became the first sitting United States president to travel to the Amazon, a historic visit full of symbolism, a few months before the return of Republican Donald Trump to the White House.
The Republican promised during his presidential campaign to “drill at all costs [o território, para extrair o máximo de petróleo possível]” and cast doubt on the reality of climate change.
Trump also warned that he intends to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. He had already done so in his first term (2017-2021), but Joe Biden reversed that decision and made the fight against climate change an important cause of his presidency.
“The fight to protect our planet is literally a fight for humanity, for generations to come; perhaps the only existential threat to all nations and all humanity,” insisted the outgoing president of the United States.
Source: Observadora
