Perhaps Joe shouldn’t have helped push Putin into invading Ukraine
The U.S. pledged billions to fight climate change. Then came the Ukraine war
No, the U.S. didn’t. Biden did. Yet, he has a massive carbon footprint
The United States owes billions of dollars in climate funding to developing countries. But the war in Ukraine is delaying payments and slowing down U.S. progress to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and that has leaders in low-lying and less wealthy nations feeling frustrated and forgotten.
“Effectively, the U.S. owes the rest a climate debt that needs to be paid,” says Mohamed Adow, the leader of PowerShift Africa, a coalition that advocates for climate policies across the continent. “Our continent is effectively on the front line, and we are paying for the harms [of] these climate pollutants.”
In 2021, the U.S. promised to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions this decade, and send long-overdue money to help developing countries transition to cleaner energy and protect residents from rising seas, heat waves, food instability and other dangerous climate effects.
Yes, it’s just so inconvenient for you cult grifters. You know what, you moochers?
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“It’s very disheartening and worrisome,” says Alejandra Lopez, a climate policy expert with Transforma, an environmental think tank based in Colombia. “I don’t mean to be disrespectful. [The war] is a major crisis,” she says. But “even if this [war] is a very scary scenario, climate change continues to be scarier.”
Piss off, person inconvenienced by a tiny increase in global temperatures, who’s missing out on the grifter money.
There are many ways that the war in Ukraine is delaying U.S. climate action, according to climate economists. The Russian invasion is contributing to global economic inflation, which feeds opposition to major infrastructure legislation stuck in Congress. That legislation would help the U.S. meet its emissions goals by investing in electric vehicles, solar and wind electricity and energy-efficient buildings.
Higher gasoline prices also led the Biden administration to encourage U.S. fossil fuel companies to produce more oil and gas.
And then there’s the problem of mental bandwidth. “The biggest risk for U.S. climate action is just a lack of focus and attention,” says Trevor Houser, a climate analyst at the think tank Rhodium Group in the U.S. “Policymakers in any country have limited attention, and the war in Ukraine is a giant crisis that requires a lot of focus and attention.”
We’re so sorry this is happening to you. It’s so much worse than all the death and destruction and displacement in Ukraine.
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