President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, a landmark 2015 agreement on global warming targets, was a major blow to the global response to the climate crisis. The decision sent a message to the rest of the world that the United States, which can legally abandon the deal starting in 2020, will not lead the global fight against climate change.
“I will not sacrifice millions of jobs … thousands of companies for the Paris Agreement. It is very unfair,” he added.
“We are independent of energy,” said Trump, who pledged allegiance to coal and oil producers and dismissed wind and solar power sources as impractical.
“I know more about the wind than you do,” he said, speaking to Biden.
“It is extremely expensive, it kills all the birds, it is very intermittent, it has many problems and it turns out that they make windmills in both Germany and China. And the fumes that go up, if you’re a believer in carbon emissions, the fumes that go up to make these massive windmills are more than anything we’re talking about with natural gas. “
Biden replied, “Find me a scientist who says that.” In July 2020, Biden, unlike Trump, proposed spending $ 2 trillion over four years on clean energy projects and ending carbon emissions from power plants by 2035.
“I love solar power, but solar power doesn’t have it yet,” added the president. “It is not yet powerful enough to really run our big, beautiful factories that we need to compete with the world.”
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