Will Joe Biden become the climate change President? Don’t get your hopes up.
Will Joe Biden become the climate change President? Don’t get your hopes up. By Dick Platkin, CityWatchLA, December 3, 2020 https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/20855-will-joe-biden-become-the-climate-change-president-don-t-get-your-hopes-up Planning Watch: Because Donald Trump has a well-deserved reputation for making the climate crisis worse, many pro-Biden pundits believed that Biden’s victory over Trump means the United States government will now take the climate crisis seriously. They point to Biden’s appointment of former Secretary of State John Kerry as his climate change envoy. Press reports indicate that Kerry’s first assignment will be orchestrating U.S. reentry into the Paris Climate Accords. But, before anyone prematurely pops the champagne corks, these are several reasons why the ascendancy of a Biden-led Democratic Party will barely impact the climate crisis. True, Trump’s tantrums and tweets wi...