Flip-Flop on Climate Change
‘What makes climate change difficult is that it is not an instantaneous catastrophic event,” former U.S. President Barack Obama said during an interview in 2016. “It’s a slow-moving issue that, on a day-to-day basis, people don’t experience and don’t see.” He stressed that the aftermath is “terrifying.”
To deal with this challenge, Obama initiated the Clean Power Plan, which sought to lower pollution by power plants using fossil fuel. But the initiative was blocked by the Supreme Court and furthermore, just one year after he stepped down, his successor Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement.
Four years later, President Joe Biden, Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2017, is
