Summary
President Biden became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest, emphasizing the global urgency of combating climate change.
During his historic visit, he called protecting the environment “a fight for humanity, citing achievements such as rejoining the Paris Agreement, boosting climate financing to $11 billion annually, and advancing green energy through the Inflation Reduction Act
He announced new conservation efforts, including $50 million for the Amazon Fund, and declared Nov. 17 as International Conservation Day.
Biden urged leaders to prioritize both environmental protection and economic growth, leaving a climate-focused legacy amid concerns over President-elect Trump’s rollback plans.
Who said we’re fixing another planet? If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to move to another one and destroy that one, then move on from there.
It’s not just money. We are inherently destructive. Our “big” brains make it so we can never be 100% compatible with our natural world the way animals are. We will ALWAYS produce waste. Right now the amount of waste we produce is obscene and entirely unstustainable. The best you can hope for is a future where education and technology allow us to produce far less waste. But we will always produce waste. We will never achieve 100% recycling capabilities. We will absolutely either destroy this planet via pollution or by using up all its available resources. We’ve made countless species go extinct and are continuing to do so. We are a virus on the face of the universe.
Our destiny is to either migrate (spread) to other planets or go extinct. That is the curse of sentience.
How misanthropic. Humans aren’t intrinsically anything, we are what we allow ourselves to be. And pragmatically, we absolutely don’t have the resources to spread to other planets but we do have the resources to improve our own, no matter how far gone it seems.
I entreat you to lookup the word “instinct” in the dictionary.
It is in our nature to consume. The more we use our unique brains to invent more things, the more we consume and the more waste we produce. We literally cannot reach a zero waste scenario unless we lost our capacity to be sentient and creative and literally lived as animals again.
The moment our brains started doing something more than what animal brains do is the moment this planet was doomed. We literally cannot do anything other than quickly, or maybe hopefully slowly, exhaust all the resources of this planet. And right now it looks like we’re going full steam ahead on the fast track option.