It’s no surprise that climate advocate Greta Thunberg clashed with former President Donald Trump. But how does this young climate crusader feel about America’s current president, Joseph Biden? In an interview with the Washington Post, Thunberg revealed her feelings on Biden and her statements may come as a surprise to those who thought they knew what Thunberg thinks.
While Joe Biden is seen as a climate change leader by world leaders, Greta Thunberg disagrees. She found it “strange” that so many people were praising Biden’s efforts in the wake of what she sees as his inadequate efforts thus far. “When you see what his administration is doing,” Greta Thunberg stated, you probably wouldn’t be as enthusiastic about Biden as some pundits.
Biden’s Clean Energy Revolution proposal promises to make a significant difference in the world. However, Thunberg is unconvinced. She feels that Biden’s efforts are actually worsening the climate problem. Although the current president appears to be concerned about climate change and seems to be making efforts to correct America’s mistakes when it comes to global warming, she believes he should be doing far more.
“The US is actually expanding fossil fuel infrastructure,” said Thunberg to Washington Post’s, KK Ottesen. “Why is the US doing that?”
Thunberg is a Swedish high school student. She successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean to attend a climate conference in the United States, according to media reports.
“It should not fall on us activists and teenagers who just want to go to school to raise this awareness and to inform people that we are actually facing an emergency,” she said.
The vice president’s climate change policy focuses on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. According to a news story published by Daily Mail, his administration aims to achieve 100% clean electricity by 2035 and net-zero emissions by 2050.
The epidemic, on the other hand, has resulted in an increase in worldwide oil production and skyrocketing gasoline costs at the pump. Biden has worked to decrease prices by drawing upon a portion of America’s reserves so that regular Americans can spend less money filling their cars with petrol.
“The money that has already been promised, the bare minimum that the so-called global north has promised that they will deliver, they failed to come to any conclusions, and it’s been postponed once again,” Thunberg stated. She has been nominated for the Nobel Prize each of the last three years.
UN leaders, in her view, are making progress, but they have a long way to go. She is happy that the final document from the climate summit in 2021 for the first time refers to fossil fuels.
“Of course, it’s a step forward that, instead of coming back every five years, they’re doing it every year now,” Thunberg stated. “But still, that doesn’t mean anything unless that actually leads to increased ambition and if they actually fulfill those ambitions.”
