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Biden’s climate chief warns against ‘U-turn agenda’ (only 6.65 years left)
Politico ^ | 6/05/24 | Zack Colman

Posted on 06/07/2024 6:27:30 PM PDT by Libloather

resident Joe Biden’s top climate adviser said he understands young activists’ impatience with the slow progress on combating climate change — but warned that the president’s political rivals are preparing a “U-turn agenda” that would reverse all the administration’s progress.

White House national climate adviser Ali Zaidi’s comments Wednesday at the POLITICO Energy Summit come as the youth-led environmental group Sunrise Movement signaled it is withholding its endorsement of Biden, who has struggled to draw support from the young voters who were crucial to his election four years ago.

Zaidi said the administration needs to communicate the stakes of the policies. Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, for his part, has blasted the Biden administration’s climate policies as a “scam” and vowed to roll them back..

A reversal of Biden’s policies “actually puts us on a U-turn trajectory. A U-turn to [a] less competitive economy. A U-turn to unsafe communities, a U-turn on jobs,” Zaidi said. “That’s a really big deal. It’s very problematic.”

Zaidi said the angst from young people reflects their experiences, with wildfires turning the skies orange and policymakers’ actions failing to meet the urgency their generation believes is needed to keep global temperature increases in check. But he said part of his role is ensuring the administration’s actions meet the call of science, and that Biden is committed to his goal of slashing U.S. emissions in half this decade, relative to 2005 levels.

“I’m impatient with the fact that it takes time to turn over infrastructure,” Zaidi said. “But you have a president that’s getting after every single, solitary aspect of how we get business done – and doing it in a time when he’s also orchestrating the biggest economic comeback the country has ever seen.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: agenda; chief; climate; scam
Not worrying too much about young people angst.
1 posted on 06/07/2024 6:27:30 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I thought it was the fella who served in Viet Nam. I’d love to be the guy who tells them they’re all fired. Will it happen?


2 posted on 06/07/2024 6:34:38 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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3 posted on 06/07/2024 6:37:05 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Libloather
Screwball GIFs - Find & Share on GIPHYAli Zaidi | Climate One
4 posted on 06/07/2024 6:40:54 PM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: Libloather

If what the pollsters say is true it will be the young men of Gen Z that take the final shot and sink the USS Xiden.


5 posted on 06/07/2024 6:47:03 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: Libloather

“youth-led environmental group Sunrise Movement”

They remind me of the snotty, petulant kids in “Wild in the Streets.” No solutions, just complaining and protesting. None of them have engineering degrees and don’t have a clue about how to replace our energy systems. None of them understand that the so-called “green” energy solutions aren’t when you take account of everything needed to make “green” work. None of them understand that it would take all of the world’s GDP for a couple of decades to change over. None of them understand that China and India are not going to go along with their ideas. None of them understand that their “solutions” will bankrupt the USA, make us impoverished, and cause us to lose the next world war.


6 posted on 06/07/2024 6:49:29 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Libloather

“Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’… Keep those gov’ grants rollin…!”


7 posted on 06/07/2024 6:57:17 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Libloather
"he’s also orchestrating the biggest economic comeback the country has ever seen.”

Sure thing, Bucko.

8 posted on 06/07/2024 7:01:49 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Time may come when the environmentalists are forced to realize there is no environmental crisis, there is the One who handles that & He knows what it is that He does best.


9 posted on 06/07/2024 7:20:20 PM PDT by oldtech
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The Starve America agenda.


10 posted on 06/07/2024 7:20:30 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: Gene Eric

Ali is obviously an anti-Free-America nitwit of the first order. The feckless bum should be fired this evening.


11 posted on 06/07/2024 7:29:16 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: chief lee runamok

Is he a muzzie? That would explain everything.


12 posted on 06/07/2024 8:08:43 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Libloather

I don’t want just a u-turn, I want to pop the clutch and roll the coal.


13 posted on 06/07/2024 9:08:25 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Libloather

The Thermo Police in charge of climate change will have make up some very insane rules before Biden exits the stage.


14 posted on 06/08/2024 7:01:24 AM PDT by Vaduz
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