This new ad from the Biden/Harris team is being claimed by many to be the first presidential campaign ad focused solely on climate change. It is devoted to climate change and its effect on the future of food, described from the perspective of farmers. The farmers in the ad plead that we need to address climate change now, so that they and their grandchildren can continue to produce food for Americans and the whole world. Although the YouTube video is dated Oct 3, it seems to have been released today.
Here is a recent tweet from Joe Biden about Climate change and the destructive policies of the trump administration -
Biden’s plan on clean energy and climate change is at joebiden.com/…. Here is a video summary of the plan -
A little not-so-well-known fact about Biden and his track record on climate change -
The Delaware senator’s first climate change bill, introduced in 1986, died in the Senate. But the following year a version of Biden’s legislation survived as an amendment to a State Department funding bill. President Ronald Reagan went on to sign it into law.
The upshot of Biden’s Global Climate Protection Act was to call on the president to set up a task force to plan how to mitigate global warming.
Biden spoke about the bill on the Senate floor in January 1987 in terms that seem uncannily familiar to present-day warnings. He discussed, among other ills, the threat to human habitat resulting from melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels.
"Life on this planet exists only under highly specialized circumstances," Biden said during a Senate session. "Indeed, so special are these circumstances that even a small rise in temperature could disrupt the entire complicated environment that has nurtured life as we know it."
The measure also called on the president to make climate change a higher priority item on the U.S.-Soviet agenda.
"President Reagan told Secretary General Gorbachev ‘that if we had an invasion from Mars, both sides would put aside our differences.’ While not an exterrestrial threat, global warming could prove no less dangerous," Biden said.
Biden’s amendment became law when Reagan signed the Foreign Relations Authorization Act on Dec. 12, 1987.
"I think Biden’s 1986 bill was the first introduced in Congress on this issue," said Sean Hecht, an environmental law professor at UCLA. "He gets credit for that."
This issue is a winner this year; Biden and Democrats are on the right side of history. Let’s chip in and save the planet.