President Joe Biden during a Tuesday address called climate change “the ultimate threat to humanity.” Then he took a cross-country flight on a private jet to meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping, whose communist country emits more carbon than the rest of the developed world combined.
President Joe Biden during a Tuesday address called climate change “the ultimate threat to humanity.” Then he took a cross-country flight on a private jet to meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping, whose communist country emits more carbon than the rest of the developed world combined.
Biden’s remark came during a White House address on the “climate crisis,” which the Democrat said requires America to take “more action than ever” to combat. After finishing his speech, Biden boarded Air Force One to travel to San Francisco ahead of a meeting with Xi. That flight emitted more than 130,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis—a carbon footprint that the average American would need more than four years to produce.
In the buildup to his meeting with Xi, Biden stressed the need to “change” America’s relationship with China “for the better,” and his administration on Tuesday released a joint statement in which the United States and China “reaffirm[ed] their commitment to work jointly and together … to address the climate crisis.” But Xi has long pledged to lower his nation’s emissions, only to do the opposite.
