“Dr. Raj V. Rajan serves on the Board of Directors of non-profits Climate Generation, Fresh Energy, and Environmental Initiative and is a Fellow of the Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota. Views expressed are his own.
In his opening COP21 comments in Paris, former President Obama noted that “the USA not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it.”
Of course, he got labeled the apologizer-in-chief for this and other historically accurate statements that got into ‘why the US should lead efforts to mitigate climate change’. Fast forward to yesterday, when President Biden addressed the Leaders Summit on Climate that he hosted virtually. The eternal political pragmatist, President Biden began his comments with “When people talk about climate, I think jobs. Within our climate response lies an extraordinary engine of job creation and economic opportunity ready to be fired up.” He is past the point of asking or answering the ‘Why?’. Instead, he immediately went to the ‘What,’ particularly what it means to the average American.”
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Rajan, Raj V. India News 24 April 2021.