With his Build Back Better behemoth effectively dead in Congressional water, Biden is now being pressured to enforce the British Malthusian green agenda through executive action. Preceding Biden’s speech on the climate in Somerset, Massachusetts Wednesday, there were calls by activists and members of Congress to invoke a formal national climate emergency—which would unlock federal resources for the green agenda. However, while Biden did use the term “emergency” in his speech, he did not issue a formal declaration.
Using the recent spate of hot summer weather across the country as proof of some sort of coming doom for humanity, Biden’s speech was full of alarmist language like “clear and present danger… code red for humanity (a reference to language from the IPCC’s recent report)… emergency,” and “climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world.” In the end, though, it was all just empty rhetoric, without the teeth of a formal national climate emergency.
Biden did proclaim that he was “making the largest investment ever — $2.3 billion — to help communities across the country build infrastructure that is designed to withstand the full range of disasters we’ve been seeing up to today – extreme heat, drought, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes.” This $2.3 billion—which, although large, still pales in comparison to the epic trillions of the Build Back Better bill—is supposed to be allocated to “Protect Communities from Extreme Heat and Dangerous Climate Impacts,” “Lower Cooling Costs for Communities Suffering from Extreme Heat,” and “Expand Offshore Wind Opportunities and Jobs,” according to the fact sheet provided by the White House.
