It’s Climate Week at the United Nations in New York, and the U.N. General Assembly on Sunday voted to phase out fossil fuels, at the same time abandoning its sustainable development goals of eliminating poverty and hunger.
That’s because no nation has ever eliminated poverty and hunger without fossil fuels.
Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t commented on phasing out fossil fuels, but President Joe Biden is all in favor.
On Monday, just after bragging about progress with the U.N.’s sustainable development goals before the General Assembly in New York, he said, “We’ve taken the most ambitious climate actions. We’ve moved to rejoin the 2015 Paris Agreement on Day One. And today, my country is finally on track to cut emissions in half by 2030 … .”
His goal is to decarbonize the electricity grid by 2035 and achieve net zero by 2050.
But those…
