Biden wasn’t running for election in 2016, so I don’t expect that he made any campaign promises that year. He has over time put money into a “moonshot goal” of addressing cancer. In part due to this, US cancer death rates have been falling for decades:
Government paid for research into causes and treatments
Government efforts to discourage smoking (a major cause)
Government efforts to encourage vaccination against HPV (a major cause of cervical cancer)
Government restrictions on pollution (a cause of a variety of forms of cancer)
Government improving access to health care so people can get screening and treatment
Right, his 2016 promise had nothing to do with a campaign. It was due to one of his kids dying of cancer and it understandably deeply effected him, spurring his crusade.
I’m not saying it doesn’t help, but we’re still a long ways from curing cancer, despite the great progress we’ve made in reducing deaths. And to me, promising to end climate change is also one of those things that’s so vastly complicated and far outside of one country’s control, especially since so much of the problem is caused by private industry which is fueled by consumer demand.
I will be extremely happy to be proven wrong. And I should emphasize that my previous comment is not me saying we shouldn’t do anything. I’m just worried that these efforts aren’t going to go far enough.
Here’s the deal… Nobody thinks he’s going to fix climate change, or that it’s possible that could even be accomplished by one administration in one term. When someone gives a speech to rile up their base and get voters emotionally invested, they don’t say things like, “We’re going to take steps to slow climate change”, because that’s boring. They go out there and make big statements like, “we’re going to take climate change, and kick its ass” because that’s what people want to hear and that’s what’s going to help get votes. As voters we then hope that steps are taken towards accomplishing that goal, knowing that climate change is going to get cured over night.
Biden wasn’t running for election in 2016, so I don’t expect that he made any campaign promises that year. He has over time put money into a “moonshot goal” of addressing cancer. In part due to this, US cancer death rates have been falling for decades:
Right, his 2016 promise had nothing to do with a campaign. It was due to one of his kids dying of cancer and it understandably deeply effected him, spurring his crusade.
I’m not saying it doesn’t help, but we’re still a long ways from curing cancer, despite the great progress we’ve made in reducing deaths. And to me, promising to end climate change is also one of those things that’s so vastly complicated and far outside of one country’s control, especially since so much of the problem is caused by private industry which is fueled by consumer demand.
I will be extremely happy to be proven wrong. And I should emphasize that my previous comment is not me saying we shouldn’t do anything. I’m just worried that these efforts aren’t going to go far enough.
Here’s the deal… Nobody thinks he’s going to fix climate change, or that it’s possible that could even be accomplished by one administration in one term. When someone gives a speech to rile up their base and get voters emotionally invested, they don’t say things like, “We’re going to take steps to slow climate change”, because that’s boring. They go out there and make big statements like, “we’re going to take climate change, and kick its ass” because that’s what people want to hear and that’s what’s going to help get votes. As voters we then hope that steps are taken towards accomplishing that goal, knowing that climate change is going to get cured over night.
Would have a lot more substance if we didn’t keep hearing the great news about how we’ve extracted record amounts of oil during his administration.