Within the first week of his term, President Joe Biden put out multiple executive orders to undo what former President Donald Trump did during his presidency.
One of those orders was for the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Agreement: an international accord focused on reducing the effects of climate change. In Sept. of 2016, former President Barack Obama put out an executive order to join the Paris Agreement, and Trump rescinded it seven months later. This was one of the worst things done in the Trump administration.
The Paris Agreement holds countries responsible for their impact on climate change, and it is important for the United States to be involved. According to the Union Of Concerned Scientists, the U.S. has the second highest carbon emissions in the world, right under China.
It is important that we take a look at our habits and how they are destroying the world around us. Instead, people in the U.S. are too busy arguing if climate change is real. We know that it is from a plethora of evidence and scientific procedures, such as radiocarbon dating polar ice sheets and testing ozone depletion levels.
When we contribute to climate change with our emissions, we effectively destroy the earth. Most people don’t care about the earth, but about themselves. So let me put it this way, we are killing ourselves.
When we deplete resources and destroy habitats, we take away more time from the human population on earth.What happens when we are gone? The earth will repair itself and live for thousands, if not millions of more years.
Biden making the executive order to rejoin the Paris Agreement helps everyone because we are already late. By 2020, each of the 196 parties involved in the Paris Agreement were supposed to submit a plan for nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
This agreement also helps less developed countries make sustainable changes that could be too expensive otherwise. The U.S. loves to meddle in militaries that are not ours in countries we do not need to be in, so this is no different in that sense. The difference is that we are helping for once instead of hindering.
