President Joe Biden thinks that global warming is a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear war, The New York Post reported.
The premier expressed his views on Tuesday while addressing a group of supporters in New York.
President Biden thinks global warming is a bigger existential threat than nuclear war
“[Global warming] is the single most existential threat to humanity we have ever faced, including nuclear weapons,” said Biden, while giving a speech to donors in NY.
It’s uncertain if the 80-year-old president went into more detail about his justification. Only a portion of Biden’s statements were made available to reporters, and there was no video coverage of the private gathering.
The US president’s views contradict his earlier statement. Not less than four months ago, he casually told a different group of supporters in NY that the world was coming close to nuclear “Armageddon.”
“First time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have the threat of a nuclear weapon if in fact things continue down the path they are going,” Biden stated as he raised funds for Senate Democrats.
“We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Biden said at the time. “We’ve got a guy I know fairly well, [Russian President Vladimir Putin]. He’s not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming.”
Experts say large-scale nuclear conflict would cover the planet in deadly radiation
There are sufficient nuclear weapons in existence to demolish the majority of people on the planet. According to experts, a large-scale nuclear conflict would cover the planet in deadly radiation, bring in a nuclear winter with reduced sunlight and colder temperatures, and kill the majority of survivors.
On the other hand, there are no immediate predictions that the earth will become completely uninhabitable, despite some scientists’ claims that global warming is connected to more extreme weather phenomena like hurricanes.
By 2100, sea levels could rise 50 centimeters as a result of global warming, according to the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This would submerge some coastal regions, including small island chains, while necessitating expensive mitigation elsewhere.
