Biden warns climate change deniers are 'condemning' Americans to 'dangerous future' during Earth Day event

President Biden commemorated Earth Day by telling a crowd successful Triangle, Virginia that anyone who denies nan impacts of ambiance alteration is "condemning nan American group to a very vulnerable future."

The president’s comments were made while speaking astatine Prince William Forest Park, wherever he announced 2 programs he expects to use nan situation and nan American people.

The first programme Biden introduced is to thief low- to middle-income families dealing pinch nan inflated costs of power bills.

Under nan president’s caller "Solar for All" plan, nan Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will put $7 cardinal from nan Inflation Reduction Act, to trim power costs.

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Biden said ambiance alteration deniers are "condemning nan American group to a very vulnerable future." (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Biden said nan reward will supply 60 grants crossed nan state to states, territories, municipalities, tribal governments, and belief nonprofits to create programs that alteration low-income and disadvantaged communities to use from residential solar.

"It’s a large deal," he said. "This caller Solar for All programme intends that 900,000 households, 900,000, will person star connected nan rooftops for nan first time, and soon millions of families will prevention complete $400 a twelvemonth successful inferior bills, and that’s $350 cardinal nationwide."

Another programme Biden introduced is nan American Climate Corps, which will supply complete 2,000 positions successful 36 states. The president said Americans tin now use to go nan first members of nan American Climate Corps and get paid to conflict ambiance alteration by learning really to instal star panels, conflict wildfires, rebuild wetlands and winterize homes, among different things.

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President Biden said connected Earth Day that MAGA Republicans scheme to repeal nan Inflation Reduction Act, which provides backing for programs focused connected cleanable power and cleanable water. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden said he has seen nan "devastating toll" of climate alteration firsthand, saying since becoming president, he has flown complete each nan awesome fires and "thousands upon thousands of acres" that were burned level by wildfires.

He besides said he met pinch families whose homes were "wiped disconnected nan map" by hurricanes, floods and storms past year, adding that past twelvemonth Earth faced nan hottest time connected record. In conscionable 2 years, he said, earthy disasters and utmost upwind successful America caused $270 cardinal successful damages.

"But folks, contempt nan overwhelming devastation successful reddish and bluish states, there’s still those who contradict ambiance is successful crisis," Biden told nan crowd. "My MAGA Republican friends don’t look to deliberation it’s a crisis… they really want to repeal nan Inflation Reduction Act, which really provides nan backing for a immense mostly of these projects and rotation back… protections for cleanable aerial and cleanable water.

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President Biden and erstwhile President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

"I’m not going to spell into it now, but I’m not making it up. It’s real. Just perceive to what they say," nan president said. "Anyone successful aliases retired of authorities who willfully denies nan impacts of ambiance alteration is condemning nan American group to a very vulnerable future, and nan world, I mightiness add. They want to return america backwards, sideline our workers, fto China and others lead nan title for cleanable energy. I’m determined, perfectly wished we move forward."

Before nan president walked up to nan podium, respective lawmakers said astir Earth Day, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who thanked Biden for launching nan American Climate Corps.

Ocasio-Cortez besides said astir Franklin D. Roosevelt inspiring nan thought done a measure he put guardant successful 1933, to create nan original Civilian Conservation Corps. Ocasio-Cortez called Roosevelt’s measure revolutionary successful nan aftermath of nan Great Depression, arsenic it put complete 3 cardinal young group to work, created 711 caller authorities parks and improved nan nation’s nationalist lands.

President Biden referred to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arsenic "the Congress lady," while speaking astatine an Earth Day celebration.  ((Left:REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/Right: REUTERS/Yves Herman)

At nan opening of Biden’s speech, he acknowledged comments made by Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez.

"Bernie, you’re nan best. And Representative Ocasio-Cortez of New York. You know, I learned a agelong clip ago, perceive to that lady. Listen to that lady. We’re going to talk much astir different portion of nan world, too, really quickly," Biden said successful a cryptic way.

Despite what looked to beryllium foreshadowing earlier his speech, nan president ne'er said of different parts of nan world, isolated from for erstwhile he mentioned nan U.S. rejoining nan Paris Agreement.

In his closing statement, Biden said astir Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, which Biden said, "was referenced by nan Congress lady," failing to mention to Ocasio-Cortez by name.

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Biden quoted Roosevelt, saying, "more important than nan worldly gains, will beryllium nan civilized and belief worth of specified work."

"He ever put it successful discourse and went beyond conscionable what nan contiguous request was," Biden said. "I’d opportunity nan aforesaid holds existent for what we’re doing present coming arsenic a civilized imperative, and I’ve ne'er been much optimistic astir America’s future."