Bernie Sanders: The US and China must unite to fight climate change, not each other

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The general population doesn't seem to want to work with distant outside nations. Just the replies to an article you see like this on social media see people unwilling to state what Bernie Sanders is saying. It's true... like the pandemic, climate change is impact the whole word, but people want to say it is one local political party or another. The faith in humanity coming together over a common positive cause I hope has reached bottom and can improve.

Bernie i love ya man, but this is the same China now selling Weapons to Russia. China is only interested in what makes its ruling party $$$.

Yea well that’s out the window because of decades of unhealthy competition and racism.

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary If the United States, China and other industrialized countries do not come together to dramatically decrease greenhouse gas emissions, the world we leave our children and future generations will become increasingly unhealthy and uninhabitable.

Tragically, the cooperation required to address this existential threat is being undermined by hawks in both the United States and China who are moving us toward a disastrous cold war.

This progress has led the IEA to forecast that renewables will surpass coal to become the largest source of global electricity generation by early 2025, much faster than previously predicted.

Just a few months later, with the nuclear crisis as the background, President Kennedy proposed to the Soviet Union an arms reductions plan which would change the confrontational dynamic that had brought the world to the brink.

Go talk to the people in southern Africa who are starving because of the terrible drought and floods they are experiencing or farmers around the world who can no longer grow their crops because of water shortages.

Perhaps most importantly, go talk to the hundreds of millions of young people in every country on earth who are losing hope, wondering whether they should even have children of their own, given the enormous challenges the climate crisis poses for a normal life.

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