CNN projected Joseph R. Biden Jr. as elected the 46th President of the United States. Winning the White House and denying President Trump a second term. It is official, Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States. After 4 years of climate denial, disrespect for human rights, racist, sexist presidency, a US president will now move into the White House who acknowledges the climate crisis for what it is. The greatest danger of our time. How serious he is about it, we will see. Five years ago, the US, along with 194 other countries, signed the Paris Convention and agreed to limit global warming to between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius. But so far things look bad. The climate crisis is escalating at an alarming speed. We are practically further away from Paris than ever before. In other words, we have turned our livelihoods into a real threat to life. But the deciding factor is not that things look bad. The deciding factor is that it does not have to stay that way. The election was not such a big decision between a bad candidate and an even worse one. We are faced with a risk eight times as high for heat record summer. Periods of dry weather, crop failures, forest fires as far as the horizon, hurricanes, tropical storms with never before seen destruction. This is a worst-case scenario and it will not happen in the distant future but today. It has long been reality for people in Puerto Rico, Mozambique, Bangladesh, but also in Brandenburg, California, to name just a few. And that is only a 1.2 degree world. And what else is there to come when the warming has reached 1.5 ,2 3 degrees? Unimaginable. This is an information that would make a huge difference if more people were to become aware of where we are right now. We are experiencing a state of the world that people have never experienced before. Climate change affects us all and we must do something. We only have this one world and we should not, no, we must indeed take care of it. This election victory for Biden and the impeachment of Trump means good for the world.
