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    Why Biden calls Trump a ‘climate arsonist’ – video explainer

    Humanity is said to have just 10 years left to start seriously tackling the climate crisis before passing the ‘point of no return’ with multiple-degree temperature increases, rising sea levels and increasingly disastrous wildfires, hurricanes, floods and droughts predicted.Scientists say the US is far off the path of what is necessary for the nation and the world to avoid catastrophic global heating, particularly as in the past four years Donald Trump has shredded environmental protections for American lands, animals and people.As part of our climate countdown series, the Guardian’s Emily Holden looks at the issue and examines why the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, calls his rival a ‘climate arsonist’ Revealed: the full extent of Trump’s ‘meat cleaver’ assault on US wildernessSign up for Fight to Vote – our weekly US election newsletterContinue reading… More

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    'Kills all the birds': Trump and Biden spar over climate in TV debate – video

    The closing moments of the final presidential debate focused on climate change. Joe Biden stressed the need to expand sources of renewable energy while again disputing Donald Trump’s claim that he intended to ban fracking, which he does not. ‘I know more about wind than you do,’ Trump retorted, drawing an exasperated laugh from Biden. ‘It’s extremely expensive. Kills all the birds’
    Humanity has eight years to get climate crisis under control – and Trump’s plan won’t fix it
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