Will the Biden Administration Have Better Climate Change Policies Than the Last Bunch?

They'd darn well better...

TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2021: Happy New Year, Climate Strikers! Today happens to be a big day here in the United States: the Georgia Senate runoff elections are wrapping up, and we'll soon find out if Democrats will control both houses of Congress, as well as the incoming administration in the White House. Tomorrow, of course, will be an even bigger day, with an even bigger (though avoidable) headache afoot: the day that a joint session of Congress meets to confirm the Electoral College votes that will certify the incoming administration of Joseph R. Biden/Kamala D. Harris, President No. 46, with the added joy of America's VERY FIRST FEMALE VP--and it's about bloody time! Of course, right-wing loyalists of the power-obsessed Donald Trump will attempt to object and overturn this result; but even if they had a legitimate case to overturn the election result (which they emphatically do NOT), they don't have the numbers to do so in either house of Congress, even assuming said objections even come to a vote.

So...Whew. But that's not the major story here. What climate activists the world over want to know is: Will the new administration have better policies in place to combat climate change and carbon percentages than the last administration even thought about? They'd bloody-well better have, especially considering that the much-vaunted Pandemic Lockdown Effect has not been as strong as hoped in reducing worldwide carbon emissions, although said effect was at least somewhat noteworthy, in at least some parts of the world. Future soil cores, ice cores, and tree rings have been taking note of the nearly year-long changes in atmospheric carbon content, as I wrote in some new song lyrics a few months ago.

At any rate, United States environmental policy has been a mess over the past few years under the Trump Administration, which they attempted to justify by reporting improved employment figures which supposedly resulted from deregulating industry pollution standards. Why did nearly half the U.S. states form an alliance to remain within the Paris Climate Accord? Well, because President Trump insisted on pulling the country out of the Paris Agreement in June 2017, pending a requested re-negotiation of the accords that would be fairer to U.S. industry, workers and taxpayers (in other words, a highly watered-down version of the original Climate Agreement that polluting industries wouldn't have to worry about quite so much)...