NEW YORK, United States | Joe Biden, visiting New Jersey and New York on Tuesday to assess the damage from deadly storm Ida, called for urgent action on climate change.
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The American president first went to New Jersey, neighboring New York State, very affected by the disaster.
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“For decades, scientists have warned us about extreme weather events. Now we are living them. (…) We can’t really go back, but we can prevent it from getting worse, ”Joe Biden said during a meeting with local officials at a rescue operations center in the county. from Somerset.
“We’re at one of those inflection points where we have to act, or we’ll have really, really problems,” he added.
Devastating floods on Wednesday evening left 47 people dead in the US megalopolis and its region, causing widespread damage.
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The images of the New York subway invaded by torrential rains have been around the world.
Joe Biden had already made the trip last Friday to Louisiana, the first American state ravaged by Ida, which then had the power of a hurricane.
The Democratic President did not fail to underline the urgency for the United States to invest massively in the face of climate change, in particular in their aging infrastructure.
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Joe Biden has set up two major investment programs, one in infrastructure (roads, bridges, electricity network) and the other in social benefits (education, health, etc.), for a cumulative amount that could close to $ 5 trillion.
It still needs to get them adopted by the American Congress, by achieving a difficult reconciliation between the interests of certain elected representatives of the Republican opposition, the demands of the far left fringe of the Democratic Party, and the concerns of elected centrists of his own camp faced with the amount of planned spending.
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