Joe Biden began his first trip as president in the American West on Monday, September 13, to hammer home his arguments on climate change and large investments but also, something rarer, to descend into the political arena.
Main purpose of this trip: California, a Democratic stronghold that he had not visited since his election, to support Governor Gavin Newsom, facing a referendum which could, in theory, cost him his post.
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Prior to that, Joe Biden made a stopover Monday morning in the Republican state of Idaho to visit a firefighting coordination center. After a presentation on the forest fire situation, still catastrophic this year and worsened by the effects of global warming (81 large blazes active across the country on Monday), the president met parachute firefighters and other elite firefighters . Ax in hand, he was able to discover the equipment that these professionals use on a daily basis.
“The reality is, we have a problem with global warming,”
Joe Biden said in Boise, capital of Idaho.
“Things are not going to go back to how they used to be. It's not as if we could go back to the past situation ”
,he insisted.
13,000 firefighters mobilized in California
Monday morning, in California alone, more than 13,000 firefighters were fighting on the ground against fifteen large-scale forest fires, such as the "Caldor Fire" which has been burning for two months.
Their number and intensity have multiplied in recent years in the western United States, with a marked lengthening of the fire season.
According to experts, this phenomenon is particularly linked to global warming: the increase in temperature, the increase in heat waves and the drop in precipitation in places form an ideal incendiary cocktail.
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Joe Biden then took off for California and its capital Sacramento. After a stopover near Los Angeles, he will be in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday to report on his major investment plans. Because Joe Biden is strong in protecting the United States and greening the American economy with investment projects whose cumulative amount could approach $ 5,000 billion - provided Congress votes in the fall.
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