The largest voter turnout ever and, to Joe Biden, the largest number of votes in US history made American democracy work. Thank goodness.

Like many millions of people (around the world), I have been watching the all-time record cliffhanger historic US election.

There are many amazing things about this election. 

So, CAN the United States be a force for good when it comes to protecting Mother Earth? It depends on the environmental promises of each of the Parties, but also on the integrity of the US democratic system.

Still being reported as great climate news, on September 22, 2020 at the United Nations, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that his country “would aim to become carbon neutral, in the battle against climate change, by 2060.”

The October 14, 2020 statements made by Judge Amy Barrett on climate change are the worst I have read for many years and the worst possible in 2020.

Many Americans may not know it, but the biggest issue in the US election is global climate change. That's because it will hurt the lives of all Americans (with many already affected) and leave the legacy of a disastrous country for their children. And that’s because atmospheric CO2 (the amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere) from burning fossil fuels is at a 23-million-year high and accelerating — increasing at a faster and faster rate. While the Republican Trump administration has opened up America for more fracking, neither presidential candidate has a plan to stop burning fossil fuels.

Great news: We can replace all today’s fossil fuel energy with zero-combustion renewable energy in 5 years. But the bad news is, our governments are sabotaging that transformation.

The greatest threat ever to human survival — yes, our species — will not feature highly in this year’s US presidential election contest. The climate and planet Earth did not feature big in the big US national convention speeches. The Republican speeches failed to recognize climate change at all and the Democrat ones all but failed to recognize the climate emergency.

We are recording the global climate change killing of the living Earth. 

Massive fires are burning in the Amazon and the Arctic for the second record year in a row. Judging from the NASA FIRMS satellite world fire map, 1,500 miles of fires are burning right across the Amazon, and fires are burning across 6,000 miles of the Siberian Arctic. Nothing about global warming is so definite, so visible and so terrible as the burning of these great forests.

The nine facts in this article are the facts that most other environmental groups are afraid to tell you. Once you understand them, you will be better prepared for what is happening now and what is coming.