The president says 'whole generation is damned' if we don't fix climate change despite his administration's approval of Willow oil drilling project in Alaska
segment, Penn also addressed the president’s actions on drilling and oil production, and the response from “young people who want you to continue to be their champion but might not think that you’re going far enough or fast enough on climate.”
While Biden explained that it was a “matter of transitioning” and that “it’s not like you can cut everything off immediately,” many Democrats on social media have pointed out the hypocrisy of the President’s decision. As rumors of the project’s approval leaked from the White House days earlier, Sen. Ed Markey
on Twitter, “You can’t ask other countries to forego their fossil fuels if we keep green lighting projects here in America.”
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