'None of this is happening in a vacuum.' Joe Biden links climate change with the pandemic: 'Recent studies showed air pollution is linked with increased risk of death from COVID-19. Our economy can't recover if it can't build back.'
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The Bobcat Fire burns through the Angeles National Forest on Sept. 11, 2020, north of Monrovia, Calif. "The science is clear, and deadly signs like these are unmistakable — climate change poses an imminent, existential threat to our way of life. President Trump can try to deny that reality, but the facts are undeniable. We absolutely must act now to avoid a future defined by an unending barrage of tragedies like the one American families are enduring across the West today," Biden wrote.
Biden and Trump have offered vastly different visions when it comes to tackling the issue of climate change.
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