RT.com July 15, 2023
US Vice President Kamala Harris listed reducing the population
as one of the Biden administrations areas of green investment
during a speech in Maryland on Friday. The White House has since
claimed she misspoke.
When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and
reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and
drink clean water, Harris told the audience at Baltimores
Coppin State University, to rapturous applause.
While Harris did not correct herself on stage, a White House
transcript of the speech struck the word population and
replaced it with pollution.
The VP made the odd remark as she revealed the Biden
administration had made $20 billion available for
community-based climate projects, with $12 billion of that
earmarked for historically-disadvantaged areas part of Washingtons
efforts to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach
net-zero by 2050.
The funding will go to a national network of nonprofits,
community lenders, and other financial institutions to fund tens of
thousands of climate and clean energy projects across America,
Harris said. It was set aside for green energy initiatives under
the Inflation Reduction Act as part of the Environmental Protection
Agencys Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Harris critics took aim at the alleged gaffe on social media,
suggesting she was saying the quiet part out loud, while
critics of the man-made climate change hypothesis argued cutting
population was its true aim.
Are you the population she wants to reduce? Rep. Thomas
Massie (R-Kentucky) asked his followers.
Commentators including Megyn Kelly and Foxs Harris Faulkner
questioned Harris fitness to succeed President Joe Biden after the
VP stumbled through multiple public appearances earlier this
week.
During a Wednesday panel discussion on AI at the White House,
she informed the panelists that the technology was kind of a
fancy thing, telling the assembled experts, First of all,
its two letters. It means artificial intelligence, before
embarking on a rambling attempt to explain machine learning. During
a roundtable on transportation for people with disabilities the
same day, she observed, the issue of transportation is
fundamentally about just making sure that people have the ability
to get where they need to go. Both comments were widely mocked
on social media.
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