Joe Biden, the president of the United States, alarmed the world with a statement he gave in a speech on global warming in the state of Massachusetts.
On the controversial issue, the US president hinted, apparently by a slip, that he has cancer.
“Climate change is a clear and immediate danger, as well as an existential threat to our nation and the world. It is why I and so many others I grew up with have cancer and why for a long time, Delaware had the rate of highest cancer rate in the nation,” he said.
Although the White House has not yet made an official statement to clarify the issue, the media in that country assure that Biden does not suffer from this disease, and that his statements were due to a lapse.
Global warming “is literally, not figuratively, a clear and immediate danger … The health of our citizens and our communities is literally at stake,” Biden said at a former coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts, in the process of reconversion to generate wind power.
“Because Congress is not doing what it should,” the 79-year-old Democrat lamented, “I will use my executive prerogatives.”
The president, however, has not yet declared a “state of climate emergency” as some members of his party are calling for, a move whose impact is unclear but which could give him additional political powers.