Climate Defiance, a climate change activist group, is protesting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2023 on Saturday. President Joe Biden is set to speak at the event.
The group on Saturday said that it “rolled up to the 30th Annual White House Correspondents Garden Brunch in DC to demand truth in reporting.”
“No one can call Joe Biden a ‘climate-friendly president’ while he’s wrecking the planet w/ new oil + gas projects,” the group tweeted.
Organizers of the group said that they plan to blockade the area near the dinner on Saturday. They allege that Biden promised to end fossil fuel extraction on public lands but failed to deliver.
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“Number one, no more subsidies for fossil fuel industry. No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends,” Biden said then.
Climate Defiance accuse Joe Biden of committing ecocide. It is defined as the “devastation and destruction of the environment to the detriment of life” by the European Law Institute.
A video of Biden at the 2020 Presidential debate shows him calling for “no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period,” on federal lands. The President last month approved a project – Willow Project – which will have ConocoPhillips to drill oil in northwestern Alaska.
“We came of age amidst superstorms and fires and crumbling ice shelves. We trusted our President – but he sold us out to fossil fuel CEOs. So we will rise. We will build the future we deserve. And we will be unstoppable,” the group tweeted along with the video.
