Irish Examiner view: Biden sets new carbon deadline for America

US president says we are in a “decisive decade” and that America will cut carbon emissions by 50%-52% below 2005 levels

US president Joe Biden speaks to the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, from the East Room of the White House on Thursday, April 22, in Washington. Picture: Evan Vucci/AP

In the long ago, before greenhouse gases were an issue, a certain type of writer argued that only four subjects deserved a poet’s serious attention. 

Were that discussion held today, the range of subjects might be even narrower; which, because we are human, brings its own difficulties.