Joe Biden said in his State of the Union Address that the United States has made the “Most Significant Investment Ever in Climate Change”

President Joe Biden gave the 2023 State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, February 7, 2023, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 118th United States Congress. Part of his speech for his plan for America was dedicated to addressing the climate crisis. He referred to the climate crisis as an “existential threat” and stated that the United States has an “obligation” to confront it. He said our nation, “at last,” is stepping up to the challenge. Biden said that we would still need “oil and gas for a while.”

President Biden went on to say that we are going to need oil for at least another decade.

Joe Biden says we’re only going to need oil for at least the next ten years. Ten years?! He’s gone off the rails here. Everyone reading this is going to need oil for the rest of their life: pic.twitter.com/7dAZrnspAD

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 8, 2023

There is an effort to radically transition our economy and our lives in the coming years. It is coming, whether we want it or not. The Biden administration is taking on the fight against the so-called climate apocalypse head-on. He talked about new jobs, new infrastructure, new energy industries, and new comprehensive, ambitious, and swift action for all of America.

This is not just happening here in the United States. This is happening on a world-wide scale, as other nations are also pushing to reduce global emissions. The goal of sustainability is part of Pope Francis’ concept of a “global ecological conversion,” a term used in Laudato Si’ #5, that describes profound changes in how individuals and society think about and behave in the natural world. It is a spiritual and political call to transform our world and to recognize the pantheistic interdependence of all living things.

Pope Francis contends that an ecological conversion is required to address the global environmental crisis, which he refers to as both a moral and spiritual crisis and an ecological crisis. This was the same message pushed by Joe Biden, who essentially made the same arguments during his State of the Union speech. That is why Joe Biden called for the end of gas and oil within the next decade and why billions of dollars have been allocated to promote sustainable development through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The IRA, according to Joe Biden, is the “most significant investment ever made in climate change, ever.” In other words, President Joe Biden has done more than anyone else to promote Laudato Si’ policies.

Overall, Joe Biden’s message to combat climate change in his State of the Union speech is a warning that a number of policies are coming that are designed to control various aspects of our lives, including our spending, energy usage, free speech, travel, and many other human behaviors. This will lead to the censorship of voices or media deemed by the government to be spreading misinformation. This will also lead to initiatives like car-free Sundays designed to reduce our carbon footprints. But what is most concerning is that this will ultimately result in the coming Social Credit System, a framework that assigns citizens a score based on their behavior, which can affect employment, housing, banking, education, and buying.

And, according to Laudato Si’, climate change policies have the potential to significantly alter how we spend our Sundays. Human behavior is what is being altered as nations seek to adopt more sustainable practices, and Sunday rest by law fits in with the type of control that will be implemented to address the climate crisis:

“Satan puts his interpretation upon events, and they think, as he would have them, that the calamities which fill the land are a result of Sunday-breaking. Thinking to appease the wrath of God, these influential men make laws enforcing Sunday observance. They think that by exalting this false rest day higher and still higher, compelling obedience to the Sunday law, the spurious sabbath, they are doing God service” (Manuscript Releases, vol. 10, p. 239).

“And then the great deceiver will persuade men that those who serve God are causing these evils. The class that have provoked the displeasure of Heaven will charge all their troubles upon those whose obedience to God’s commandments is a perpetual reproof to transgressors. It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday sabbath; that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced; and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity” (The Great Controversy, p. 590).

“Men in responsible positions will not only ignore and despise the Sabbath themselves, but from the sacred desk will urge upon the people the observance of the first day of the week, pleading tradition and custom in behalf of this man-made institution. They will point to calamities on land and sea—to the storms of wind, the floods, the earthquakes, the destruction by fire—as judgments indicating God’s displeasure because Sunday is not sacredly observed. These calamities will increase more and more, one disaster will follow close upon the heels of another; and those who make void the law of God will point to the few who are keeping the Sabbath of the fourth commandment as the ones who are bringing wrath upon the world. This falsehood is Satan’s device that he may ensnare the unwary” (Christian Service, p. 155).

“Those who honor the Bible Sabbath will be denounced as enemies of law and order, as breaking down the moral restraints of society, causing anarchy and corruption, and calling down the judgments of God upon the earth. Their conscientious scruples will be pronounced obstinacy, stubbornness, and contempt of authority. They will be accused of disaffection toward the government. Ministers who deny the obligation of the divine law will present from the pulpit the duty of yielding obedience to the civil authorities as ordained of God.” (The Great Controversy, p. 592)