Published 01:57 IST, October 11th 2020

US Election 2020: Greta Thunberg backs Biden's presidential bid in rare political tweet

In a rare political tweet, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has urged US citizens to vote for Democratic candidate Joe Biden in US Election 2020.

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In a rare political tweet, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has urged US citizens to vote for Democratic candidate Joe Biden in US Election 2020. Her tweet came in reply to an article published in Scientific American which touted that voting for President Trump would be to kill science. Substantiating it furr, 17-year-old global icon tweeted that upcoming presidential election is above and beyond party politics,

In her tweet, Greta said that from a climate perspective, Trump’s ministration's effort was “very far from eugh” and asked people to "Just get organized and get everyone to vote #Biden."

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Biden to create environment-friendly jobs

Joe Biden and his running mate Kamla Harris have reiterated environmental concerns throughout ir campaign and promised definitive actions against climate change. Speaking at Vice Presidential debate, Harris said that when Joe Biden is elected, US will re-enter 2015 Paris Accord that has been abandoned by Trump ministration. 

Harris also ded that Biden has plans to create more jobs and some of m would be about clean and renewable energy. California Senator said that Biden "believes in science" but Trump ministration has a “pattern” of denying conclusions me by experts. 

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Kamala Harris said, “Do you kw, this ministration took word science off website, and n took phrase climate change off website? We have seen a pattern with this ministration, which is y don’t believe in science.”

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01:57 IST, October 11th 2020