(CNSNews.com) - President-elect Joe Biden identified "four crises" he plans to tackle when he is sworn in as president.
He spoke up after his running mate Kamala Harris told CNN's Jake Tapper, "Our agenda's pretty progressive." She alluded to climate change.
"The irony is, we have four crises," Biden said:
The first crisis is COVID. Second is the economic (sic) close to recession and maybe worse. The third crisis is the inequity that exists, in the racial inequity that exists. And the fourth crisis is climate. Ironically, they all work for one another.
The first time the American people looked out there and said, my lord, I guess all those things I heard about -- and even though I don't live in neighborhoods that have large black populations -- I didn't realize police actually do those kinds of things like I saw with George Floyd.
Or say that before I announced my climate plan, I knew what it would be, I went to all the major unions, saying, guys this is what I'm going to do but let me tell you why it's in your interests. So what happens? We have labor and CEOs on a big board up here in a zoom. And I said, we're going to build 550,000 charging stations. And what happens?
You have General Motors saying we want to own that market, and it's going to reduce greenhouse gases gigantically. We're going to be in that position. And you hear labor saying, yeah, okay, we're all for that. We going to have jobs. We're going to make money making the country green.
And so it's not so much -- people, when they stop -- and everybody told me, even my own team told me ten months ago, you're not going to get unions to go along with you. Well, yes they are, because they now realize they're not going to be left out. And they are the way to grow the economy.
And you had folks like Moody's and Wall Street saying my (climate) plan I put together will create 18.6 million jobs. And a trillion dollars. A trillion dollars additional growth in the GDP.
So, I mean, I've always argued that if you help the people, like a $15 minimum wage nationally, it raises everybody. It raises the entire community. The wealthy do better, the middle class do better, and the poor have a way up.