Smart move, politically.
Many won't like it but his voters will. In spades. Rust-belt voters see the Paris Climate deal as a job killer and many ldon't like the idea of global governance of anything.
Plus, Obama never got the treaty ratified in the Senate and so it was never Constituional to begin with. He just signed it as an "agreement." Agreements carry no weight, here, when they are done circumventing the Constitution.
I think the whole Paris Accord is really big global government and big business using it to insulate themselves from competition. I am usually very suspect of treaties where everyone seems to think it is a good thing. Especially when it makes government and big business each happy.
Americans on their own are buying solar and electric cars and recycling more. The trend is already strong. I don't need Al Gore and Leo DiCaprio telling me I need to be taxed more while they pay "carbon taxes" to companies they own, themselves and fly 50,000 miles per year on their private jets.
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Sure your great-grandchildren are screwed but it put a few more pounds in your pocket, so must've been worth it!
Oh no .... wait .......
And trump is a steaming nipsy
He is right because he is Trump and he is going to make America great again, by restoring all the land stolen from the native aboriginal peoples by the European settlers.
Am I understanding this correctly?
Interesting post. It's possible that a lot of people reading it may not know what you do for a living. They may not have read the Wine thread
May I ask if you accept that man-made global warming is a fact? If "yes", how would you think it should be tackled, given that it is by definition a "global" problem?
USA
Syria
Nicaragua
Make of that what you will
EDIT: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/31/why-nicaragua-and-syria-didnt-join-the-paris-climate-accord/
In the case of Nicaragua, the argument actually went the other way. As world leaders gathered in the French capital in November 2015 to reach an agreement on fighting climate change, Nicaragua's lead envoy explained to reporters that the country would not support the agreed-upon plan as it hinged on voluntary pledges and would not punish those who failed to meet them. That was simply not enough, Paul Oquist argued.
“We’re not going to submit because voluntary responsibility is a path to failure,” Oquist told the website Climate Home on Nov. 30. “We don’t want to be an accomplice to taking the world to 3 to 4 degrees and the death and destruction that represents.”
I read an article in Newsweek or something about the make up of his cabinet. They're all billionaires. Your article and this doesn't surprise me
Cede the entire new economy in renewable energies and clean emissions to the Europeans and Chinese.
Dumber than a bag of shit.
In fact the only thing dumber than Trump are the inbred morons in Appalachia who think they are going to get their 1960s coal mining jobs back.
UK's Tories are centre right.
Completely incomparable.
I hope those 23 million people that might be chucked off healthcare don't live near coal plants or oil pipelines.
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1jMKgoodLyqKL
Brilliant.
I have never seen all world leaders so united on one issue, in fact it seems like the backing and unity for the Paris Accord has increased since his decision to leave the agreement.
Its clearly all part of the 'art of the deal', obviously...