PARIS AGREEMENT
Trump’s stance on climate change turns his slogan into ‘America Alone’
On June 1 US President Donald Trump announced that his administration was withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement. The world’s largest economy is taking no responsibility for its historical emissions — a deeply immoral, reprehensible act. The speech on the Rose Garden lawns was full of the illogical statements people have come to expect from Trump. He is entirely mistaken in the belief that pulling out of the Paris Agreement will "make America great again". It will do quite the opposite. The trend away from fossil fuels is irreversible. No matter what campaign promises were made to Rust Belt states, the decline will continue. Rather than helping coal communities make a transition into a low-carbon economy, Trump makes fake promises. They are fake because he cannot deliver on them and because he does not really care about relatively poor Americans; his real base is the rich. Wind and solar photovoltaic have passed parity with coal. Instead of positioning the US for a stake in the...
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