U.S. To Rest of World: Go Die
Yes, people of conscience are nauseated by the Unites States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord and our using the 23rd U.N. Climate Convention as a venue to promote the continued and expanded use of fossil fuels. But there are positive consequences to this disgusting behavior: it’s galvanizing every other country on Earth to become even better citizens than they would have been in the absence of against our callous disregard for the health and safety of the world’s people.
French President Emmanuel Macron has stepped up to the plate and offered to cover the contribution that U.S. has elected to default upon, saying that the world’s climate mitigation efforts “will not miss a single euro.”
From what I’ve read, I’m not the only American to have traveled to France, only to be snubbed by the people there. Yet it’s not hard to imagine why these people have so little respect for us: the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, and the only country on Earth to flip off the world’s people with a combination and indifference and utter contempt.
Craig,
Perhaps that explains why rench President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating has dropped far below President Trump !
Most Europeans always understood the hypocrisy and empty symbolism of the Paris Accord, as would anyone who actually read the document.
( although, I do like the picture 🙂 )
Trump was quite correct to remove the US from a basically anti-American and absurd document. No one in Europe, (not even the German Greens ) has any regard for the deeply flawed Paris Accord.
To have every country on Earth (except one) come together and decide on a common goal is anything but symbolic.
Craig,
Well that’s not quite right is it ?
Of 195 nations, 175 signed. More importantly, they didn’t ‘come together” . Each nation signed for different reasons and benefits.
The Accord is so loosely constructed and possesses so many let out clauses, it’s always obviously a simple politically correct symbolic gesture, with no real practical method of enforcement.
The document is one of those important sounding, but useless manifesto’s so beloved of the politically expedient. Simply a way of looking energetic while placating activists.
The Paris Accord has even less value than that other ‘symbolic ‘ accord the “Holy Alliance”.