06-05-2017, 10:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-05-2017, 10:46 PM by Eric the Green.)
(06-05-2017, 10:27 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(06-05-2017, 10:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Paris Accord is a great opportunity; we got China on board to commit to reducing its emissions, and that had been elusive for a while. The USA also, even under Obama, had been dragging its feet and complaining it might not be a good enough deal for us. America owes the world a lot toward cleaning up the mess that it did the most to create. Trump just wants out of it so that his car, coal and oil company buddies can make more money giving us dirty cars and fuels. Trump's decision is all about the profit of the bosses, and only the bosses. Luckily there are plenty of blue state governors and mayors who don't subscribe to the retrograde thinking found only here in Red America, and are willing to observe and promote the agreement. The REAL America will keep it.
There is no reason why two surging great powers like China and India should not have to make sacrifices on par with the US. They have the technology. But of course they want to dump cheap products. To do that they need to cut corners. To hell with that. This is another rare point I agree with Trump on. We should not compete with one arm tied behind our back when others have both arms at the ready.
I don't trust anything the Drump says. Just because Drump says the agreement hurts the dirty businesses that he promotes and supports, doesn't mean there's any competitive disadvantage for the USA. Observing the agreement would help put the USA in the lead again in alternative energy, which is where the jobs and the future are. Now without the agreement, which requires the USA to switch to the alternative energy industry that's surging and growing, China will be able to forge further ahead of us and dump their cheaper solar panels in our country. I'm sure the agreement required China to make more sacrifices in their dirty energy sector than they would have made without it. Fortunately they have committed along with Europe and India to observe the agreement, because they know the lives of their people are at stake.
Always and completely, the only people at all hurt or inconvenienced by the switch to green energy and the Paris Agreement, are the CEOs and investors in the dirty energy and transportation economy. The ONLY ones. Yet our Republican Party president and congress cares ONLY about them.