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Trump to announce U.S. will exit Paris climate deal
- simplicio 9y agoSeems a poor choice for a guy who owns a bunch of property on a low-lying coastal island.
- eduren 9y agoliberal tears > diplomacy and leadership I don't know how many years of this I can take.
- ue_ 9y agoWhat do you mean?
- Meegul 9y agoI think he's referring to the polarization of America's parties, where there's now a sizable group on both sides who'd rather see the other side upset than their own side happy.
- millzlane 9y agoI don't think the extremists from either side will ever see the irony over fighting to keep liberty from one another. Michio Kaku was right about human kind destroying itself. He just overestimated on the time it was take. It's not only the terrorist who don't want a type 1 civilization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NPC47qMJVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NPC47qMJVg
- jjaredsimpson 9y agoI don't even think it's a choice. Trump and co don't really have a coherent vision, so each policy decision doesn't build on the next. There is no unified Trump doctrine only kneejerk spasms. The problem is the structure of American govt and institutions themselves. Trump has no incentive to get good at the game of politics as it was played for the last 200 years. Actions aren't justified, motivations aren't explained, and there is no attempt at persuasion. It's all my team, your team, zero sum foolishness.
- notadoc 9y agoHow, specifically, will exiting this deal help?
- supernintendo 9y agoIt won't.
- towndrunk 9y agoHow will staying in it help? Seems like none of the countries who have signed implemented anything. More like a feel good measure more than anything.
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- dragonwriter 9y agoIt will help avoid averting major crises. Authoritarianism needs crises to advance. So, that's how (and who) it will help.
- EliRivers 9y agoAn opportunity for China to demonstrate some world leadership and take advantage of some diplomatic opportunities to push their international good-guy agenda; be interesting to see where they go with this.
- woodandsteel 9y agoThis is in part a way for Trump to pursue his goal of reviving the American coal industry. Coal is a 19th century technology. At its peak it was used for heating, steel-making, electricity, and transportation with trains and steam boats. In the 20th century it got replaced by diesel for transportation, greatly reduced for steel-making with the continuous casting process, and gradually replaced in heating by natural gas and electricity. More recently it is getting replaced in electricity generation by natural gas and renewables. You know, if you want your economy to be strong, you need to keep up with new technologies, instead of trying to hang on as long as possible to old, obsolete ones.