Summary
Trump has announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, citing a focus on domestic energy production and rolling back Biden-era climate policies.
This move, which can be completed in one year, will align the U.S. with nations such as Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only UN-recognized countries outside the global pact.
Critics warn it undermines global climate efforts, ceding leadership to China, which has aggressively expanded green technologies.
Trump pledged to boost fossil fuels while continuing nuclear power investment.
All of this effort to stay in the past will only ensure America is not a world power in the coming years. If you aren’t at the forefront of green energy you are at risk of becoming the very fuel you drill.
We’ve already let China own the market for renewable energy, EVs, high speed rail, etc this gives them four more years to consolidate their gains without competition.
I really think the point is to weaken us to irrelevance against Russia. Thing is, this military just dont disappear.
In 3 years, some green-energy country is going to invade the sandy dust-bowl North American continent to use our land for wind, solar, and algae-based bio-fuels. We might fight at first, but we’ll be too fat or sick or both to actually do anything about it.
When we finally emerge from our state of extreme foot-shootery, we’ll look around and realize what’s happened: American exceptionalism has won the day again! And then we’ll invade some country with oil and talk about how smart and rich we are.
extreme foot-shootery
Leoparded face
A purely symbolic gesture. The USA didn’t actually have to withdraw from the accords before it could ignore the accords, in which case it would have plenty of company.
It’s insane to me how the rest of the world has to put up with our elections system. Every 4 years we have a dude with a whole new world of different views, and those poor countries have to keep changing their lives every 4 years. lol
Please understand that this is not directed at you personally, but fuck you. Sincerely, the rest of the world.
Edit because I can’t just leave it at that: I’m furious at the US but I also despair for all of the innocent people (Americans and others) who are going to suffer as a result.
100% understand how you feel.
Yep. Fuck us.
Oh don’t you worry, we’re well and truly fucked
In doing so, the United States will join a tiny club of countries outside of the global consensus
The US is proudly outside of the global consensus on many issues and standards. Many, if not most Americans, believe that we are different, special, exceptional. We don’t join the rest of the world, the rest of the world joins us, whether they want to or not.
And for some reason the rest of the world tends to think Americans are arrogant assholes. I know lots of nice Americans but they’re just not as loud as the not-nice ones.
Related, I just went to the comment section of a french-translated video of Trump’s inauguration (admittedly uploaded by a conservative french journal, Le Figaro), and all of the comments were dithyrambic. It’s extremely depressing. Makes you wonder, how can we work against ourselves like that? where are we even going?
