Geezuz this pisses me off.  I can’t claim to be any kind of expert on the Paris Climate Agreement,  but it seems to me a lot of people are missing the tragic point of United States withdraw.  With all the chaos and insane inhumane conflict going on in the world,  the one thing that every country on earth has come to an agreement on is the planet is starting to fall apart and we need to do something about it.  The Paris Climate Agreement was an affirmation of that fact, and miraculously, every county but two has gradually decided to indeed- do something about it.  Every country is all in except Nicaragua, which did not participate because the governing body of that county thought the agreement did not go far enough, and Syria.  Enough said there.  Ok.  Most of us know that.  But our president decided to pull out because it was a “bad deal” for the country, and he feels obligated to stay committed to a ridiculous campaign promise.

First of all, it’s hardly a deal.  Yes there are financial commitments, but there is nothing binding about them.  There are no non-compliance penalties attached to them and likewise there are not any for failure to meet emission goals.  Sure, if developed countries do not reach goals, they look bad and insincere.  There will probably be a few, maybe many, that fall short.  But one of the reasons the agreement was devised was so that we could help each other out.  That is the point.  This accord is such a good idea there are even sub-states, businesses and individuals who contribute to it.  Our climate is in some serious shit and this president can not seem to get that through his head.  I know he has some clue that there must be something out of whack, because he tried to get Scotland to build a sea-wall to protect his precious coastal golf course in that country.  Reasonable people in charge there told him he could stick that idea straight up his ass. What in the fuck is with this guy and his obsession with walls?

And he is supposed to be the big jobs creator.  I can not believe he does not understand by now that the jobs future rests conspicuously in the area of renewable energy.  That fact comes up time and time again during media discussion.  He watches TV day and night.  We are setting ourselves up for failure, to sit back and live in a century gone by.

I can argue, you can argue back.  Every side has its own set of projections and statistics.  The real point is, the leaders of basically every country in the world accept the fact that there is some very bad shit going on within our environment that we need to get a handle on, and this country has the one leader who is either too dense to realize that fact, or is so self-absorbed  his pathetic idea of the right thing to do is thumb his nose at the rest of the world in order to pacify his political base, and I am willing to bet there are even many within that loyal group that  believe it is borderline insanity to not participate in any world-wide movement that exists solely for the purpose of securing the survival of mankind.  Nothing about withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement puts “America First.”  it relegates America to a position far behind China or India, France or Germany, or any country that is more than happy to engage in responsible forward thinking and innovation.  Apparently there were several people in advisory positions with a capacity for common sense, like Secretary Tillerson, that tried to dissuade the president from committing this blunder.  But this kind of recklessness has Steve Bannon’s name stamped all over it.  Unfortunately we are being governed by  someone who is easily manipulated, often by his own hyper-inflated ego or the last person he talks to.

Trump with the Marionette Master Lurking in the Background