The Global Climate Order Teeters Under Second Assault by Trump
www.bloomberg.com
Trump's second exit from the Paris Agreement is coming at a far shakier time for climate action, with rising populism and corporate retreat adding bigger risk to the US pullback.
  • Lugh@futurology.todayEnglish
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    23 days ago

    China is the global leader now when it comes to the energy transition, America is just going to become more irrelevant on the world stage.

    By the end of Trump’s term, the world of huge gas guzzling fossil fuel cars is just going to look sad and out of date. Meanwhile the Green Energy transition it’s the largest industrial project in human history. The failed orange businessman who bankrupted a casino, is just handing all the trillions of dollars of future revenue to China.

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    23 days ago

    Not defending Turnip, but at this point the Paris Agreement is almost pointless as we surpass the 1.5ºC. Governments around the world did very little over the last 10 years to prevent the current state of affairs.